Cycle 14 Alt-w Production Award -
Frances Priest with Sam Healy
francespriest.co.uk

7th November 2025 to 11th April 2026.
Blackwell, Bowness-on-Windermere LA23 3JT

Motifs from the realm of neoclassical architecture dance and evolve on screen, tracing a journey from the ancient, analogue and physical, to the modern, digital and abstract. Craft techniques such as tiling, mosaic, marquetry, weave and stitch all originated as mathematical pattern structures and here are brought full circle, ‘re-encoded’ as algorithms.

Cycle 13 Alt-w Production Award - Ray Interactive
Sam Healy & Brendan McCarthy

1st December 2025 to January 30th 2026. FREE
Level 2, EFI, 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh EH3 9EF

In this map of the stars directly above Edinburgh Futures Institute, updated live as time passes, the incoming light generates unique abstract animations. By taking this stellar data set and a computer algorithm called reaction/diffusion, they literally bring the heavens alive.

Restless, vital patterns emerge looking like cells, fingerprints, fungi, animal markings or brain cross-sections. They remind us that all life originates in the stars. Each iteration hints at the fragile balance between growth and death on which beauty, harmony and meaning depend.