tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37748351002780897362024-03-05T22:01:15.923+00:00Imagining SciencePolymathic art & science collaborativeUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger98125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3774835100278089736.post-30748723396233471782017-02-27T16:57:00.003+00:002018-10-22T09:38:56.350+01:00Blog on hiatus<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Hi there - Imagining Science is currently on hiatus, however as individual artists, we're always working! Below are some details of where you can find us;<br />
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You can join <a href="https://www.immysmith.net/" target="_blank">Immy Smith</a> on Patreon <a href="http://www.patreon.com/immysmith" target="_blank">here</a>, and you can buy the Cryptic Cards <a href="http://etsy.me/2frYzdH" target="_blank">here</a>;<br />
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<a href="http://michelleanderst.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Michelle Anderst is on Tumblr here</a>, and you can find her latest work <a href="http://www.michelleanderstshop.com/" target="_blank">in her store here</a>;<br />
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<a href="http://www.sallyhunter.co.uk/index.asp" target="_blank">Sal Hunter</a> is on <a href="http://salhunter.deviantart.com/" target="_blank">deviantART here</a>, and you can<a href="http://www.sallyhunter.co.uk/book.asp" target="_blank"> buy her artbook 'Note to Self' here</a>;<br />
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Scott Mantooth is on <a href="http://scottman2th.deviantart.com/" target="_blank">deviantART here</a>.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3774835100278089736.post-65283632401026406282016-11-28T13:21:00.000+00:002016-11-28T13:21:55.327+00:00Imagining Science this autumn 4: Immy Smith's Cryptic Cards project<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This autumn Immy Smith completed the 'Cryptic Cards', a sciart project to create a deck of playing card designs in homage to the amazing cryptic camouflage found in moths. More details are below, and you can get your own deck <a href="http://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/ImmySmithArt" target="_blank">here</a> www.etsy.com/uk/shop/ImmySmithArt<br />
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That's the question I asked myself after I completed work on Imagining Science's 'Symbiosis' lichen themed project. I'd studied the many ways crypsis (the ability of animals and some plants to avoid detection thanks to camouflage, mimicry, etc) helps creatures camouflage themselves against lichens. Moths have evolved patterns that blend in with many natural backgrounds, including bark, lichen, and dead leaves. I started to wonder whether in thousands of years, we’ll find them hiding on human-made objects; on advertising posters, newspapers, or discarded tickets. While painting on tickets and books, I also painted a few moths on playing cards. Thanks to the support of friends and they sciart community on Twitter, I soon began the 'Cryptic Cards' project to make a real cryptic deck!</div>
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I painted one design a week, carefully using Acryl Gouache to camouflage my painted moths into the card designs. You can see videos of the paintings below! I crowdfunded the deck when the artwork was nearing completion on Kickstarter, and shared peeks of the artwork with lovely backers along the way. I had a lot of support from the cardistry community too. Very few decks have every card face uniquely customised, and I'm really proud of what I've achieved! (Not least because I had a problem with my spine just after the project started, had spine surgery last year, and now contend with chronic pain.)</div>
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Playing cards are ideal for a year long project, given the 52 cards in a standard deck, and I plan to do more decks - I'm aiming for one every two years. There were problems to overcome during the Cryptic Cards project, not least that he original deck printers were unable to provide decks of adequate quality, and I had to switch printer... That meant moving all the artwork to new templates, and learning new software in order to meet new requirements. There's another blog post there on running a project which I'll save for another day! I can't say it was easy, but I learned a huge amount about printing, design software, etc. all of which I can use in future projects, so I think it was worthwhile! I will continue to make decks where every card is unique, and hope to find more sciart themes and cryptic colour schemes that make beautiful poker decks with sneaky science learning included. In the meantime you can read about the project <a href="http://imaginingscience.tumblr.com/crypticcards" target="_blank">here</a>, and see the Kickstarter <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/immysmith/cryptic-cards-a-curiously-camouflaged-playing-card" target="_blank">here</a>. </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3774835100278089736.post-8900990149965451882016-11-15T00:20:00.001+00:002016-11-15T00:20:13.680+00:00Imagining Science this Autumn 3; Leafscape - an inspiring project by Jess Shepherd (aka Inky Leaves)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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For those of you not familiar with Inky Leaves already, prepare to delve into the intricately detailed & textural world of leaves like never before. For some time now, I've followed <a href="https://twitter.com/InkyLeaves" target="_blank">Inky leaves on Twitter</a>, and been fascinated by the 'Giants in Thimbles' <a href="http://inkyleaves.