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Alexandra Carr

Carr works on various interdisciplinary projects in partnership with Oxford University and Durham University. The
work responds to natural processes and phenomena such as magnetism, light, and ice structures. Carr’s
practice involves collaboration with experts and world-leading researchers including volcanologists,
cosmologists, and theoretical physicists. The methodologies employed are diverse and experimental, utilizing a
wide range of media and processes from plant growth, crystallization, and now fire.
Carr has exhibited 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 exhibits and works internationally including the Verket Museum, in Sweden
and project spaces in Iceland, spending six months at the artists’ collective HEIMA, in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland, as
an AiR and mentor. Carr was awarded a Leverhulme-funded residency in Durham in 2017 entitled ‘Sculpting
with Light’, investigating medieval and modern cosmology in collaboration with physicists, 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 and place in connection with the elements and cosmology. In 2020 she was
a fellow at The Institute of Advanced Studies working on the interdisciplinary project, Material Imagination to
produce biological smart materials collaboratively. Carr is currently working on sculptures with a particular
focus on phase changes, organic processes, optics, and origami. In 2021 she completed her largest permanent
commission Solaris Nexum at Technological University Dublin. In 2023 she established Torus Torus Studios, a
joint practice with Colin Rennie, which specializes in public art. In 2024 they unveiled Only Breath, a major
kinetic artwork commissioned by the Science Museum, London, as the centerpiece for the Energy Revolution
Gallery.

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