Timothy Crowley Sound Installation Artist

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I'm currently studying MA Fine Art at Central Saint Martins.

Final MA Show will be early July 2026, Central Saint Martins, Granary Sq. London.


In the Sound of Light


In the Sound of Light encompasses four different works of art relating to my childhood in London and Brighton. Each installation has been exhibited separately over the last year since beginning an MA.


Timothy Crowley Mount Pleasant Lane 2025 Tension exhibition CSM London _ Timothy Crowley Text etched into glass. Self-designed speaker system behind

Mount Pleasant Lane is based on what I heard from my bedroom window as a child. A sash window suspended in the exhibition space becomes a metaphor for the threshold between our inner and outer worlds and acting as a prism between past and present.

Embodying ideas of memory and how memory emerges into consciousness, and perhaps may also gradually dim again. The sound in the installation is the recording of the trains the artist used to hear passing at the bottom of the garden, and also the swishing and swooshing of cars on the road outside.


Timothy Crowley Stone Writing 2025 Open Studios MA Fine Art CSM Archway, London.
Beach pebbles, text, audio system, generative sound program. 		_ Timothy Crowley Participants are holding the pebble that they had selected and transmuted into sound to take home.

Piling pebbles is a memory from Brighton's stony beach. I collected pebbles from Newlyn beach for use in the installation, and also performed and recorded an audio work there involving piling pebbles. Rough scraping, deep knocking, sharp clinking. Dense chaotic patterns of falling pebbles between pauses of silence.

The installation itself depended on audience interaction. One person positively described it as a meditative experience and spent some time, scraping and knocking patterns of live amplifications. These sounds also feed into an ongoing generative sound composition with previous interactions.


Timothy Crowley In at the Deep End 2025 Perhaps We Should Reconsider Interim Show CSM _ Timothy Crowley Ready made with text, audio speaker system

I have made a number of visits to swim and make audio recordings at the pool I used to go to as a child with my mum. The sonic memories that brought me back there were dense splashing sounds, blooping plunges, vibrant reverberations of children's voices. I observed how little the décor had changed if at all after 40 years. There were less swimmers.

In the installation these sounds emanated from the locker compartments. In close proximity you are emersed in another sound world. The story from my childhood on the side of the locker is broken apart into posters and notices having a slow revealing quality to them.


Timothy Crowley Sound of Ice 2024 Open Studios MA Fine Art Yr1 CSM Archway
Digital photographic print and text, Murakumo white parchment paper
135x70 cm, field recording, audio wall speaker.

Another sonic memory I have from childhood is of skating with my mum at Lee Valley Ice Centre, specifically a loud scraping of a sideways skid stop on the ice rink. In 2024 I went ice skating there, I took photographs and made a sound recording. I sat outside the location, wrote about the present moment and later about the actual memory. Writing as a material seems to be something that enables me to connect both past and present.