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Peter Shenai and Laurence Osborn
Artist and designer | ComposerPeter Shenai is a British artist and designer whose work explores the relationship between data, physical objects and human experience. His practice combines design, craft and technology to translate abstract information into tangible forms. He collaborated with composer Laurence Osborn on Change Ringing, a project developed through research into ways of representing climate data through sculpture and sound.
Laurence Osborn is a British composer born in 1989, whose work has been performed by leading orchestras and contemporary music ensembles, including the London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra and Britten Sinfonia. He studied music at the University of Oxford, composition at the Royal College of Music and opera writing at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, later completing a PhD in composition at King’s College London. His compositions explore a broad range of musical forms and have received awards including the 2024 Royal Philharmonic Society Award and the 2024 Ivor Novello Award.
Change Ringing is a collaborative artwork that combines sculpture, data visualisation and contemporary classical music to communicate the history of climate change. Peter Shenai created six bronze bells whose shapes are derived from statistical representations of summer temperatures at intervals across the twentieth century. When struck in chronological order, the bells produce changing tones that reflect shifts in temperature. Laurence Osborn used these sounds as the basis for a composition for bells and string orchestra, transforming climate data into a musical experience that invites audiences to engage with global warming through sound and sculpture.
