ABOUT

Andy J Harper is a UK-based visual artist and creative technologist creating atmospheric installations with light, sound, fabric, movement and responsive systems. His work explores atmosphere as a sculptural medium, revealing invisible environmental conditions through immersive experiences that invite audiences to engage with space through movement, perception and collective presence. Drawing on a background in creative technology and design, Harper combines physical materials with real-time systems to create responsive environments that blur the boundaries between the digital and physical world. His current research investigates atmosphere, perception and collective experience through immersive environments and site-responsive interventions.

Andy J Harper, visual artist, working with fabric and light in an installation

Andy J Harper - London, 2025

Bio 
Andy Harper is a UK-based artist working across installation, light, sound and responsive systems. His practice explores atmosphere as a sculptural medium, creating immersive environments that reveal the often-unnoticed forces shaping a space.
Drawing upon environmental processes, industrial heritage and embodied experience, Harper develops installations that use light, fabric, sound and environmental conditions as active materials.
Recent projects include Clouds: Elevated, a large-scale suspended installation developed with Kulvir Bhramba; Weather Machine, an atmospheric work exploring light, fabric and environmental conditions; and Breathing Machine, an ongoing body of research investigating atmosphere, circulation and responsive systems through installation, sound and textile structures.
His work has been presented across galleries, festivals and public spaces in the UK and internationally, including  Germany, Ireland and the Czech Republic.
Current Research​​​​​​​
My current research investigates how environmental systems can become artistic materials.
Rather than creating fixed objects, I am interested in developing responsive environments that reveal the dynamic conditions already present within a site. Airflow, weather, resonance, movement and collective presence are treated as active agents capable of shaping an installation over time.
Recent studies have focused on suspended textiles, environmental sensing, projection, sound and low-tech responsive systems. Through temporary interventions, material experiments and site-based testing, I am exploring how atmosphere can be experienced collectively rather than individually.
This research is informing a developing body of work centred on circulation, permeability and transformation. Increasingly, I am interested in the relationship between natural and industrial systems, including breath and ventilation, weather and machinery, textile structures and contemporary responsive technologies.
Future projects will continue to investigate how responsive installations can shift in relation to changing environmental conditions and audience presence, creating situations where atmosphere itself becomes the primary medium.
Selected Exhibitions, Installations & Performances (2008–Present)

2026 – Breathing Machine – Ode to the Midlands, The Midlands, UK
2026 – Weather Machine – Where the Sheep Sleep, Zeewolde, Netherlands
2026 – Weather Machine – Burning Nest, Devon, UK
2025 – Clouds: Elevated (with Kulvir Bhramba) – Beacon Hill Sculptural Trail, Charnwood Forest, UK
2025 - Clouds: Elevated (with Kulvir Bhramba) – Wandsworth Arts Festival - London, UK
2024 - Clouds: Elevated (with Kulvir Bhramba) – Lightbox Gallery - Leicester, UK
2024 - Nimbus: Reimagined (with Dayflower) - Lightbox Gallery - Leicester, UK
2024 - AV Performance (with Muted Fnord) – Duffy's - Leicester, UK
2023 - Performance (with billion o'clock ) – The Lab, Northampton, UK
2023 - Performance (with billion o'clock) – OMC, Leicester, UK
2023 - 無常 Mujō – Institute Research Lab, Loughborough UK
2022 - Ascension (with Kishan Anand) as Evolve +/- Die – Art in the Chapel, Leicester UK
2022 - Crystal System (with Leonie Dubarry-Gurr) – Institute Research Lab, UK
2022 - Performance (with Leonie) – Islington Assembly Halls, London, UK
2022 - Alpha Emergence – Beta X, Leicester UK
2022 - Crystal System (with Leonie Dubarry-Gurr) – Leicester Light Festival, UK
2022 - Breaking Borders (with Jas Singh) – Goma Waterford, Dublin, Ireland
2021 - AV Performance - bī-nôr'əl Cinema – Lightbox Gallery - Leicester, UK
2021 - Solo Exhbition – Lightbox Gallery - Leicester, UK
2021 - Denisova – Safe Street art festival, Olomouc, Czech Republic
2021 - Leavings – Up your street, Loughborough, UK  
2021 - Cubing the Sphere (with Dave Stitch ) – VRHAM - Hamburg, Germany
2021 - Residency & Solo show – LCB Depot, Leicester, UK
2020 - A Window to Reality – Empty Shop Windows, Loughborough, UK
2020 - AR Extra - Gallery Version – LCB Depot, Leicester, UK
2020 - AR Extra – Empty Shop Windows, Loughborough, UK
2019 - INTERACT Digital Arts – Leicester, UK
2018 - Gallery without Walls – Leicester, UK
2017 – Gallery Without Walls – Lightbox Gallery, Leicester, UK
2012 – Monokrome Launch – Shoreditch, London, UK
2008 – Solo Exhibition – Alley, Nottingham, UK

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