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">blog posts about this project</a>; lacing together in-depth exploration (in both art and words) of wide ranging themes on scale and sound, edges and boundaries, environment and home. Leafscape has seen Inky Leaves produce giant paintings of tiny details, lifting up leaf surfaces & textures in a way that feels like I'm walking into a borderless microscope image. I'm so happy that this project has now lead to an exhibition, and a book - with it's own soundtrack, and "a map of sorts" to line it. This has been funded by <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inkyleaves/leafscape-a-limited-edition-art-book-by-inky-leave" target="_blank">this Kickstarter.</a>.. So go there and secure your copy before the crowdfunding finishes!<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3774835100278089736.post-66469350642005632662016-11-02T23:05:00.000+00:002016-11-04T11:14:24.594+00:00Imagining Science this Autumn 2 - Meredith Woolnough's New Work<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Last year we wrote about <a href="http://imaginingscienceart.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/unconventional-plant-forms-part-2.html" target="_blank">Meredith Woolnough's eye-wateringly beautiful and cunningly constructed thread sculptures</a>. This year Meredith is taking part in the <a href="http://arcadianartists.com.au/" target="_blank">Arcadian Artist's exhibition & art trail</a> on 12th-13th Nov, in Arcadia, Australia, and is showing works at </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">34 Muraban Rd, Dural, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">10am - 3pm.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> These latest works depicting intricate organic patterns can be seen below. Meredith has shared details of the new pieces ahead of time because they're always very popular! So if you're a SciArt lover in the right part of the world, and have your eye on one of these amazing structural works, get there early! </span><br />
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You can keep up with Meredith's work and make contact to discuss the works via her website <a href="http://www.meredithwoolnough.com/" target="_blank">here</a>, and you can also get more insight into her work via <a href="https://www.facebook.com/meredithwoolnoughartist/" target="_blank">her facebook page</a> or her blog <a href="http://meredithwoolnough.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">here</a>. You can also find more details of the art trail <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ArcadianArtists/?hc_location=ufi" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3774835100278089736.post-6495574291595015592016-10-27T12:26:00.001+01:002016-10-31T20:52:57.668+00:00Imagining Science this Autumn - 1: Michelle Anderst at Ghost Gallery, Seattle, USA<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Ahh you have to love autumn. The first few posts now we're back this month will be about how & where you can find us enjoying the season, including Michelle Anderst's next exhibition, and Immy Smith's <a href="http://etsy.me/2dZ3AZ0" target="_blank">Cryptic Cards</a>.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #4b4f56;">10-Nov-16 to 4-Dec-16 - Ghost Gallery, Seatle, USA</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #4b4f56;">Michelle Anderst's new series of work is a deep exploration of the nature of numbers. Numbers one through seven are used as a way to better understand nature which rests on an internal foundation of archetypal principles symbolized by numbers, shapes, and their geometric relationships. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4b4f56;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4b4f56;">Anderst utilizes her education in biology and scientific illustration as an exploration of the intricacies of nature. Evolutionary concepts are combined with symbols and knowledge from ancient belief systems to depict the beautif</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #4b4f56; display: inline;">ul inter-connectivity between organic structures. </span></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3774835100278089736.post-55365707507236570882016-06-08T21:42:00.000+01:002016-06-08T21:42:11.455+01:00Summer at Imagining Science<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Summer is always a busy time for workshops and exhibitions, so the blog will be a little quiet until the autumn! We will update the <a href="http://imaginingscienceart.blogspot.co.uk/p/news.html" target="_blank">news and events page </a> though, and here's what's going on right now;<br />
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<a href="http://www.immysmith.com/">Immy Smith</a> will be running a sciart ink workshop at the <a href="http://www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/events/adults/lates" target="_blank">National Media Museum 'Lates' event</a> in Bradford on the evening of 16th June - come along to see brains down the microscope and make science-inspired ink art! Immy successfully crowdfunded the <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/immysmith/cryptic-cards-a-curiously-camouflaged-playing-card" target="_blank">'Cryptic Cards' project via Kickstarter</a>, and will be dedicating studio time between now and October to completing the deck. Stay tuned for more news of when remaining decks will be sold online!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://imaginingscience.tumblr.com/post/145623946578/michelleanderst-violaceous-queen-by-michelle" target="_blank">Michelle Anderst's latest work can be seen in Axis Gallery, Seattle, US and on her blog</a></td></tr>
