Biography

Underlying the creative practice of British, interdisciplinary artist Alistair McClymont is a deep concern for beauty and reason. Through artistic experimentation, discovery, and collaboration with scientists, McClymont questions the frontiers between art and science and what it means to be human in an era defined by big science and data driven research.

His work spans a variety of media from sculptural installation, painting, and photography, to video, new media digital art, and the publication of scientific research papers.

Many of his Artworks take the form of direct demonstration or experimentation. By isolating phenomena from the world, McClymont represents and re-evaluates them in novel creative contexts. Concepts are allowed to define the forms they take, and projects are designed to highlight the delicate, generative balance between order and chaos in the very systems used to create them.

For more details click on solo exhibitions, group exhibitions, talks, publications, collections , residencies, press and education.

Solo Exhibitions

2017

Platform, London, UK

2015

The Royal Society, London, UK

2014

The Book and Record Bar, London, UK

2013

CAM Raleigh, USA

2012

No Show Space, London, UK

2012

The Art House Foundation, London, UK

2009

Pageant, Edinburgh, UK

2009

'The Limitations of Logic', Wyer Gallery, London, UK

2007

Paramount Pictures, Wyer Gallery, London, UK

2006

Reception Space, London, UK

2005

Hull Art Lab, UK

Group Exhibitions

2023

Scopitone 2023, France

2023

Over Blown, Edinburgh

2023

SPACE Lab [co-creative art astronomy experiments]

