AL and AL investigate the shaping forces of fantasy and reality. They met in Derek Jarman's garden in
1998 and began working together at St. Martins art school in 1999. In 2001 they were awarded an
ACME residency, transforming a warehouse in East London into a blue screen special effects film
studio. AL and AL became pioneering artist film makers combining live action performance with
computer generated 3D environments to create dream worlds in film. The artists have created an
award winning body of work commissioned by Film London, animate projects, Channel 4, Culture
Company, FACT, MuHKA, World Science Festival, the Arts Council, the Southbank Centre and the
Royal Society. They have exhibited internationally in over 50 countries in galleries, site specific
installations, film festivals and on television. Their work is represented by LUX and the British Council.
In 2008 their critically acclaimed solo exhibition at the FACT gallery for the European Capital of
Culture toured to the National Art Museum of China in Beijing during the Olympic games. To
accompany the exhibition they collaborated with writers Grant Morrison and Marina Warner on their
first solo publication. In 2009 AL and AL transformed Edge Hill station into a space for the Arts,
curating a series of site specific exhibitions exploring the scientific and cultural significance of the site,
as well as curating Niet Niet's at MuHKA combining works by artists Yves Klein and Anish Kapoor with
scientists Joseph Plateau and Charles Darwin. They were subsequently awarded the Liverpool Art
Prize. In 2010 AL and AL collaborated with composer Philip Glass, physicist Brian Greene and writer
David Henry Hwang on Icarus at the Edge of Time. The premiere was introduced by Stephen
Hawkings at the World Science Festival in New York with a 63 piece symphony orchestra. In 2011
AL and AL have been developing their debut feature.