Biography
Underlying Alistair McClymont’s interdisciplinary creative practice is a deep concern for beauty and reason, often explored through collaboration with scientists. By isolating phenomena, McClymont reimagines them, highlighting the balance between order and chaos, while searching for the sublime. His work spans a variety of media from sculptural installation, drawing, and photography, to moving image and digital art.
upcoming
exhibitions
- 2025Quantum Untangled, Science Gallery London, UK
- 2025Concrete Voids: Jack Warne——GAUNT, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, UK
- 2025Small Print, New Glasgow Society, UK
- 2025Early Universes, Greens Windmill and Science Centre, Nottingham, UK
- 2025Cosmic Titans: Art, Science and the Quantum Universe, Nottingham, UK
- 2024Artists for Gaza, Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
- 2024Politics of the machines, Aachen, Germany
- 2023Scopitone 2023, France
- 2023Over Blown, Edinburgh
- 2023SPACE Lab [co-creative art astronomy experiments], APT Gallery, London
- 20222022 Changwon Sculpture Biennale, South Korea
- 2022Distance Gallery
- 2022Irisations, Espace Multimédia Gantner, France
- 2022Periastra, APT Gallery, London, UK
- 2021EUROfusion, Marseille, France
- 2021Ars Electronica, There Is No Planet B, Linz, Austria
- 2020APT Gallery, London, UK
- 2019KIKK Festival, Namur, Belgium
- 2019APT Gallery, London, UK
- 2018Mozilla Festival, London, UK
- 2018V&A, Digital Design Weekend 2018, London, UK
- 2018APT Gallery, London, UK
- 2018Everything Happens So Much, London, UK
- 2018MKH Biennale, Germany
- 2018Merge Festival, London, UK
- 2018Beyond 2001: New Horizons, LCC, London, UK
- 2017Stereolux - Scopitone 2017, France
- 2017Uncertainty Playground, London, UK
- 2017Espace Multimedia Gantner, France
- 2017Digital Makers Collective, Tate Modern, London, UK
- 2017Beyond Borders, London College of Communication, UK
- 2017Platform, London, UK
- 2016MU: Weather or Not, Netherlands
- 2016No Show Space: works in series, London, UK
- 2016STUK Arts Center, Leuven, Belgium
- 2015The Royal Society, London, UK
- 2015Pump House Gallery - 3 Branches of the Same Tree, London, UK
- 2014Los Angeles 2019 presents – Edge of Human, UK
- 2014State Festival, Berlin, Germany
- 2014The Book and Record Bar, London, UK
- 2014All things new, London, UK
- 2014FOAM, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, UK
- 2014Science Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
- 2014FOAM, AND/OR, London, UK
- 2014FOAM, P/N project space, London, UK
- 2014La Triennale di Milano, Italy
- 2014Nowcasting, Loughborough University, UK
- 2014Centre culturel Saint-Exupéry, Reims, France
- 2013V&A, Digital Design Weekend 2013, London, UK
- 2013Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
- 2013The Ghost in the Machine, Islington Mill, Salford, UK
- 2013Men Working, Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Boone, USA
- 2013Queen Elizabeth Engineering Prize Exhibition, Tate Modern, UK
- 2013Ars Electronica Berlin - Wie eine zweite Natur, Germany
- 2013Lumen Ray - Jerome Zodo, Italy
- 2013CAM Raleigh, USA
- 2012Brittle Crazie Glasse, Islington Mill, UK
- 2012Dundee Contemporary Arts, UK
- 2012100 Curators 100 Days, Saatchi, Online
- 2012AHF Temporary Residency in the Unconscious, V22, London
- 2012No Show Space, London, UK
- 2012Title to be decided*, Mexico, Leeds, UK
- 2012The Art House Foundation, London, UK
- 2012Construction Gallery, London
- 2011Experimental Station, LABoral, Spain
- 2011Experimental Station, CA2M, Madrid, Spain
