About the artists
Air Giants is a Bristol-based creative studio making huge, joyful robots and powerful immersive experiences. Air Giants is Emma Powell (creative director and designer), Robert Nixdorf (director of robotics), and Richard Sewell (director of pneumatics). This exhibition brings together the brilliant Air Giants with a team of bespoke sound and light artists.
They are technological pioneers, using cutting-edge approaches alongside traditional hand-crafting techniques to bring creatures of the imagination into the everyday. Their works have appeared in places such as Cinekid Festival in Amsterdam, Tai Kwun Art Centre in Hong Kong, Playable City Showcase in Bristol, the British Library, V&A Museum in London and King’s College London’s Science Gallery.
Chu-Li Shewring is a filmmaker, sound designer and sound artist. Her most recent work, Termites Speaking in Tongues, is a 10.1 channel sound installation of fantasies on infestations of fictional insect, creature and humanoid colonies within the walls and ceiling of the Cinema Tower at the Museum of Modern Art Warsaw. She has collaborated with artist filmmakers including Anagram, Siobhan Davies, Jeremy Deller, Beatrice Gibson, Steve McQueen, Ben Rivers, Frances Scott, and Aura Satz, and has been awarded at Sheffield DocFest 2022, and received the Jules Wright Prize at the Jarman Award 2017.
Harriet Wallis is an architectural lighting designer who experiments with natural materials and diffusers. Her work responds to nature and landscape. Key collaborators include Greenpeace at Glastonbury, Jony Easterby and Liam Walsh.