Rob Lye (b. 1982, Wiltshire) is a London-based artist, filmmaker and musician. Working across moving image, spatial sound, installation and performance, his practice explores listening as a method for understanding relationships between landscape, memory, time and the body. Drawing on field recording, expanded cinema and research-led processes, his work often examines sites shaped by industrial, ecological and social histories.
Recent projects have focused on the River Avon in Wiltshire, lithium extraction in Bolivia, and Arctic landscapes in Svalbard, exploring themes of deep time, grief, consciousness and environmental change. His work has been presented at venues including ICA, Whitechapel Gallery, Modern Art Oxford, Café Oto, LUX and OUTPOST. He graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2011 and is currently Artist-in-Residence at the Gerald Moore Gallery.