Craig & Karl – Installation work
Adding depth
If you’ve been following Craig & Karl’s journey as artists, you’ll know they’ve moved well beyond their original two-dimensional pieces, with their bold outlines, striking colours and patterns. When opportunities arose to put their artistic style into 3D environments like a disused petrol station opposite the BBC’s former Television Centre, they jumped at it and created ‘Here After’.
They quickly moved on to even more ambitious projects where they could actually build the shapes and forms they’d previously painted, bringing them into the real world.
Here, we showcase a few of the most impressive experiential projects Craig & Karl have been involved with in recent years.
Cosmos – Melbourne Central, Melbourne, Australia
Melbourne Central is a huge shopping centre in Melbourne’s central business district, with over 300 retailers on five levels.
Craig & Karl filled the central space of the centre with brightly coloured and patterned inflatables, with rings, star-shapes, and balls among the shapes, some of them in the form of friendly looking characters. They served to create a fun and welcoming immersive space
Mateys – Eslite Life 480, Taiwan
A bookshop cum ‘city art museum’. Eslite Life 480 is a store covering close to 23,000 square metres over eight floors in Taichung’s Xitun District in Taiwan. To celebrate its grand opening, Craig & Karl created an immersive art installation of inflatables in a variety of shapes, colours and friendly smiling faces in its exterior courtyard to welcome visitors.
Prismatic – Sai Lau Kok Garden, Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong
A series of patterned surfaces and large geometric sculptures that completely transformed the green leisure space of Sai Lau Kok Garden in the centre of Tsuen Wan as part of the Design District Hong Kong event.
Mini Golf – Canary Wharf
Craig & Karl designed a 9-hole mini-golf course at Montgomery Square in London’s Canary Wharf, with obstacles including a neon orange jump ramp, a pink and yellow chequered bridge and a polka-dotted barrier. Fabrication was by The White Wall Company.
Mosaic – Target Times Square
A mosaic consisting of over a million tiles providing a literal welcome to visitors to Target‘s Times Square store in New York.
Public seating – Guildford Town Center, Vancouver, Canada
Transforming a paved public space in Vancouver into an area where people can enjoy sitting and catching up over coffee on unusually shaped, brightly coloured, striped and polka-dotted seating.
Unfold – Suzhou, China
With Craig & Karl’s signature bold colours and patterns this large-scale space in Suzhou, China stands out from its surroundings. Comprising flooring and building block-like towers and walls, ‘Unfold’ expresses ideas of growth and evolution, especially with the video animations built into the sculptures suggesting a constant cycle of change encouraging the viewer to look forward to whatever comes next.
Island – Suzhou Yanlord Cangjie, China
Suzhou Yanlord Cangjie is a newly built urban community consisting of retail space, public space and cultural environments, with buildings reflecting traditional Chinese architecture. ‘Island’ is a sculpture Craig & Karl based on a series of their illustrations which incorporated local iconography and the year of the dragon, all reflected through the prism of an island. Plus, in its 3D form, the whole piece spins on its central axis.
Chromagic – Siam Center, Bangkok
‘Chromagic‘ at the Siam Center saw Craig & Karl suspend an installation over three storeys of gaily coloured and patterned column slices, eye shapes and blocks allowing people to walk under and around to see something new from every possible angle.
Here and There – PyongTaek, South Korea
Craig & Karl’s first permanent work was unveiled in 2025, in PyongTaek, South Korea. Made of steel and enamel, ‘Here and There’ was an idea originally developed in 2021, it’s globular shapes looking somewhere between sweets, alien flowers and totem poles.
Love Struck – Macao, China
‘Love Struck’ is an installation at the hotel The Venetian, Macao as part of Art Macao: Macao International Art Biennale 2025. It takes inspiration from the classical architectural stylings of The Venetian to create a contemporary version of a Roman fountain. Historically, fountains have represented prosperity and hope, and this piece of public art follows that tradition, the stylised cupid-like figure at its centre symbolising a positive wish for good fortune to those who engage with the piece.
