Conrad Shawcross
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Conrad Shawcross (born 1977) is a British artist. He is best known for complex wooden, mechanical sculptures that mix philosophical and scientific ideas.
He received his education at the Chelsea School of Art, the Ruskin, and the Slade School of Art, University College London.
Shawcross' work came to prominence as part of the 2004 New Blood exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery at London's County Hall. He exhibited a gigantic Heath Robinsonesque wooden contraption, a working loom producing over 20 thousand metres of rope every week.
In December 2004, Shawcross' commission Continuum opened at the Queen's House, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. The installation explored time and exploration as well as reflecting the architecture and design of the 1638 house, England's first Classical building. The principal piece is a large wooden structure, a torus of twelve loops, described by Shawcross as a conceptual model of the day. Two other new sculptures, Pre-retroscope II and Pre-retroscope III, tell the story of two sea voyages undertaken by Shawcross in Cornwall, in wooden kayaks he constructed.
Shawcross is the son of the writers William Shawcross and Marina Warner.
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