Conrad Shawcross

Art / 18 Sep 2018

Science and art prove a potent combination in the hands of Conrad Shawcross

What do you know about a tetrahedron? For rarely has a shape responded so strangely to growth, and never has it assumed quite so much importance. The Greek philosopher Plato, writing 2,400 years ago, identified the tetrahedron – a...

Design / 6 Jul 2017

Tony Chambers on reworking ritual and worship for this year’s truly elevating Handmade quest

At this year’s Salone del Mobile, that most sacred of design gatherings, we called the Wallpaper* flock to the Mediateca Santa Teresa, a deconsecrated church on Via della Moscova. And there did true believers, as well as the odd agnostic...

Art / 15 Jun 2017

Man of parts: Conrad Shawcross’ new ‘crazy machine’ spins into St Pancras International

The British artist Conrad Shawcross has a thing about harmony. And not some woolly idea of beauty in balance but harmony proper; the harmony of mathematical ratios and Pythagorean intervals, of chords, secret and otherwise. He sees this harmony, or...

Art / 13 Mar 2017

Artists think inside the box for a charitable selling exhibition

The brief, unusually, was to think not outside but in, on or around the box. And, in the summer of 2016, some 53 internationally renowned artists took up the challenge. The result is Cure3, a selling exhibition of bespoke Perspex...

Art / 8 Dec 2016

Artist’s Palate: Conrad Shawcross’ roadkill Scottish venison and juniper berry stew

Conrad Shawcross’ oeuvre – an out-of-the box blend of engineering ingenuity, precision mechanics, hardcore science and philosophy – sears both memory and imagination like the after image of a lightning strike. Who can forget the moment in 2003 when Charles...

Design / 10 Nov 2016

Editor-in-Chief Tony Chambers recalls 1996, a very good year for champagne and creativity

The 20th anniversary of Wallpaper* this year has called for celebrations of all kinds – among them a staff knees-up for everyone who had ever worked for the brand, a pop-up gallery on Mayfair’s Cork Street, and a panel discussion...

Art / 5 Apr 2016

Conrad Shawcross: exploring the work of British art’s brightest star

The youngish British artist Conrad Shawcross drives a Ford Capri. The closest a British-made car came to American muscle, he loves the ‘physical and visceral’ fun of driving it, the sheer effort it takes to haul its ridiculous nose around...

Art / 1 Apr 2016

Musical mechanics: Conrad Shawcross’ The Ada Project sways in Hong Kong

The Peninsula Hong Kong’s opulent colonial lobby may be famed for its legendary afternoon tea, but it is also fast setting a new benchmark for innovative contemporary art as part of its ’Love Art’ public programme. Its current creative collaboration...

Art / 24 Mar 2016

Waterfront wonder: highlights from Art Basel Hong Kong 2016

As the art world descended on Hong Kong for five days of Art Basel and the dizzying collection of satellite shows that piggyback on the main event, the art market held its breath wondering if the region’s economic slowdown would...

Design / 10 Mar 2016

The W* Global Interiors issue: from SoCal modernism to Teutonic refinement

Welcome to our Global Interiors special, seeking out the best new design and architecture around the world. This year, we focus on six design powerhouses: the Czech Republic, Denmark, Mexico, Singapore, the UK and the USA. Plus, we make a...

Art / 26 Feb 2016

Conrad Shawcross unveils imposing new sculpture for The Francis Crick Institute

The British artist Conrad Shawcross has unveiled a daring, and rather disconcerting, public sculpture for London’s major new centre of science. At an imposing 14m tall, it’s a confident and beautiful piece, at once a triumph of engineering and a...

Art / 15 Sep 2015

British artists frame the landscape at Chatworth for the tenth edition of Sotheby's Beyond Limits

For the tenth edition of Sotheby’s annual outdoor sculpture installation ’Beyond Limits: The Landscape of British Sculpture 1950-2015’, the auction house has invited respected art historian and commentator Tim Marlow to curate an exhibition that celebrates the understated success of British sculpture. Opened...