About
LionHeart’s practise— through the language of performance and film— explores architecture and poetry’s relationship with emotional inhabitancy, memory, and mental health. Creating digital interventions within analogue spaces, LionHeart subverts the ineffable, instilling an emotional renaissance within architecture.
“I write for those
with walls for windows.”
Rhael ‘LionHeart’ Cape Hon FRIBA is a Multi-Disciplinary Artist, Poet, Visionary Director and former BBC Radio London Presenter.
Associate Artist of The Royal Albert Hall, Artist in Residence at 180 The Strand.
Special participant at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, curated by Lesley Lokko OBE.
An honorary fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) for his contribution to architecture.
Previously the first Poet in Residence at Saatchi Gallery, Grimshaw Architects, Snohetta, Junya Ishigami, AHMM, PLP, Squire & Partners and many more.
2024 Fallingwater Institute Artist-in-Resident, exploring the architecture by Frank Lloyd Wright.
MFAH guest performance, workshop and talk in response to the museum’s permentant collection.
Art Basel pannelist alongside Es Devlin, Hans Ulrich Obrist & Merlin Sheldrake.
Guest Speaker at the Royal College of Arts, Foster and Partners, Bjarke Ingels Group, Burberry’s Global Architecture Team.
Winner of the Davidson Prize 2021 with Haptic Architects & Squint Opera team.
Previous Guest Editor for the Wellcome Collection in relation to their ‘Living With Buildings’ exhibition.
Photos: Jumi Popoola
“Creating poetry in the same way architects create space, with function before form, to facilitate how those who occupy that space may feel. Both sheltered and exposed.
Eliciting the Emotional Renaissance in Architecture.”