Liliane Lijn at Narec. Photo © AV Festival 10.

Liliane Lijn is resident artist at Narec (New and Renewable Energy Centre) with Inspire Northumberland. A pioneer of science in art, Lijn’s work pursues the essential paradox between light and matter making use of new technologies to create works that represent the world as energy. In 2005, Lijn was awarded an Arts Council England, NASA residency at the Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley. The residency resulted in Stardust Ruins, her installations with Aerogel, the substance used by the NASA Stardust Project to collect interstellar dust. This was followed by collaboration with a NASA astrophysicist on a large solar land-art work, Solar Hills that will define the horizon with pinpoints of light. Lijn’s work is in the collections of major public institutions worldwide and is represented by Riflemaker, London. Narec is a national centre dedicated to accelerating the deployment and grid integration of renewable energy and low carbon generation technologies, utilising wind, wave, tidal, solar PV and thermal power.