Skip to navigation | Skip to search
No photo credits available.
No photo credits available.
No photo credits available.
Recently elected a Royal Academician, Conrad Shawcross has established a career as a Renaissance man; an artist whose fascination with science has led to extraordinary works that fuse beauty with big ideas, often in the form of elaborate machines.
His latest work, Timepiece, is a kinetic light sculpture that transforms the main space of Camden's Roundhouse into a sort of giant sundial. It is a meditation on time, and the ways that human beings have quantified it from the ancient world to today.
In the video above, Conrad Shawcross explains the principles behind the work.
RA Magazine's blog is compiled by members of the editorial team plus invited guest bloggers from the Royal Academy and beyond. Get in touch here.
All comments on this post - (1 comment)
Who knew all that about the number 12? Interesting film and also interesting to learn that Conrad Shawcross is a new RA - is he the youngest artists to be elected RA? Thanks to this blog I will definitely go to Roundhouse to see the work.
Posted on: August 20, 2013 1:12 AM by Sarah Greenberg