About the artists

Photograph Nick Robertson

Laurie Anderson is a highly respected experimental musician and performance artist. Her career began in the experimental New York art scene of the early 1970s, and has extended to the release of a string of albums with Warner Brothers including Big Science – featuring the track ‘O Superman’ which reached number two in the British Pop charts in 1981. She has collaborated on the invention of musical instruments including the tape-bow violin and talking stick – a wireless 6 foot long MIDI controller shaped like a baton used in her work Songs and Stories From Moby Dick, a multi-media theatrical homage to Herman Melville’s 1851 novel. Anderson completed a two year stint as the first artist in residence at NASA which culminated in a film premiered at the 2005 World Expo in Japan. Her work has been shown at the Guggenheim Museum, New York and the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.

Brian Eno is a producer, musician and scholar. He is regarded as the godfather of ambient music, and a highly respected producers of rock music. Eno established himself as an accomplished and imaginative producer and musician in the band Roxy Music between 1971 and 1973. After leaving the group he embarked on a career as a successful solo artist and composer, releasing many influential albums of electronic, pop and experimental ambient music. Eno trained in fine art at Ipswich Art School and continues to produce work as a visual artist and maintain his role as visiting lecture to the Royal College of Art. His work has been exhibited at the Venice Biennale, Pompidou Centre, Hayward Gallery, and White Cube gallery.