Conrad Shawcross

...specialises in wooden mechanical sculptures based on philosophical and scientific ideas. Wooden sculpture by Conrad Shawcross in Basel, Switzerland Shawcross received his education at Westminster School, the Chelsea School of Art, The...

In this article: London, Slade School of Art, Chelsea School of Art, Westminster School, University of Oxford, University College London, The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, and Odyssey

...a thick, multicoloured rope as they go, like giant mechanical spiders spinning a web. This is Chord by the young English sculptor Conrad Shawcross. As with Balka's installation, or Gormley's, it is art as experience: at no charge, it...

In this article: Antony Gormley, Tate Modern, Damien Hirst, and Carsten Holler

...an honorary doctorate (DLitt) from the University of Oxford on 21 June 2006. In 1971 she married William Shawcross, with whom she had a son Conrad Shawcross, though they later divorced. Her first book was The Dragon Empress: The Life and...

In this article: Marina Sarah Warner, Virgin Mary, London, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Mythopoeic Award, St Mary's School Ascot, Booker Prize, University of Oxford, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, and University of Essex

This Conrad Shawcross sculpture can be seen in the Ministry of Justice It has emerged the Government spent more than half a million pounds on artwork over the last year. Works by artists including Tracey Emin and Andy Warhol were...

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...in London, for display in the new British Embassy in Madrid. A further GBP118,142.13 was spent on Axiom, a new installation by Conrad Shawcross, the sculptor son of the royal biographer William Shawcross. The steel and wood latticed...

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...poem "Wolfe Tone." The poet Eilean Ni Chuilleanain writes of the Winnowing Oar in her poem "The Second Voyage." In 2003 the artist Conrad Shawcross created a work, Winnowing Oar, based on the object. Sculpted in oak, spruce and ash, it is...

In this article: Odysseus, Poseidon, Eilean Ni Chuilleanain, Michael Longley, Seamus Heaney, and National Maritime Museum

Navigation - link to other main sections from here Conrad Shawcross: the carpenter's greatest hits Conrad Shawcross builds huge, frequently kinetic sculptures out of wood, metal and high-flown concepts For somebody who spends much of...

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...made of steel and wood, called Axiom and costing GBP42,500, installed in the atrium of the building and created by the sculptor Conrad Shawcross, who is the son of royal biographer William Shawcross and writer Marina Warner - a series of...

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...others describe their works of art that transformed their worlds for ever... Bidisha, Kitty Empire, Philip French, Ekow Eshun, Conrad Shawcross and Alex Clark 'The moment I saw her work was like a sucker punch to the guts' Bidisha on Nan...

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