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<a href="http://michelleanderst.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Michelle Anderst</a>'s work is currently in exhibition at <a href="http://axispioneersquare.com/strange_paradise/" target="_blank">Axis Gallery in Seattle</a>, and purchase enquiries may be directed to verapashphotos@gmail.com.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3774835100278089736.post-3973612236837100442016-04-19T19:27:00.002+01:002016-04-20T23:33:56.532+01:00Exhibition News: Michelle Anderst in 'Human Nature', Immy Smith in 'Transitional Objects' <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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If you enjoy our sciart, then there's something on either side of the big blue Atlantic for you this month! From both <a href="http://michelleanderst.com/">Michelle Anderst</a> & <a href="http://www.immysmith.com/">Immy Smith</a>.<b> </b></div>
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<b>7-28 April 2016<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">: 'Human Nature' at Artifact Gallery, </span></span>313 First Ave S, Suite B, Seattle, <span style="font-size: small;">USA</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">If you're in the NW of US</span><span style="font-size: small;">A you can catch <a href="http://animaanimus.bigcartel.com/artist/michelle-anderst" target="_blank">Michelle Anderst'</a>s work with that of 6 other artists, in 'Human Nature' at </span><a href="http://www.artifact-gallery.com/shows/" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Artifact Gallery in Seattle.</span></b></a></div>
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<b>2-30 April 2016: <a href="http://www.strong-island.co.uk/2016/04/08/transitional-objects-exhibition-by-immy-smith-at-strong-island-co/" target="_blank">'Transitional Objects' at Strong Island,</a> 12 Highlands Rd, Southsea, UK</b><br />
If you're on the UK south coast, you can drop by Strong Island in Southsea to see a collection of solo works from Immy Smith's <a href="http://www.strong-island.co.uk/2016/04/08/transitional-objects-exhibition-by-immy-smith-at-strong-island-co/" target="_blank"><b>'Transitional Objects'</b></a> project (and if you're quick, you can catch Immy's work in <a href="http://imaginingscienceart.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/connecting-narratives-aspex-portsmouth.html" target="_blank">'Connecting Narratives'</a> is up at <b><a href="http://aspex.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/connecting-narratives-immy-smith/" target="_blank">Aspex Gallery</a></b> too!) <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Immy Smith - 'Last Time Twice' - purchase enquiries to <a href="mailto:contact@strong-island.co.uk" target="_blank">contact@strong-island.co.uk</a></td></tr>
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You can find out more about all our goings on at our News & events page <a href="http://imaginingscienceart.blogspot.co.uk/p/news.html" target="_blank">here</a>.You can also find Immy Smith's '<a href="http://imaginingscience.tumblr.com/crypticcards" target="_blank">Cryptic Cards</a>' project kickstarter <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/immysmith/cryptic-cards-a-curiously-camouflaged-playing-card" target="_blank">here</a>, and Sal Hunter's latest <a href="http://imaginingscienceart.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/keep-up-with-sal-hunters-biofilter.html" target="_blank">biofilter</a> project experiment <a href="http://imaginingscienceart.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/take-part-in-sal-hunters-biofilter.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>
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Regular followers of Imagining Science may remember <a href="http://imaginingscienceart.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/keep-up-with-sal-hunters-biofilter.html" target="_blank">Sal Hunter's Biofilter Project</a>. Well now there's a chance for us all to contribute to Sal's ongoing experiments, by taking part in an image analysis experiment! You don't need to be an artist, a scientist, or a sciartist to take part; all you need is a graphics program that uses layers (Photoshop, Artrage, or Manga Studio for example.) Help gather data and take part in experimental sciart, as explained by Sal below;<br />
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Image
analysis, used to describe particular features of an image, is
important in science. The need to characterise brain pathologies in as
standard a way as possible underpins much of the work I do in the area
of brain ageing. Most of the work describing what happens in the brain
during ageing relies on neuropathologists examining very thin sections
from the brain for features associated with disease. Often these
features are marked by special stains that pick out specific forms that
represent abnormalities inside cells and these can be counted to
estimate the severity of disease processes. It is painstaking work
involving many hundreds of sections and can take months to do. It is the
kind of job that could benefit from a computerised automatic system and
integrated microscope and image analysis equipment is available, though
very expensive, at around $300,000 to buy and around $35,000 per year
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As part of the <a href="http://salhunter.deviantart.com/gallery/34146119/Biofilters" target="_blank">Biofilter Project</a>,
I want to see if these automated image analysis systems really can
compare to human interpretations of complex images. Therefore, I am
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across the set of drawings that would be ideal for image analysis. In
order to get an idea of how well humans do, I need a baseline set of
