Client - Superflux, The Museum of the Future, Dubai

Situated in the Museum of the Future, Dubai, The Vault of Life is an enormous genetic archive. Two thousand four hundred crystal specimen jars hang suspended in a 375sqm space, each etched with an image of a unique existing or even extinct lifeform. The Library catalogues the majestic diversity of our planet’s living things, inviting visitors to forge a deeper connection with nature.

Particle Studio designed and prototyped the specimen jar in collaboration with Rolland Ellis and Superflux.

Client - Zarah Hussain

Invisible Threads is a light-based art installation by Zarah Hussain that follows traditional patterns of Islamic geometry. A hexagonal grid of rhomb prisms is illuminated in an ever-changing colour program based on the number 6.

Particle Studio developed the installation which first showed at the 2018 Barnaby Festival.

Client - Chris Levine

The central installation of Levine’s 2018 show Inner [Deep] Space featured a fragment from a hundred-tonne Argentinian meteorite. The silvered artefact reflected ‘nebulas’ of laser light, slowly shifting and morphing, giving a glimpse of what is out in the cosmos.

Particle Studio worked with Levine and the laser company ER Productions to create the installation. The project involved precision motorised optics, large-scale mould making, and the finishing and metalising of a meteorite. 

Client - Chris Levine

Space Rocker is a light-based art piece by Chris Levine comprised of a parabolic aluminium dish, lasers and a meteorite from Campo del Cielo.

Particle Studio conducted research into geometry, optics, and finishes in order to create an ethereal, liquid effect of light rippling from the surface of the slowly revolving meteorite.

Client - _J.L - A.L_

_J.L - A.L_ is a technical menswear label created by Jean-Luc Ambridge Lavelle. The project began in 2020 when the London-based designer used his rudimentary sewing knowledge and self-taught pattern-making skills to create a selection of functional and inventive outerwear.

Particle collaborated with J.L - A.L_ to design and build an installation for Dover Street Market in Ginza, Tokyo. This install would present the new season of clothing in the exclusive store. The install made use of stainless tube fabrication, chrome spray deposition and complex CAD surface modelling.

Client - Chris Levine

Produced by Particle Studio for artist Chris Levine, Inner Space uses dichroic glass, lenses, and modulating LEDs to give us a glimpse of higher dimensions. The view from each side reveals a seemingly infinite space filled with a swirling plasma of light.

Client - Hannah Perry

Particle Studio worked alongside art fabricators Big Soda, providing the automation, electronics and programming for this mechanical sculpture for artist Hannah Perry, BULLY (2019).

It evokes moments of violence, tenderness and intimacy through a mechanised dance with itself. Movement simulators choreograph the actions of two curved metal bodies. Harmonious interactions between the two elements are juxtaposed to repeated moments of confrontation. Through their clashes, the sculptural forms gradually destroy their polished surfaces, so that during the course of the exhibition the signs of wear caused by their interactions and confrontations become increasingly evident. 

Client - Chris Levine

The Parabolic 1.X series of artworks by Chris Levine are large, curved dishes in luminescent colours. Each dish is paired with Levine’s Laserpod, which uses custom optics to generate unique, ethereal landscapes of light within the sculpture.

Particle Studio first produced the series for the 2018 Levine show Inner [Deep] Space.

Client - Chris Levine

Developed by Particle Studio for artist Chris Levine, the Laserpod uses a slowly revolving crystal and custom textured optics to refract and reflect a powerful violet laser beam into shards of rippling and morphing light.

Client - Chris Levine

Blipvert is a series of artworks by Chris Levine which creates an image in the viewer’s vision as their gaze darts past, but disappears when looked at directly. The effect is achieved by using ultra-fast LEDs, displaying the image one line at a time, 4000 times a second.

Particle Studio developed the electronics and housing, and performed installation of the pieces.

Client - Brainchild

Artists - Kristi Minchin, Oscar Murray

Playground is an interactive art installation developed by artist Kristi Minchin and Particle Studio mechanical designer Oscar Murray for the Brainchild Festival in 2018. Their concept took inspiration from traditional playgrounds and was conceived as a way to allow festival visitors to connect through play. The installation includes a swing, roundabout, and seesaw encompassing a central platform of sculptural forms. When all of the components are in use, the sculpture comes to life in a crescendo of motion.

Particle Studio collaborated on the work including concept, mechanical development, fabrication, and installation.

Client - Chris Levine

Matter of Time is a trio of light-based artworks produced by Particle Studio for artist Chris Levine using LEDs and semi-silvered mirror to create portals of deep violet light.

Inspired by the iconic BBC Playschool windows, they appear like wormholes stretching into the infinite from the walls of Soho House in White City, the old BBC Television Centre.

Particle was responsible for the mechanical design, fabrication and installation of this piece. We researched and experimented with LED fixtures and electronics which were combined with high end glass manufacture.

Client – Chris Levine

Produced by Particle Studio for artist Chris Levine, Sphere 9 is a luminescent sphere suspended within a solid cast cube.

Lit from underneath with ultraviolet LEDs it emits a soft glow.

Collaboration - Sarah Weistner, Nulty Lighting

For Clerkenwell Design Week 2016, artist Sarah Weistner approached us to do a collaborative installation to celebrate light in the beautiful Our Most Holy Redeemer Church, Exmouth Market in London’s Farringdon district. We teamed up with Nulty Lighting to provide a powerful lighting effect to transform the church.

Taking inspiration from the large windows in the top of the church which bring in brilliant rays of sunlight, the Full Circle installation projects a spot of light on the floor from the two sculptural wall pieces. Each mirror is precisely positioned and angled using individually adjusted legs.

Client - Pupil

Pupil are a London tech company building on cutting edge technology for 3D scanning and building of architectural spaces in virtual reality.

Particle Studio were asked to create a lighting piece that gives a sense of their virtual environments. The xenon gas-filled neon sign is mounted on slender custom-machined supports, and appears to hover in the room like a video game heads-up display.