Relative Distance

Relative Distance is a London design studio founded by Roland Ellis and Dev Joshi and launched in 2024, making collectible objects and durational light-based artworks that explore relationships of scale across the universe, rooted in physics and astronomy and in the forces held in reverence across cultures.

Its first piece, Phase, is a lunar light and long-form timepiece synchronised to the moon in real time: four years in development and hand assembled to order, in an edition of 28 plus two artist’s proofs, 60cm and 120cm in diameter, with a mineral composite caseback in Ilmenite or Feldspar tones and no app or wifi, only three analogue buttons. The founders bring over twenty years in studios including Random International, Troika and Wolfgang Buttress.