Dr Libby Heaney is a working class, award winning artist with a PhD and professional background in Quantum Science. She is the first artist to work with quantum computing as a functioning artistic medium. Heaney’s practice explores the inherently non-binary and hybrid concepts and non-linear temporalities of quantum physics. She combines diverse media such as virtual reality, video games, moving image, watercolour, glass and most recently public sculpture with cutting-edge technologies like AI and quantum computing. Together these create a dream-like aesthetic, asking big philosophical questions about existence & the nature of reality while remaining very human, intimate and embodied. Quantum inspired monsters, hybrids, slime and other fluid forms are recurring motifs, entangling personal narratives and emotional landscapes with the impact of the exterior realm. Ooze becomes a symbol of potentiality, transformation and the blurred boundaries between the animate and inanimate, life and death. Spanning the organic, the mechanical and the human, Heaney’s practice continuously seeks to expand the possibilities of the individual and the collective through the irrational magic of quantum, while critically queering capitalist uses of technology. Solo exhibitions include Quantum Soup, HEK, Basel; Heartbreak & Magic, Somerset House, London and Ent-, LAS Art Foundation, Berlin, among others. In 2024 her first artistic monograph was published by Hatje Cantz and she participated in Frieze Sculpture, London. As a pioneer in the field of quantum and art, Heaney is frequently called to deliver keynotes and speak on panels around the world such as at the Museum of Moving Image, New York City; Gwangju Biennale Symposium, Gwangju; London Sculpture Week, London and Sonar+D, Barcelona. In 2025 Heaney will hold a solo show at Orlean House Gallery, London which will include works by J M W Turner as part of Turner 250 and the UNESCO Year of Quantum Science and Technology.