- 2010Ten Floors Project - To Be Destroyed, former FA Headquarters, London, UK
- 2010Port Eliot Festival 2010, UK
- 2010Flatland, A romance of many dimensions, APT, London, UK
- 2010Schwartz Gallery, London, UK
- 2010Whatbar # 8, London, UK
- 2010Le Laboratoire, Paris, France
- 2010Cosmic Mysteries, Gallery Espacio, Valencia, Spain
- 2010Project space, London Art Fair, UK
- 2009Pageant, Edinburgh, UK
- 2009'The Limitations of Logic', Wyer Gallery, London, UK
- 2009Affluenza, London, UK
- 2008Concrete and Glass, London, UK
- 2007Paramount Pictures, Wyer Gallery, London, UK
- 2006Cologne Online Film Festival
- 2006Temporary Contemporary, UK
- 2006Reception Space, London, UK
- 2006Best of MA, Postgraduate Show 2005, UK
- 2005Hollow Salon, UK
- 2005The Wrong Map, Three Colts Gallery, UK
- 2005Hull Art Lab, UK
- 2005MA/BA 2005, Art Fortnight London, UK
- 2005MA Degree Show, Royal College of Art, UK
- 200560 Seconds, Café Gallery, UK
- 2004Stuft, Red Gallery, UK
- 2004Time Share, Trinity Buoy Warf, UK
- 2004The Lamp, Hull, UK
- 2003Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture, UK
talks
- 2025National Astronomy Meeting (NAM) 2025
- 2025Quantum Simulators for Fundamental Physics consortium
- 2025Journey to Cosmic Titans
- 2018Supra Systems Symposium
- 2018Victoria and Albert Museum - Liable Algorithms
- 2018Estorick Collection - Radical Visions of Light: Futurism and Science
- 2017Kensington Town Hall - Art and Science
- 2016MU, Netherlands
- 2015The Royal Society
- 2015Pump House Gallery
- 2014Arts Catalyst - Somerset House
- 2014State Festival - Berlin
- 2012Arts Catalyst, Radical DIY
publications
- 2022Changwon Sculpture Biennale Catalogue
- 2021Ars Electronica 2021 - A New Digital Deal
- 2019Organizational Aesthetics
- 2018Supra Systems Book
- 2018Im-Pressed – Issue #02 ‘Velocity’
- 2016ARTEFACT Up in the Air
- 2016A Raindrop Unfallen: innocence and Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint Pierre's Paul and Virginia (1788)
- 2015Laser-driven x-ray and neutron source development for industrial applications of plasma accelerators
- 2013Ars Electronica 2013 - Total Recall, The Evolution of Memory
- 2011ESTACIÓN EXPERIMENTAL Investigaciones y fenómenos artísticos
- 2007The 2007 Almanac of Political Art, Reunion Projects
residencies
press
- 2025Leonardo: Cosmic Titans: Art, Science and the Quantum Universe
- 2025New Scientist: Cosmic Titans
- 2025Left Lion Magazine
- 2023Intramuros Magazine
- 2018Resonance FM
- 2017Euradio
- 2016New Scientist
- 2016Skyline
- 2015SW Londoner
- 2014Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
- 2014Wired Magazine
- 2014We make money not art - Strange Weather
- 2014RTE, Raidió Teilifís Éireann
- 2014Irish Times
- 2014Vice magazine, The Creators Project
- 2013ArchiLight, Italy
- 2013The Herald Sun, USA
- 2013Technician, USA
- 2013L'Unita, Italy
- 2013News & Observer, NC, USA
- 2013WUNC - NPR radio
- 2012Huffington Post
- 2012New Scientist
- 2012Artists Newsletter
- 2011We make money not art, LABoral
- 2011Frieze Magazine
- 2011Revisita de Arte - LogoPress, Spain
- 2011Hoy Es Arte, Spain
- 2011El Pais, Spain
- 2011Gibberd Garden featured on Gardener's World, BBC
- 2010Artist of the week - Saatchi Online
- 2010Harlow Star
- 2010NWT Magazine
- 2010New Scientist
- 2009Leith FM radio
- 2009The List
- 2008Channel 4
- 2008Guardian video pick of the week
- 2008Radio 1 interview
- 2008Guardian newspaper
- 2008TimeOut
- 2007Total:spec magazine
- 2005Hull Daily Mail
- 2005Artists Newsletter
- 2003Artists Newsletter