Wolfgang Buttress

Receiving his early education in Cumbria, including an arts foundation course, Buttress took a fine arts degree at Nottingham Trent.On 1 July 2019, he appeared on the podcast Trees A Crowd with David Oakes and his long term collaborator, Dr Martin Bencsik.

He is well known for the UK Pavilion (Milan EXPO 2015) and The Hive, a collaboration with physicist Dr Martin Bencsik, BDP, Hoare Lea and Simmonds Studio, currently installed at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London, England.

The energy informs an ever-changing and fluid soundscape created by a selected ensemble of musicians who now write and perform under the name of BE.

Other scientific collaborations include UNA (2013), in Canberra, Australia and Lucent (2015), in Chicago, both these project express the star mapping research of astrophysicist Dr Daniel Bayliss.

Corona (2017) is a collaboration with Dr Martin Bencsik; two NASA satellites monitor the sun's activity which is expressed in real time as an ever-changing light array onto a 1,000m2 façade of the new science research hub in Nottingham, England.

Outside the UK pavilion designed by Wolfgang Buttress