GR-AMALDI 2025 ART SHOW

As part of the GR-Amaldi 2025 meeting artists from around the world shared their creativity with their science-inspired artworks.

Artworks were displayed around the conference venue and in this online gallery. Click on each image to view the full image as well as information about the artwork and the artist.

Note that the rights to all artworks are retained by the artists. The artworks should not be reused without the permission of the artist.

Geometric painting with a blue and green symmetrical star-like shape beneath a rectangular gradient delineated by thread on a dark blue background. Abstract painting with intersecting triangular sections in gray, blue, red, and beige, with a curved line running across the center. A wall-mounted sculpture of a blue cubic 3D-printed form displayed on a wooden sconce.
A digital illustration of two merging black holes. The image is mostly black with some stars and swirling colors. A minimalist spiral composed of interconnected circles of decreasing size, representing the process of black hole evaporation or the abstract passage of time. Abstract painting of a human silhouette filled with swirling, vibrant colors and interconnected shapes, symbolizing the transformation from confusion to clarity as a research idea forms.
Monty and Carla, adorable round characters wearing small backpacks overlooking the peak of a probability distribution, rising like a distant mountain. Monty is looking at a map, but Carla points the way. The distant peak has many similarly cute, round characters jumping around it, but being distant they are much smaller. Deterministic chaotic oscillations in a Bianchi-IX cosmological evolution. My artwork shows the shadows of 3 scientists standing on a rug which is woven from support and funding towards science and minorities. They are shown as missing because the “rug” beneath their feet is getting accreted onto the primary black hole of war spending, that countries use to flex power. This is anti-aligned with the secondary black hole of the shameful and less talked about consequences of such unsustainable spending. But both black holes..war and its consequences are about to merge.
A photo of a lawn seen from above. By cutting the grass a figure of interference has been created. People are walking around in the area. A photo of a sculpture made of bent and intertwined metal tubes, the tubes form four P shapes in a cross formation. The bottom “legs” of the four P shapes are pointy and sharp. A photo of an interactive installation. A blue grid is projected on a wall, two people are in front of the wall and a deformation appears in the grid corresponding to the position of their bodies.
Chalk drawing on black background. Different colours of swirling chalk lines, spirals, and circles. A black hole, surrounded by its accretion disk, rises above the horizon behind a tall tower. The tower casts a shadow on the reflection of the accretion disk on the ground, which has the shape of the first detected gravitational-wave signal. Representing a binary neutron star merger in watercolour. The centre of the image shows two blue circles, which are deformed and merging together - representing the binary neutron stars merging. Around them, there are colourful shapes in reds, pinks, blues, yellows against a black background. The shapes convey the moment of the binary neutron stars around each other.
All multi-planetary systems obey the quantization of angular momentum per unit mass as predicted by Quantum Celestial Mechanics (QCM). Our beautiful neighbouring galaxy, Andromeda. I love that this image shows the vastness of space through the deep sky observation and the incredible number of stars surrounding it. The wide focal length the photo was taken at definitely helps to show this, where focus is brought to the whole image rather than just the galaxy. Looking at it gives both a sense of solitude and curiosity. Solitude in that it puts life into perspective, and curiosity in that it shows huge potential for other worlds to exist out there, unbeknownst to us. The Orion Constellation with a little visit from the Aurora. The storm created this gorgeous red arc that stretched right across the sky from Jupiter to Orion. It positioned itself beautifully over Barnard's Loop and the Rosette Nebula, both of which are still visible in the image. I love that the photo captures one unique point of the Aurora's dance in the sky. It is a magical presentation of naturally dark, clear skies colliding with a display of the Northern Lights. A beautiful moment where the environments of the night appear to be in conversation.
Two white/light-blue spheres in the centre represent two objects orbiting each other. They are placed on a black and blue surface which is rippling in concentric circles representing the gravitational waves. A pencil drawing of the biggest objects in the Universe by Albert (aged 8 years). The image shows three objects: on the left a large pink object labelled Stephenson 2-18; in the middle a black circle with a yellow and orange boarder labelled Ton 618; and on the right a large yellow object labelled QuasiStern. This is a black hole line-up from the smallest we know about to the largest in the Universe. Painted in 2024 by Albert (8 years old).
The starship Enterprise travels through space, over a backdrop of stars, nebulae, and a distant black hole with a shining accretion disk and distorting the stars behind. A photo of stones arranged on the ground. There are two large stones in the centre representing black holes or neutron stars. Smaller stones are arranged in spirals around them representing gravitational waves. A red swirlling pair of circles with rough edges conveying a supernova explosion. From the artist: 'I imagined and painted Eta Carinae undergoing a supernova explosion generating tiny amounts of gravitational waves'.
