Repost from @royal_sculptors • Alexandra Carr @studioalexandracarr works with patterns in nature, natural processes and phenomena. She completed a foundation at Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design and a ceramics degree at Camberwell College of Art. She has exhibited work at the Fondation Cartier in Paris, in collaboration with Jean-Paul Gaultier. Car has been commissioned work from seminal musicians Radiohead, and was shortlisted for the Arts@CERN COLLIDE International Award 2016 and longlisted for the Aesthetica Art Prize 2017, 2019 and 2020. She exhibits internationally and works in collaboration with cross-disciplined experts including chemists, geologists, cosmologists and theoretical physicists. Her practice is science-based, experimental in nature and includes drawing, sculpture, kinetic works, photography, video and new media. Of particular focus is the boundary between art, science and technology. She spent six months at the artists’ collective HEIMA, in Seyðisfjorður, Iceland, as an artist in residence and mentor. Carr had a Leverhulme funded residency, ‘Sculpting with Light’, at Durham University, investigating medieval and modern cosmology in collaboration with a physicist, historian and cosmologist. She is currently working on kinetic and interactive sculptures with a particular focus on phase changes, smart materials and new technologies. She is a fellow at The Institute of Advanced Studies working on an interdisciplinary project called Material Imagination to collaboratively produce biological smart materials. Raising questions about the nature of reality and our place in the cosmos, Carr invites the viewer on a journey of awakening and enlightenment. Captivated by our quest to know the unknown, see the unseen and exist in the spaces in between, Carr presents a fleeting comprehension of an unreachable place and state of being, present but not properly understood. Through the manipulation of natural phenomena as media Carr provokes change in the object and the viewer’s perspective in order to open a window into a world unknown. #sculpture #contemporarysculpture #glass #light #medievalcosmology (at Durham, Durham) https://www.instagram.com/p/CPQdlC4lwXx/?utm_medium=tumblr