Keith Tyson was born in Cumbria in 1969. He left college at 15 and worked for four years as an engineer in a shipyard. He then studied fine art at Carlisle College of Art before turning to art full-time. Of his interest in science, he says: “I don’t count myself as having a particularly in-depth knowledge of anything, but I have a very wide range of knowledge of everything.” This has inspired works such as Galactic Central Pointer, a finger pointed at the centre of the Milky Way, and The Thinker, a column of computers he calls “a comatose…
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