Name: Lana Enix
Address: 4 Nelson Street, Greenock, Scotland, PA15 1TP
Contact email: lanaenix67@gmail.com
Website: lanaenix.com
Instagram: enix_nn
STATEMENT
I am an artist working in new media, sculpture, and immersive installation art. My works are conceived and realised to be materially potent and visually striking, evoking strong feelings that precede the mediation of words. The Flower Power exhibition has a particular resonance for me because it fosters the same territory of affect and raw perception, such as the experience of encountering a large, vivid exotic flower or the joy of coming into contact with scientific research made tangible.
In my immersive works and sculptures, primal elements and forces of nature are often integrated with advanced technology in order to explore and evoke feelings of eternity and transcendence. For this reason, I am especially keen to contribute to an exhibition at the Royal Botanic Garden that brings together scientific research and artistic invention.
Through works employing cutting-edge materials and technologies, I seek to find new and more poignant expressions of the timeless, inexhaustible themes and to explore the complexities of human experience characteristic of contemporary reality. To me, nature and science are exactly such inexhaustible themes, and I am eager to create artwork that responds to this particular domain.
In recent years, I was awarded a grant by Immersive Arts UK, undertook an artist residency at Cove Park, was shortlisted for ArtEvol at the Saatchi Gallery in London, and exhibited work at the Barbican Arts Group Trust, London.
I hold a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from the Glasgow School of Art. Previously, I was commissioned to create a room-sized immersive installation for the ‘You…’ exhibition at the Reid Gallery, where it was shown alongside works by professors of the Glasgow School of Art. While still at university, I was selected for a development project by Culture & Business Scotland, which later evolved into my ongoing From Within sculpture series.
The accompanying text for the series reads: ‘Created from within, each sculpture embodies conception and germination. Furthermore, certain works in the series take on highly organic forms, with some visually resembling botanical formations or bodily organs...’. I have always been inspired by flora and have been deeply drawn to spending time in botanic gardens. I have admired plants flourishing beneath glass domes, preserved within the pristine glass bubbles much like artworks within the White Cube, transforming botanic gardens into spaces where science and flora become art in their own right.
PROPOSED WORK
Fuchsia, 2026
Interactive installation, 2 × 1.5 × 2–3 m (H × W × D)
The work consists of 2 parts: the 1st half already exists and is documented in the video below, while the 2nd will be new.
The viewer’s 3-dimensional face and figure are captured using a depth sensor and recreated life-size and in real time on a vertical 50-inch Led screen, as though looking into an otherworldly mirror. Within the digital reflection, a bright fuchsia glow emerges inside the viewer’s skull in place of the brain and remains internally connected as the viewer moves through the installation.
The sensual fuchsia colour was chosen as a hue that exists in its own right, neither red nor pink, but the kind of colour found in an exotic flower of a rare species.
On the 50-inch Led screen, the wide shot of the viewer with an internal glowing sphere will change to a close-up of the fuchsia sphere, which then metamorphoses through digital animation into a luminous, near-spherical cluster of fuchsia Rhododendron griersonianum, a rare species cultivated at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, captured in the photo below.
This is the 2nd, new part of the work. To inform the creation of this digital 3d animation, I am interested in engaging with RBGE's scientific research on rhododendrons, as well as using photographs of rare rhododendrons growing at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.
The work evokes a bloom within the viewer's brain.
The interactive installation is constructed and processed through a custom system built by me in Touchdesigner.
Please select 4K quality when watching the video.
Photo from the RBGE website Search – Rhododendron Griersonianum [hybrid], Soap House North and West - Edinburgh
The viewer’s depth and volume data are used to reconstruct their 3d double, with the glowing sphere embedded within the actual spatial volume of the head.
Behind-the-scenes
The programmed system in Touchdesigner
PRODUCTION
Production budget:
As the exhibition will last for over 7 months, it is more cost-effective to purchase the equipment than to rent it. If the gallery already has an LED screen in the range of 43-55 inches, it would not need to be purchased and could therefore be deducted from the budget.
