Lucid at the London Stock Exchange — "Inspire" Artist Takeover

In 2025, Lucid was exhibited at the London Stock Exchange as part of the Kinly Inspire event — a premier gathering where technology, workplace transformation, and the modern workplace converge.

A Different Context

Lucid was originally created in 2018, drawn from a sustained sleep diary I recorded over several months. The work embeds text within fluid simulations, where language stretches, ripples, and dissolves across a shifting surface. Legibility is deliberately unstable, mirroring the difficulty of retaining dream imagery upon waking.

Showing this work at the London Stock Exchange — a space defined by precision, data, and the pursuit of clarity — created a productive tension. The Stock Exchange's atrium, with its eight-metre NEC LED video wall, became a space where the instability of personal memory met the stability of institutional infrastructure. The dream diary, a document of the most private and uncontrollable aspect of consciousness, played across screens designed to deliver financial information with absolute fidelity.

What the Context Revealed

Every time a work is shown in a new context, it reveals something about itself that wasn't visible before. In a gallery, Lucid reads as a meditation on memory and perception. At the Stock Exchange, it became something closer to a provocation — a reminder that the people who occupy these high-performance environments carry their inner lives with them, and that the boundary between professional clarity and psychological porousness is thinner than architecture suggests.

The Inspire event itself was built around the concept of office vitality — how innovative technologies, workplace design, and new ways of working can create more engaging and productive environments. Lucid's presence within that programme suggested that "productivity" might be a more complex and human concept than it first appears.

Prints from the Lucid series are available as limited editions through the Collect page.