Glyndebourne 90th Anniversary Poster by Conrad Shawcross

Conrad Shawcross

Harmonic Carving (4)

2024

Digital print on Monte Carlo paper 300gsm

90 x 60cm

Edition of 150

Posters are not numbered

Conrad Shawcross’ Harmonic Carving (4) has been produced using a harmonograph; a now defunct, Victorian-era machine that traditionally uses swinging pendulums to draw visualisations of movement. Shawcross has adapted a harmonograph and feeds the device with a musical chord, making the pendulums move in tandem and apply or scratch marks on the paper. The result is a vivid, energetic amalgamation of colour and sound incorporating the imagery of black holes.

Conrad Shawcross RA (b. 1977) lives and works in London, UK. He studied at the Ruskin School of Art, Oxford, UK; Slade School of Art, University College, London, UK and Chelsea School of Art, London, UK. He has exhibited at leading institutions in the UK, including The Royal Academy of Arts, London; Saatchi Gallery, London; Barbican, London; Whitechapel Gallery, London; Grundy, Blackpool; Hayward, London; Turner Contemporary, Margate. He has exhibited internationally at Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR; 55th Venice Biennale, Venice, IT; Kunsthal Rotterdam, NL; ArtScience Museum, Singapore; Auckland Art Gallery, NZ; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, IE; Sharjah Art Foundation; UAE; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, AU.

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