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Durham
United Kingdom

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Carr is an artist working with patterns in nature, natural processes and phenomena. She completed a foundation at Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design and a ceramics degree at Camberwell College of Art. She has exhibited work at the Fondation Cartier in Paris, in collaboration with Jean-Paul Gaultier. She has been commissioned work from 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.

She has her own artistic practice but often collaborates with musicians and other creatives to produce music videos, performances, site-specific live events and installations, all with her distinctive poetic and other-worldly aesthetic.

She frequently exhibits internationally and works in collaboration with cross-disciplined experts including sound designers, chemists, geologists, cosmologists and theoretical physicists. Her practice is predominantly science based and experimental in nature and includes drawing, sculpture, kinetic works, photography, video and new media. Of particular focus is the boundary between art, science and technology. She spent six months at the artists’ collective HEIMA, in Seyðisfjorður, Iceland, as an artist in residence and mentor. She had a Leverhulme funded residency, ‘Sculpting with Light’, at Durham University, investigating medieval and modern cosmology in collaboration with a physicist, historian and cosmologist. She is currently working on new projects, and kinetic and interactive sculptures with a particular focus on phase changes, smart materials and new technologies. She is a fellow at The Institute of Advanced Studies working on an interdisciplinary project called Material Imagination to collaboratively produce biological smart materials.