WHERE MUSIC AND ART COLLIDE TO CREATE CHANGE

MUSIC SHAPED is a new project that pairs musical icons with exceptional visual artists to create works reflecting how music has influenced their lives. It starts with a recorded conversation between the visual artist and the musician, and results in the visual artist producing a new piece of work reflecting the conversation and their creative journeys.

The collaborative process sees the visual artist drawing ideas from the conversation, thinking about those catalytic moments when music shifted things; and memories - places, landscapes, environments, objects - things that are symbolic, as well as colours that hold significance, and specific music that has influenced them.

The pieces created for MUSIC SHAPED 2025 will form part of an art auction presented by Bonhams in November 2025, with proceeds going to In Place of War’s #HackMusic Programme. This provides critical catalyst funding to support the development of essential life-changing music projects with indigenous communities; LGBTQI+ artists; artists in conflict zones; and artists responding to the climate crisis.

For enquiries, please get in touch with Rozenn Logan: roz@inplaceofwar.net