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1 Issue, March 2016

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Tempest in a Tea Room

British sculptor Conrad Shawcross is about to shake up High Tea at The Peninsula. He talks to Chloe Street about his remarkable robotic creation
Tempest in a Tea Room
“YOU MEET STRANGE MEN with vans in service station car parks, exchange a wad of cash for the goods and they drive off… It’s all very Blade Runner,” explains Conrad Shawcross not of any criminal activity, but the somewhat insalubrious market for second-hand robots. The British sculptor, a graduate of London’s prestigious Slade School of Fine Art and Oxford’s Ruskin School of Art, and the son of celebrated writers Marina Warner and William Shawcross, is not the sort one pictures cutting deals with the drivers of white vans on the M25. But The Ada Project, his installation at The Peninsula Hong Kong this month, required some niche hardware. Shawcross’s large kinetic robot sculpture is part of the Love Art at The Peninsula programme, an annual collaboration with the Royal Academy of…
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