counts to compare with analysis by computer. Anyone with a graphics
program that allows the addition of a new layer can participate.</div>
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The
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where the Holes have been marked by red on a new layer and the resulting
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The
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layer to me for counting - the following detailed instructions describe
how to do this. It should take around an hour. In return, I give
everyone who completes the task the permission to print out the high
resolution image for their own non-commercial use as a gift to say thank
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<li>Download the 3000x3000 pixel experimental image file "Specimen - 34" via the download button here; <a href="http://salhunter.deviantart.com/art/Specimen-34-436207349">http://salhunter.deviantart.com/art/Specimen-34-436207349</a></li>
<li>Open the file in your graphics program</li>
<li>Check the file is 3000x3000 pixels in dimension.</li>
<li>Add a new layer</li>
<li>Select a paint brush or drawing tool at around 10 - 20 pixels with a hard edge</li>
<li>Select a strong red colour</li>
<li>While on the new layer, mark each hole that you find with a single red dot using your selected drawing tool</li>
<li>It is advisable to “save as” a new file and keep saving every so often!</li>
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you are happy that you have marked all the holes you can find, save the
new layer as a separate file in .jpg format at high quality (image
quality of around 5 should be OK). The image should still have
dimensions of 3000x3000 pixels</li>
<li>Send me the resultant .jpg file of red dots - email to sal DOT hunter AT ntlworld DOT com (I'm sure you all know how to edit this - no spaces)</li>
<li>In your email I would also like to know if you are mainly an artist, a scientist, neither or both</li>
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<b><b>Find out more about Immy Smith's '<a href="http://aspex.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/connecting-narratives-immy-smith/" target="_blank">Connecting Narratives</a>' exhibition and workshops at <a href="http://aspex.org.uk/" target="_blank">Aspex</a> in Gunwharf Keys, Portsmouth, UK</b> </b><br />
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This exhibition of artwork from the '<a href="http://connectingnarratives.tumblr.com/project" target="_blank">Connecting Narratives</a>' residency, aims to tackle the scientific and personal challenges posed by brain tumours using art. It contains several artworks that are interactive - participants can draw over the works or move parts of them around. It includes the final outcome of the Heterogeneity Experiment which formed part of the '<a href="http://imaginingscienceart.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/patterns-of-mutation-exhibition-and.html" target="_blank">Patterns of Mutation</a>' exhibition at the British Science Festival 2015. The 'Connecting Brain Tumour Narratives' giant handmade book will be there including live drawing, and there is a short video from the artist about its production.<b> </b><br />
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<i>Exhibition; </i><br />
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<b>When: 10</b>th February - 22th April 2016</div>
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<b>Opening times:</b> 11am - 4pm Weds - Sun @ <a href="http://aspex.org.uk/visit/" target="_blank">Aspex</a><i><br /></i></div>
<b>Links: </b><a href="http://connectingnarratives.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Residency Blog</a><br />
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<i>Live drawing - Drawing in the Connecting Narratives Book</i><br />
<b>When:</b> 11.30am - 2.00pm 10th February, 20th February, 19th March @ <a href="http://aspex.org.uk/visit/" target="_blank">Aspex</a><i><br /></i><br />
<a href="http://connectingnarratives.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Updates will be posted on residency blog</a><br />
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<i><a href="http://aspex.org.uk/whats-on/participation/family-drawing-workshops/" target="_blank">Workshops</a>;</i><br />
<b>When:</b> 2pm-4pm @ <a href="http://aspex.org.uk/visit/" target="_blank">Aspex</a><i><br /></i><br />
February 20th - Beauty of fractals<br />
March 19th - Brain cell patterns & learn about brain tumour research<br />
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Immy will run an additional workshop on the technique of drawing with grids @ Aspex on 31st March 10am-3pm<br />
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Connecting Narratives was a Leverhulme-funded
interdisciplinary artist’s residency, in which artist Immy Smith worked
at Portsmouth University’s Brain Tumour Research Centre. The project
aimed to use visual art to investigate, illustrate and connect stories;
both the scientific stories of brain tumour, and the human narratives of
patients, family members, and carers affected by brain tumours. In the
ongoing ‘Connecting Brain Tumour Narratives’ project, the artist and
scientists are working together, with the help of the charity Brain
Tumour Research, patients, family members, and advocates, to explore the
distinct challenges of brain tumours from many angles. Its success has
led to continued interdisciplinary relationships, with Immy Smith now
visiting artist with the group while further research is planned and
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The artworks explore features underlying the unique challenges of
brain tumours, which remain some of the most difficult cancers to treat.
