Artist
Libby Heaney
A visual artist and Somerset House Studios resident who entangles quantum computing with digital art through her self-written quantum code, games engine technology, video and image making.
Heaney’s quantum art jostles with physical elements such as slimy glass sculptures, watercolour paintings & fabric tentacles, creating sensuous worlds that not only speak to the entanglement of the virtual & physical, but also of the natural world & the artificial, the past, present & future, the body & mind and the human & machine. Her current work entangles quantum physics with personal trauma, embodied memory and ghosts.
Heaney has exhibited at major institutions and museums in the UK and internationally such as Ars Electronica, Linz; Tate Modern & V&A , London as well as solo exhibitions and performances at places such as arebyte Gallery, London; Sonar Festival, Barcelona; Southbank Centre, London and LAS Art Foundation, Berlin. Heaney won the 2022 Lumen Prize and Falling Walls Art & Science award for her work with quantum computing and art.
