Alexandra Carr is an international, scientific, experimental artist working on a wide range of interdisciplinary projects in partnership with Oxford University and Durham University. The work make responds to natural processes and phenomena, such as magnetism, light, ice structures and dark matter. Carr’s practice involves collaboration with experts and world-leading researchers including engineers, biologists, geologists, cosmologists and theoretical physicists. The works produced are experimental in nature and include drawing, sculpture, kinetic works, photography, video and new media. Of particular focus is the boundary between art, science and technology.

Studying at Central Saint Martins and Camberwell College of Art, Carr has gone on to exhibit work at the Fondation Cartier in Paris, in collaboration with Jean-Paul Gaultier, been commissioned work by 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. Carr is a member of The Royal Society of Sculptors.

Carr frequently exhibits and works internationally including the Verket Museum, Sweden and project spaces in Iceland, spending six months at the artists’ collective HEIMA, in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland, as an artist in residence and mentor.

Carr was awarded a Leverhulme funded residency in Durham 2017 entitled ‘Sculpting with Light’, investigating medieval and modern cosmology in collaboration with physicists, historians and cosmologists. Carr has presented papers at Oxford and Durham Universities and MIT, and has taken part in panel discussions at Sotheby’s and the Science Gallery Dublin.

www.alexandracarr.co.uk
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