The upper part of the image shows a pair of black holes swirling around each other against a starry background. The lower part of the image shows the gravitational-wave signal as a time-frequency representation - it is a blue area with a green banana shape for the signal. Between the upper and lower part of the image, there is a red L shape, conveying the gravitational-wave observatories which are L-shaped. A pair of neutron stars shown as blue orbs colliding together and merging together dramatically. There are swirling blue lines around them and a starry background. A retro travel poster for LIGO Hanford. The image shows a desert landscape with mountains on the horizon. In the foreground there is a long light grey structure representing one of the arms of the LIGO Hanford obserservatory. Alongside the arm there is a road with a car driving along it. A green tree/shrub is shown in the foreground to the right and to the left there are some tubbleweeds on the roadside.
A six panel comic strip. The title across the top says 'Gone Fishing'. The first panel, a line-drawn figure is sat by the pond of space-time with a fishing rod and looking board and frustrated. In the second panel, the fishing line is rippling in the shape of a gravitational-wave signal. In the third panel, the fishing line has emerged from the pond having caught a black hole. In the fourth panel, the fishing figure is being drawn towards the black hole. In the fifth and sixth panels, the figure is pulled towards and into the black hole! Oil on canvas painting. The painting has blues of different shades with some red and orange areas. Oil on canvas painting. A vinyl turntable spins not a record, but a vivid spiral galaxy, with its luminous core and swirling arms painted in cosmic blues, purples, and stars. The needle hovers delicately over this universe, suggesting that existence itself is a track being played into being.
Papier-mâché in bright red and yellow shades, representing the emission of gravitational-wave. Two spherical black clay blocks representing the two black holes. Papier-mâché representing the emission of gravitational waves from two spherical clay blocks, painted differently to represent a black hole and a neutron star. A 3D skymap represented as a structure appearing in a fortune's teller sphere, placed on a decorated tablecloth.
The part-blueish part-reddish white web unfurls its branches within the black starry sky. Down in the middle, a galaxy cluster seems to be the source of the entire network with its two main arms generating the fractal pattern, while, on the bottom right, a piece of paper covers a fraction of the cosmos. The painting represents a view of the park of Meudon Observatory as seen from the edge of the woods when heading for the Dome of the Equatorial Table and its adjacent buildings half hidden by the vegetation. The trees in the foreground shine with the golden colors of autumn beginning and the Dome reflects the azure sky. A supernova, remnant in the form of the Crab Nebula, has burst a paper wall behind which we look at the painting. The torn white paper contrasts with the black sky which is a setting for the nebula which spreads its colored arms cut on the starry sky.
Art works depicting the chaotic natures of neutron stars in merging systems. A digital image showing a bright orb with a colourful cloud surrounding it (in blues, yellows and reds). Two beams of light come from the orb one going up and the other going down. A spacey background shows shows distant stars. Art works depicting the chaotic natures of neutron stars in merging systems. On the left there is a bright circular object in blues and whites. On the right there is a larger black circular object depicting a black hole. There are clouds and dust around them obscuring part of the objects. The background shows space and distant stars. Art works depicting the chaotic natures of neutron stars in merging systems. A space scene showing a bright beam of light comes from a distant object, which is so bright it is obscured by the light. Around the object there is a cloud of dust and gas in reds, blues and yellows. Further away, distant stars can be seen on a black background.
Two black spheres are shown in the centre of the picture, representing a binary black hole. Their orbiting paths are shown as thin grey lines tracing their path around each other. The background is a colourful display of oranges, blues, greens and pinks representing the gravitational waves. Two black spheres are shown in the centre of the picture, representing a binary black hole. One sphere is much smaller than the other and both are distorted in shape. The background is a colourful display of oranges and pinks representing the gravitational waves. The image shows a colourful display of lines and shapes in greens, blues and reds, originating from a central point. These represent the gravitational waves being emitted by a pair of black holes orbiting each other. The background shows stars against a black background representing space.
This montage of collaboration members, forming the letters LVK, was created for a Gravitational-Wave astronomy exhibit displayed at the 2022 and 2024 Oman Science Festival, as part of a pavilion highlighting the latest discoveries in astrophysics, cosmology and particle physics. A pen sketch in black and white. The view is into a part of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. It is like looking into a tunnel with many components of the machine all around shown as fine-line drawings of circles and squares leading to a central circular component. Two plots. Both plots show a bright area in the centre. The top plot is mostly blue with a bright (yellow/red) area in the middle. The bottom plot is mostly red with a bright (yellow/green/blue) area in the middle.
A starry background in black, pinks, blues and purples. Across the background is the outline of a snail.

The photos below show the artwork as it was displayed in the poster hall during the GR-Amaldi Conference.

The artworks on display at the conference. The images are shown on blue poster boards. The artworks on display at the conference. The images are shown on blue poster boards. The artworks on display at the conference. The images are shown on blue poster boards.
The artworks on display at the conference. The images are shown on blue poster boards. The artworks on display at the conference. The images are shown on blue poster boards. The artworks on display at the conference. The images are shown on blue poster boards.