DIRECTORY 2025

Alexandra Carr | Sculpture, Installation

Alexandra Carr makes responses to natural phenomena including magnetism, light and ice structures. She collaborates with world-leading researchers, including volcanologists and theoretical physicists, employing diverse and experimental methodologies such as plant growth, crystallization, and now fire. Raising questions about the nature of reality and our place in the cosmos, Carr invites the viewer on a journey of awakening and enlightenment. Captivated by our quest to know the unknown, see the unseen, and exist in the spaces in between, Carr presents a fleeting comprehension of an unreachable place and state of being, present but not properly understood. At first glance, Carr's aesthetic is elegant and sedate. On closer inspection, a subtle order and mechanism becomes apparent. Carr generates a slow drawing in of the audience, not to view an image or a moment, but to observe change over time.

Carr exhibited work at the Fondation Cartier, Paris, in collaboration with Jean-Paul Gaultier, been commissioned work by seminal musicians Radiohead, was shortlisted for the Arts@CERN COLLIDE International Award 2016, and was longlisted for the Aesthetica Art Prize 2017, 2019, and 2020. Carr is a member of The Royal Society of Sculptors. Carr exhibits internationally, including the Verket Museum, Sweden, and the artists' collective HEIMA, in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland, as an AiR and mentor. Carr was awarded a Leverhulme residency in Durham in 2017 entitled 'Sculpting with Light', investigating medieval and modern cosmology in collaboration with historians and cosmologists. She 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. In 2019, Carr was AiR at Durham University, working on themes of environment, place, and classical elements. In 2020, she was a fellow at The Institute of Advanced Studies working on the interdisciplinary project, Material Imagination, to produce biological smart materials.

www.alexandracarr.co.uk
@studioalexandracarr