2022

2022 Changwon Sculpture Biennale, South Korea

2022

Distance Gallery

2022

Irisations, Espace Multimédia Gantner, France

2022

Periastra, APT Gallery, London, UK

2021

EUROfusion, Marseille, France

2021

Ars Electronica, There Is No Planet B, Linz, Austria

2020

APT Gallery, London, UK

2019

KIKK Festival, Namur, Belgium

2019

APT Gallery, London, UK

2018

Mozilla Festival, London, UK

2018

V&A, Digital Design Weekend 2018, London, UK

2018

APT Gallery, London, UK

2018

Everything Happens So Much, London, UK

2018

MKH Biennale, Germany

2018

Merge Festival, London, UK

2018

Beyond 2001: New Horizons, LCC, London, UK

2017

Stereolux - Scopitone 2017, France

2017

Uncertainty Playground, London, UK

2017

Espace Multimedia Gantner, France

2017

Digital Makers Collective, Tate Modern, London, UK

2017

Beyond Borders, London College of Communication, UK

2016

MU: Weather or Not, Netherlands

2016

No Show Space: works in series, London, UK

2016

STUK Arts Center, Leuven, Belgium

2015

Pump House Gallery - 3 Branches of the Same Tree, London, UK

2014

Los Angeles 2019 presents – Edge of Human, UK

2014

State Festival, Berlin, Germany

2014

All things new, London, UK

2014

FOAM, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, UK

2014

Science Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

2014

FOAM, AND/OR, London, UK

2014

FOAM, P/N project space, London, UK

2014

La Triennale di Milano, Italy

2014

Nowcasting, Loughborough University, UK

2014

Centre culturel Saint-Exupéry, Reims, France

2013

V&A, Digital Design Weekend 2013, London, UK

2013

Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria

2013

The Ghost in the Machine, Islington Mill, Salford, UK

2013

Men Working, Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Boone, USA

2013

Queen Elizabeth Engineering Prize Exhibition, Tate Modern, UK

2013

Ars Electronica Berlin - Wie eine zweite Natur, Germany

2013

Lumen Ray - Jerome Zodo, Italy

2012

Brittle Crazie Glasse, Islington Mill, UK

2012

Dundee Contemporary Arts, UK

2012

100 Curators 100 Days, Saatchi, Online

2012

AHF Temporary Residency in the Unconscious, V22, London

2012

Title to be decided*, Mexico, Leeds, UK

2012

Construction Gallery, London

2011

Experimental Station, LABoral, Spain

2011

Experimental Station, CA2M, Madrid, Spain

2010

Ten Floors Project - To Be Destroyed, former FA Headquarters, London, UK

2010

Port Eliot Festival 2010, UK

2010

Flatland, A romance of many dimensions, APT, London, UK

2010

Schwartz Gallery, London, UK

2010

Whatbar # 8, London, UK

2010

Le Laboratoire, Paris, France

2010

Cosmic Mysteries, Gallery Espacio, Valencia, Spain

2010

Project space, London Art Fair, UK

2009

Affluenza, London, UK

2008

Concrete and Glass, London, UK

2006

Cologne Online Film Festival

2006

Temporary Contemporary, UK

2006

Best of MA, Postgraduate Show 2005, UK

2005

Hollow Salon, UK

2005

The Wrong Map, Three Colts Gallery, UK

2005

MA/BA 2005, Art Fortnight London, UK

2005

MA Degree Show, Royal College of Art, UK

2005

60 Seconds, Café Gallery, UK

2004

Stuft, Red Gallery, UK

2004

Time Share, Trinity Buoy Warf, UK

2004

The Lamp, Hull, UK

2003

Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture, UK

Talks

2018

Supra Systems Symposium

2018

Victoria and Albert Museum - Liable Algorithms

2018

Estorick Collection - Radical Visions of Light: Futurism and Science

2017

Kensington Town Hall - Art and Science

2016

MU, Netherlands

2015

The Royal Society

2015

Pump House Gallery

2014

Arts Catalyst - Somerset House

2014

State Festival - Berlin

2012

Arts Catalyst, Radical DIY

Publications

2022

Changwon Sculpture Biennale Catalogue

2021

Ars Electronica 2021 - A New Digital Deal

2019

Organizational Aesthetics

2018

Supra Systems Book

2016

ARTEFACT Up in the Air

2016

A Raindrop Unfallen: innocence and Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint Pierre's Paul and Virginia (1788)

2015

Laser-driven x-ray and neutron source development for industrial applications of plasma accelerators

2013

Ars Electronica 2013 - Total Recall, The Evolution of Memory

2011

ESTACIÓN EXPERIMENTAL Investigaciones y fenómenos artísticos

2007

The 2007 Almanac of Political Art, Reunion Projects

Collections

2013

Allen G. Thomas Jr. Collection, USA

2010

Gibberd Garden

2005

Credit Agricole

Residencies

2022

2022 Changwon Sculpture Biennale Residency

2016

Platform residency, London, United Kingdom

2014

Beam Time residency, UK

2013

Islington Mill, United Kingdom

2011

The Art House Foundation

2005

Hull Art Lab

Press

2018

Resonance FM

2017

Euradio

2016

New Scientist

2016

Skyline

2015

SW Londoner

2014

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

2014

Wired Magazine

2014

We make money not art - Strange Weather

2014

RTE, Raidió Teilifís Éireann

2014

Irish Times

2014

Vice magazine, The Creators Project

2013

ArchiLight, Italy

2013

The Herald Sun, USA

2013

Technician, USA

2013

L'Unita, Italy

2013

News & Observer, NC, USA

2013

WUNC - NPR radio

2012

Huffington Post

2012

New Scientist

2012

Artists Newsletter

2011

Frieze Magazine

2011

Revisita de Arte - LogoPress, Spain

2011

Hoy Es Arte, Spain

2011

El Pais, Spain

2011

Gibberd Garden featured on Gardener's World, BBC

2010

Artist of the week - Saatchi Online

2010

Harlow Star

2010

NWT Magazine

2010

New Scientist

2009

Leith FM radio

2009

The List

2008

Channel 4

2008

Guardian video pick of the week

2008

Radio 1 interview

2008

Guardian newspaper

2008

TimeOut

2007

Total:spec magazine

2005

Hull Daily Mail

2005

Artists Newsletter

2003

Artists Newsletter

Education

2005

Royal College of Art

2000

Hull School of Art