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Brendan Walker
is a Renaissance Showman - a technology-inspired
performance artist described by The Times as
"the world's only Thrill Engineer". Brendan's
unique brand of live entertainment, contraption
building, and scientific experimentation has
gained him international notoriety in both the
arts and sciences. His multi-faceted Thrill
Laboratory performances have provided popular
entertainment for audiences from the Science
Museum to Alton Towers, featured at Tate Modern
and MoMA (New York), whilst also stimulating
academic debate. Brendan originally trained as
an aeronautical engineer at Imperial College and
worked for British Aerospace Military Aircraft
for five years before undertaking an MA in
Industrial Design Engineering at the Royal
College of Art. For eight years he combined his
professional practice with working in the
research studio of the Computer Related Design
Department at the RCA.
Brendan has featured on national and
international TV and radio, and in the press. He
has appeared as the "Thrill Engineer" on the
BBC's Blue Peter, Bang Goes The Theory and the
One Show, and Discovery Channel's Engineering
Thrills. He appeared as an engineer and
presenter on Channel 4's five-part series
Titanic: The Mission and can currently be seen
presenting Channel 4’s four part series ‘The
House The 1950s Built’ made by Wall to Wall.
As well as creating his own work, Brendan
consults on the design and production of other
popular entertainment, from theatre to theme
park rides, and most recently TV. Brendan is a
Senior Research Fellow in the Department of
Computer Science at the University of
Nottingham, a tutor at Central Saint Martins
College of Art, a consultant for the
government's Arts and Humanities Research
Council, a government champion for the sciences,
and an experienced public speaker - though
you're most likely to find him in his East End
workshop drilling big holes in things he really
shouldn't.
For further information please contact
Sara Cameron on 020 7209 3777 |
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