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Shawcross, Conrad
1977 London, lives in London (UK).

venue: casa Ciriza

Conrad Shawcross sculpts nervous systems and exoskeletons into complex anatomical studies and instruments devised to comprehend the infinite. Responding to an interest in science and rational systems, Shawcross creates multi-faceted machines that deny function while being conscious of the complexity and dimensions of time. Circadiun (Loop System 3) (2004) is a floor sculpture made from one continuous spiral of wood that perpetually turns onto itself. From a distance, it appears stationary, but, as the viewer approaches the work, s/he realises that is it moving through itself. As a skeletal structure, there is no coherent interior or exterior, top or bottom, middle or end, challenging what appears to hold some function against the notion of time.

curriculum:
curriculum:
MFA, Slade School of Art, University College, London, 2001.

BA, Fine Art, Honours, Ruskin School of Art, Oxford (UK), 1998.

Foundation, Chelsea School of Art, London, 1996.

Selected individual exhibitions
The Nervous Systems. Entwistle, London, 2003.

Selected group exhibitions
New Blood. The Saatchi Gallery, London, 2004.

After Life, Death: Remembrance. Redundancy. Reanimation. Bowes Museum, County Durham (UK), 2004.

Dead Game. Museum 52, London, 2003.

It was Bigger than All of Us. Prenelle Gallery, Canary Wharf, London, 2002.

Fame and Promise. 14 Wharf Road, London, 2002.

New Contemporaries 2001. Camden Arts Centre, London; Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Sunderland (UK), 2001.

Engine II (Communicating at an Unknown Rate). The Old Armory, Harrow Road, London, 2001.

Engine I. Dollard Street Studios, Vauxhall, London, 2000.

 
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