'Chrysalis Machine' is a hybrid creature suspended between nature and technology. Motors, crankshafts, and pumps drive its metamorphosis, neither fully organic nor mechanical, but something in between. The work questions where humanity ends and machine begins, dissolving the boundaries we draw between the natural and artificial worlds.

Rush Drayton is a sculptor and mechanical design engineer whose practice examines the changing relationship between humans, technology, and the natural world. Working across sculpture, robotics, and material experimentation, he draws on engineering and scientific processes to create objects and systems that blur distinctions between the artificial and organic.

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Drayton holds a dual Master’s in Innovation Design Engineering from the Royal College of Art and Imperial College London, where he developed an interdisciplinary approach spanning scientific research and speculative design.

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Based between London and Sydney, his work considers how emerging technologies might reshape our understanding of nature, agency, and coexistence.

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