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Compact PC (small form factor or mini tower) with NVIDIA RTX 4060 GPU - £900
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50-inch LED screen - £280
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Miscellaneous: mount for vertical installation of the screen (either wall-mounted or free-standing); shelf or tall stand for the depth sensor; cables and connectors; shipping - £200
Total: £1,380
Contribution from artist:
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In-kind contribution: Orbbec Femto Bolt depth sensor (including shipping and duties) - £450
CV
Lana Enix (formerly Nadia Enix, Nadia Zhaya)
EDUCATION
BA(Hons) Fine Art: Sculpture
The Glasgow School of Art, United Kingdom
JURIED SELECTIONS
2026-2022
- Immersive Arts Grant, 2026-ongoing, United Kingdom
- Cove Park residency, invited by Cryptic, February 2026, Scotland, UK
- ArtEvol, shortlisted, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK, 2025
- Hugo Burge Foundation Grant, 2025, Scotland, UK
- Luigi Candiani Prize 2025, From Within: Conception, 28 June - 26 July at SAC, Spazio Arte Contemporanea, Italy
- Artworks Open, From Within: Power, on view 29 November - 8 December 2024 at Barbican Arts Group Trust, London, UK
- Crea Open 2025, Special Mention for the Quality of Research, From Within series, Crea Cantieri del Contemporaneo Venice, Italy
- Cryptic Nights 2024, shortlisted, Energy Axis, CCA: Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, UK
- Creative Scotland Award for a solo project, UK
- Post, Realm (now From Within I), curated by Franceska Zappia and Jenny Brownrigg, on view 1 July - 5 August 2023, Reid Gallery, Glasgow, UK
- Materials Matter, project by Culture & Business Scotland, work development, exhibition, Formation, From Within I, 2022-2023, on view November 2023 at Strange Field French street, Glasgow, UK
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2025-2019
- You are a memory…, Energy Axis, commission, curated by Shalmali Shetty, on view 23 september - 4 october, Reid Gallery, Glasgow, UK
- Culture & Business conference, From Within I, project by the Culture & Business Scotland, on view at House of Merchants, Glasgow, UK
- Phlox, Formation, on view at Poetry Club, SWG3, Glasgow, UK
- Rooftop Artshow, Realm (now From Within I), organiser, sponsored by Urban Offices, on view at UO Rooftop, Glasgow, UK
- Science festival, Encapsula, collaboration with Dr. Beth Langley, PhD of the University of Glasgow, on view at Pipe Factory, Glasgow, UK
- Degree show, Axis on Fire, Glasgow School of Art, UK
- Exhibit B, Axis on Fire prototype, Govan Project Space, Glasgow, UK
- Epilogue, Island of 1 Flame, on view at Pipe Factory, Glasgow, UK
- Shed end show, Industrial alchemy, on view at House for an Art Lover, Glasgow, UK
- Space exhibition, Axis Mundi, on view at McLellan Galleries, Glasgow, UK
PRESS
2025-2022
- ArtEvol 2025 Catalogue, From Within series, Saatchi Gallery
- The Skinny, Explosion from within (From Within I) review
- Art Rabbit, Artworks Open 2024, From Within series, Barbican Art Group Trust
- Good Press, Materials Matter, Formation, review by El. Hudson, p.17 - 23
- Artmag, You are a memory… exhibition, Energy Axis
- Degree Show Catalogue, Axis on Fire, From Within I
PORTFOLIO
FROM WITHIN: A SCULPTURE SERIES
7 sculptures, 2022-2026
The series of sculptures is created from within – by a chemical explosion in the composition of industrial cast clear acrylic. Made from this transparent, durable material, the From Within sculptures embody the ethereal and eternal inner realm of human energy.
THE TECHNIQUE
The work is created at a factory where liquid acrylic undergoes a standard curing process – a chemical reaction. The process is adjusted by the artist in a subtle way, causing the chemical reaction to progress into a chemical explosion. The work is formed by the behaviour of the composition of industrial acrylic itself, with no added chemicals. This technique was invented by the artist. As the acrylic solidifies, a sphere, formed by the explosion, is captured.
ENERGY
The sculptures created from within themselves metaphorically embody the process of energy originating inside a person and generating thought and feeling that lead to action – realizing the same creation from the inside outwards. Translucent and ethereal, the sculptures incarnate the immaterial yet critical sphere of inner human activity. These explosions captured in a long-lasting material symbolize the eternal, mystical, and powerful nature of the domain within us.
NATURAL
Acrylic, for better or for worse, is a phenomenal material with no equivalent in the natural world due to its engineering at the very level of chemical structure, which is what makes it so strangely malleable and durable. It is a product of human intervention at the deepest possible level. The sculptures, made using the same process and material employed in everyday structures and objects – adjusted only slightly by the artist – exemplify how a subtle shift can provoke an explosion, uncovering a potent property inherent in this human-engineered matter, which had previously lain dormant.
Created from within, each sculpture embodies conception and germination. Furthermore, certain works in the series take on highly organic forms, with some visually resembling botanical formations or bodily organs such as a heart or an embryo. These qualities suggest a feeling of new life being conceived, albeit through artificial means. The work can therefore be seen as a result of human engineering that pushes boundaries of the ‘natural’, striving to transcend and enrich our perception of ‘nature’.
The full annotation, including the Sustainability section, is available at From Within | Lana Enix.
When watching the video, please select the 4K quality.
AXIS ON FIRE
The pillar of light is one’s own axis outside of oneself.
The formation of light and energy in the work is the vibrant core in one’s own world.
It’s what one holds and sees as light.
kinetic fire sculpture, hologram, tripling projection, room-sized immersive installation
Axis on Fire + Energy Axis. Created within several months of each other, the 2 immersive installations are variations of the same work and are presented together in this video.
When the kinetic sculpture is spinning, the surrounding air containing oxygen is caught in its metal mesh, and together with the spiral wing seizing the air, they fuel the rise of a pillar of fire inside the sculpture. The hologram is made from undistorted recordings of the kinetic device in darkness, where the fast spinning of the metal mesh causes it to become transparent, revealing the pillar of fire within.
The pillar of fire, generated restlessly and held together by the sculpture's constant motion, embodies a resilient and inexhaustible energy backbone within a person. The inner source of spirit and light, and the underlying soul-stirring desire and drive, take on the shape of an axis on fire. The installation serves as a personal eternal flame.
The sound is generated directly from the fire pillar’s changing light intensity and motion. The two-channel audio is played through a quadraphonic speaker system, immersing the room. The generative sound was coded in Python and composed in Supercollider by Arthur Start.
The hologram projection triples, with two more of the same fire formation on the opposite walls. Superimposed with the projections are human-height mirrors, appearing as black voids ablaze. Voids are inherently infinite. As the viewer approaches one of the mirror voids, they see their own reflection on fire. The viewer is the axis now. When the fire formation is circular, the viewer sees their face in a halo of a swirl of flames.