Cerith Wyn Evans

Cerith Wyn Evans’ conceptual practice explores how ideas can be communicated through form, spanning installation, sculpture, photography, film and text. He began as a filmmaker making short experimental works; since the 1990s he has made art dealing with language and perception and their manifestation in space, often through site-specific exhibitions.

Neon text sculptures, firework pieces in which wooden structures spell out open-ended texts and burn over a set period, and chandeliers transmitting morse code translations of computer-dictated texts recur across a body of work drawing on film, music, literature and philosophy. Born in Wales in 1958 and based in London, he won the Hepworth Wakefield Prize for Sculpture in 2018 and has shown at Tate Britain, HangarBicocca and Serpentine.