Studio Swine is a studio founded in 2011 by Japanese architect Azusa Murakami and British artist Alexander Groves in London, England.Their work straddles between the spheres of sculpture, installations and cinema, blending poetry and research into immersive experiences.The studio adopts an unique approach to each work, drawing on the distinctive resources and vernacular aesthetic of its cultural,historic and economic landscape.Professional training in art and architecture allows the studio to bridge rich and emotional narratives with rigorous spatial awareness.

Studio Swine and COS create sculptural tree that blossoms with mist-filled bubbles.Called New Spring, the six-metre high structure consists of slender tubes that extend up and out like the branches of a tree.New Spring is an interactive installation and multi-sensory experience in a 1930’s disused Cinema in Milan.The installation presents ephemeral materials in a strange new context;delicate mist-filled‘blossoms’that disappear on contact with skin, but can be held by visitors wearing special gloves.Producing these blossoms is the installation’s bold centrepiece, a tree-like sculpture that references the ornate chandeliers of Italian palazzos and the architectural features of Milanese columns and arches.

Infinity Blue is an immersive installation that pays homage to the cyanobacteria, one of the world’s smallest living beings.Taking the form of a stromatolite—a massive stack of fossilized cyanobacteria — the installation is comprised of ceramic tiles made from cornish clay that reflect the mining history of the area.its organic,textural facade is generated by a reaction-diffusion algorithm found in nature,and features cyan dots that represent the cyanobacteria.from the sculpture, 32 vortex cannons produce vapor rings that symbolize oxygen, and whose scents tell a layered history of the earth’s atmosphere.   

Dawn Particles, a series of hand-blown glass containers containing krypton in plasma form, are mounted on a red wall and fluctuate between a stationary beam of light and a filament that bursts and flickers like lightning.The medium of swirling fog in cycles of turbulence and settling creates a shifting volume of light and color; distorting a sense of weight,space and time.The works are inspired by the transcendentalist landscape painters such as Turner and Thomas Cole who used the depiction of nature and light to evoke the feeling of the sublime and the spirit of nature.