Conrad Hartley Pelham Shawcross (1977) is a British artist specializing in mechanical sculptures based on philosophical and scientific ideas. Shawcross is the youngest living member of the Royal Academy of Arts.
Conrad Shawcross uses diverse materials and mediums to create ambitious structural and mechanical installations informed by geometry, philosophy, physics, and metaphysics. Feigning usefulness and theoretical rigor, Shawcross’s enigmatic machine-like installations, rich with scientific references, are filled with paradox, absurdity, and whimsy. In 2011, Shawcross was an artist-in-residence at the Science Museum in London where he created Protomodel, an installation of five projects displayed alongside the museum’s scientific exhibits that paid homage to the museum's mathematics section on his practice, variously referencing models, functions, and instruments
Shawcross has also experimented with ideal geometries and topologies; these constructions are conceived as systems, sometimes modular, sometimes mechanical, which could be theoretically extended infinitely into space. In these and other sculptures, Shawcross pays tribute to some of the great pioneers and analysts, and considers specific moments or figures from the past.
Recently, Shawcross has developed the scale of his practice, taking on architectural spaces with work that combines epic scope and poetic grace. Timepiece, 2013 was a major new commission for the Roundhouse in which Shawcross transformed the iconic main space of this historic London building into a vast timekeeping device. With this work, the artist seeks to turn the familiar clock – with its circular ‘face’ and three ‘hands’ - back into the cosmological, primeval experience it once was.
His work has also been exhibited internationally at institutions including ArtScience Museum, Singapore; IMMA, Dublin; Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand; MONA, Tasmania; the Hayward Gallery, London; Tate Britain, London; Musée d’art Contemporain, Lyon; The Saatchi Gallery, London.
© 2018. All images are copyrighted © by Conrad Shawcross. The use of any image from this site is prohibited unless prior written permission from the artist is obtained.
Conrad Shawcross uses diverse materials and mediums to create ambitious structural and mechanical installations informed by geometry, philosophy, physics, and metaphysics. Feigning usefulness and theoretical rigor, Shawcross’s enigmatic machine-like installations, rich with scientific references, are filled with paradox, absurdity, and whimsy. In 2011, Shawcross was an artist-in-residence at the Science Museum in London where he created Protomodel, an installation of five projects displayed alongside the museum’s scientific exhibits that paid homage to the museum's mathematics section on his practice, variously referencing models, functions, and instruments
Shawcross has also experimented with ideal geometries and topologies; these constructions are conceived as systems, sometimes modular, sometimes mechanical, which could be theoretically extended infinitely into space. In these and other sculptures, Shawcross pays tribute to some of the great pioneers and analysts, and considers specific moments or figures from the past.
Recently, Shawcross has developed the scale of his practice, taking on architectural spaces with work that combines epic scope and poetic grace. Timepiece, 2013 was a major new commission for the Roundhouse in which Shawcross transformed the iconic main space of this historic London building into a vast timekeeping device. With this work, the artist seeks to turn the familiar clock – with its circular ‘face’ and three ‘hands’ - back into the cosmological, primeval experience it once was.
His work has also been exhibited internationally at institutions including ArtScience Museum, Singapore; IMMA, Dublin; Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand; MONA, Tasmania; the Hayward Gallery, London; Tate Britain, London; Musée d’art Contemporain, Lyon; The Saatchi Gallery, London.
© 2018. All images are copyrighted © by Conrad Shawcross. The use of any image from this site is prohibited unless prior written permission from the artist is obtained.
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| Mr Conrad Shawcross |
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| 2001, Yarn |
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| 2001, Yarn |
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| 2002, Measurement and Control for the Infinite |
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| 2003, Skelter |
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| 2004, Inversal |
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| 2004, Winnowing Oar |
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| 2005, Continuum |
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| 2008, Arrangement 2 a-d |
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| 2008, Arrangement 2 a-d |
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| 2008, Lattice Cube Sequence |
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| 2008, Lattice Cube Sequence detail |
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| 2008, Lattice III and IV |
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| 2008, Lattice III and IV detail |
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| 2008, Lattice V (Basel) |
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| 2008, Offcut |
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| 2008, Palindrome |
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| 2008, Pavilion |
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| 2008, Portrait (Thorel) |
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| 2009, Axiom 3 |
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| 2009, Chord |
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| 2009, Chord |
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| 2009, Slow Arc Inside a Cube IV |
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| 2009, Slow Arc Inside a Cube IV |
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| 2009, Offcut (Axiom Tower) |
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| 2009, Slow Arc Inside a Cube IV |
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| 2009, Tetra-Shadow |
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| 2009, Time Rule 221 Minutes |
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| 2009, Time Rule 221 Minutes |
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| 2010, Fraction |
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| 2010, The Limit of Everything |
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| 2011, Arrangement |
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| 2011, Fraction |
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| 2011, Harmonic Manifold 1 (5-4) |
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| 2011, Lattice Cube Sequence |
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| 2011, Lattice VI |
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| 2011, limit of everything |
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| 2011. (Perimeter Study) Arrangement 1 |
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| 2011. Skein Cone |
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| 2011. The Blind Aesthetic |
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| 2012, Canopy Study |
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| 2012, Canopy Study |
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| 2012, Machina |
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| 2012, Pre-Retroscope VIII (Amsterdam Journey) |
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| 2013, Lattice VII |
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| 2013, Plosion 1 (Yellow) |
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| 2013, Seven Days |
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| 2013, The ADA Project |
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| 2013, The ADA Project |
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| 2013, Timepiece |
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| 2015, The Dappled Light of the Sun study |
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| 2015, The Dappled Light of the Sun |
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| 2015, The Dappled Light of the Sun |
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| 2015, Three Perpetual Chord Studies |
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| 2015, Three Perpetual Chord Studies |
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| 2015, Three Perpetual Chords |
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| 2016, Optic Cloak |
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| 2016, Optic Cloak |
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| The Interpretation of Movement. |
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| The Interpretation of Movement. |
gotta comment. have been enjoying your labor for a while, but this guy is really something. so grateful for your endeavor(s)! (had to look up how to spell that). take care man!
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