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ArtEvol 2025 / Lisa Pettibone
Encounter , 2025 Glass, bronze 12 × 26 × 24 cm
Lisa Pettibone is a United Kingdom–based, California-born visual artist working in sculpture, installation and print. Pettibone’s practice engages with natural forces such as gravity and tension, exploring the evolution of form through physics, astronomy and philosophy. Natural phenomena, refracted through perception, acquire new meaning via contrasts of material and idea. Processes draw on scientific research, collaboration and site-specific responses. Pettibone combines lustrous qualities with fabric, metal and wood to create sensory-rich works. In 2018–19, Pettibone was an artist in residence at Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London, where research centred on ESA’s Euclid Mission exploring dark matter. The collaborative work Fingertip Galaxy , created with more than 250 scientists, launched on board the Euclid spacecraft in 2023.
Artwork Introduction
Encounter relates to the relationship with the Moon, both its geological otherness and the human experience of the rock’s collection. A boulder fragment appears snapped into an astronaut’s gloved hand after millions of years of stillness. Beyond scientific study of its make-up, the work emphasises the human experience with the mysterious surface of a cosmic neighbour. Flesh and bone encounter a celestial enigma, creating new mythologies. The bronze cast Moon rock, collected on the 1972 Apollo 17 mission, was moulded from a digital 3D NASA file and placed in the dip of the collapsed blown glass form.
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