Tag: Conrad Shawcross
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Jacquiline Creswell – interview: ‘When I first sited art in Salisbury Cathedral, I was accused of turning it into a theme park’
When Creswell joined Salisbury Cathedral as arts curator, she was verbally and physically abused. As she explains, it was her first challenge, but not her last. Here, she talks about bringing world-class art to the cathedral in her 12 years…
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Joseph Hillier – video interview: ‘Figurative sculpture in a public space presents a real opportunity to stir something in people’
Sculptor Joseph Hillier talks about his most ambitious project to date, its design, and what it takes to construct a bronze that weighs 9.5 tonnes
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Andrew Rogers: I AM–ENERGY
Among Expo 2017’s vast complex of pavilions stands Andrew Rogers’ I AM–ENERGY. A sculptural feat of engineering, it spirals triumphantly upwards to more than 10 metres, confronting visitors like a graceful ballerina en pointe
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Conrad Shawcross: ‘It’s created a skin for the surface of this building’
The artist explains his use of the moiré effect in designing an optical cloak for a tall industrial building on the Greenwich Peninsula in south-east London
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Conrad Shawcross: ‘It looks like a wonder of the world’
Conrad Shawcross talks to Studio International about his new public sculpture, Paradigm, and shows us round his studio and the fabricator as the final pieces are being put together.
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Conrad Shawcross: The Dappled Light of the Sun
As well as his epic, sprawling installation that greets visitors to the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, you can see miniature sculptures by Conrad Shawcross at the Victoria Miro Gallery
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Metamorphosis: Titian 2012
Human history, and by extension the history of art, is a history of transfiguration, of translation, of constant modification. The assumption that we live in a perpetual state of metamorphosis, a continual shifting of one element of reality in relation…
