Alexandra Carr
Alexandra 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 was recently shortlisted for the Arts@CERN COLLIDE International Award 2016 and longlisted for the Aesthetica Art Prize 2017 and 2018. 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 and video. Of particular focus is the boundary between art, science and technology. She spent six months at the artists’ collective HEIMA, in Seyðisfjorður, Iceland, sonifying the Aurora Borealis as an artist in residence and mentor. She was subsequently documenting her works in a castle in Co. Galway, Ireland, before returning to London to resume her practice. She was recently based at Durham for her 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.
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Lee Mackenzie
Lee Mackenzie is a published writer and poet, focusing on themes of Degrowth, Deep Ecology, place and person-hood. His work has been published in the New European newspaper, Pulp Poets Press, Nine Muses Press, REFLECTIONS press and Dempsey and Windle. He also has experience of writing and producing a number of podcasts for broadcast on Roundhouse Radio in Camden. He writes a blog on the nature of the artistic process and performs regularly at spoken word events and festivals. He leads a variety of poetry writing workshops and writing walks at venues across London and Durham and is a member of the Forest Poets’ Poetry Stanza.
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He has adopted the moniker the ‘Post Growth Poet' to outline his values of empathy, self-sufficiency and critical-thought.
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