Studio Vertigo is a UK-based art and design collective founded by artists Lucy McDonnell and Stephen Newby. Working with a multidisciplinary team, we create immersive light installations and sculptural interventions that respond to, integrate with - and sometimes gently disrupt - their surroundings. Our works transform streets, waterfronts, and public squares into shared experiences of reflection, play, and wonder. Each project begins as a dialogue between form and place: light as material, space as canvas, audience as collaborator.

Everyday life can make us blind to the environments we move through. Our practice introduces subtle contradictions in form, material, and scale so that a work can feel both out of place and perfectly attuned to its setting - interventions that momentarily alter our perception of the ordinary. By inviting people to pause, re-examine, and reconnect, we aim to reveal what’s often unseen within the everyday.

Studio Vertigo’s public art installations have appeared internationally, from Seoul and Amsterdam to Taiwan and Sydney, engaging diverse audiences and environments. Each new commission offers a moment of discovery: how can a familiar place become new again? How can an encounter pass quietly, yet linger in memory? Across these projects, our focus remains constant - to create works that briefly transform atmosphere and perception, where light, movement, and form invite us to see the world, and our place within it, a little differently.

We’re interested in the “and” - not just object and space, viewer and environment, but process and place, craft and concept, permanence and transience. Our hope is that someone walking through a passageway, plaza, or park might pause - not because we shouted look here - but because, for a moment, the space whispered look again.