Large-scale ink artworks use pattern, colour, and visual games to
confront the characteristics of cancer, and engage the viewer with
biological factors that make brain tumours particularly devastating
diseases. Through a large format book, imagery and objects important to
different people involved in brain tumours and their research are
investigated. The aim is to explore the intersection of scientific
research and personal experiences, seeking connections, and sharing
narratives with a wider audience. The project attempts to use
non-exclusive imagery – objects, images, or patterns accessible to scientists, patients, and lay viewers
alike - to make both the scientific and the personal aspects of these
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ren<span style="font-family: inherit;">ee Brown <span style="font-family: inherit;">creates alchemical crystal structures, turning minerals in the form of clay into an array of new and imaginary crystalline forms. Here at Imagining Science, we've been fortunate enough to learn from the practice of many artists that inspire us. <span style="font-family: inherit;">With this in mind, and <span style="font-family: inherit;">i</span></span>nspired by <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Renee</span>'s</span> ceramic artwork, Immy Smit<span style="font-family: inherit;">h asked <span style="font-family: inherit;">some questions <span style="font-family: inherit;">about <span style="font-family: inherit;">the practice</span> <span style="font-family: inherit;">Renee</span> uses to produce these unique pieces. The result below is a fascinating read, which we hope will inspire you too! All the images here are Renee's ceramics, and you can<span style="font-family: inherit;"> find a full portfolio <a href="http://reneebrownceramics.com/portfolio.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>IS: How would you describe your practice, and what inspired you to start making such beautifully unusual works? They seem unique, I can't think of any ceramics quite like them.</b><br />RB: My practice is: Work from general to specific. I make all these little pieces, but don’t really know how they will come together. I love making sure every ‘crystal’ looks great from all sides because I don’t know how it will eventually fit into the composition. There is a satisfying honesty found in the pieces when there is no ‘bad’ side to consider. After finishing all the pieces, I start thinking about which ones go into a specific sculpture. I also practice non-attachment. By this I mean that I am always watching how the pieces want to fit together, and I try to loosen my grip on my attachment to my initial vision. I have found intuition and composition planning are two different energies. When I give over to intuition the piece seams to take on a life of its own. When I see the piece breathe, I know I am making my best work. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">RB: Yes, I’m kind of a geek (I mean that in the best sense, of course). When I watch TV, it is either Discovery, History, or Sci Fi. I have always been a rock hound, but it was one day in a bead store that changed the direction of my work forever. I was holding pieces of Pyrite, Amazonite and a bead made from bone in my hand. As I formed a composition of the tiny objects in my hand, I thought, “Wouldn’t it be cool if this were 2 feet tall instead of two inches tall….” The rest evolved as I forged forward with the concept. My minerals reference both actual forms and imaginary forms. Sometimes I make up fanciful names, sometimes I call it exactly what it is representing. Often, I start with a form that references an actual mineral and then assimilate it into my visual language by changing the texture or color. So yes, it is a kind of alchemy. Many times, after completing a composition, I feel magic has occurred.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /><b>IS: Many of your works feature fine, slender crystal forms, that appear very delicate. Have you developed any specific techniques to create such seemingly fragile structures? (And come to think of it... are they actually fragile or is that an illusion?)</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> </b><br />RB: Oh yes, Some are crazy delicate. But here is the upside: the breaking of some forms in my studio has actually helped me in ways. Sometimes a piece breaks and the form is better than before. In fact, I now excavate my own work in search of new compositions. I recently broke apart a large piece in order to use the crystals in a new smaller piece. And last spring, right before a museum show, I was unhappy with one of the pieces. I felt it would be resolved if ‘that chunk right there’ were gone. The night before my install, I took my chisel in one hand, my hammer in the other and d<span style="font-family: inherit;">on</span>ned my protective eye wear. I positioned the chisel and moved my hammer over the piece in practice blows: I knew I had one shot. I whispered, “Please let it be good. Please let it be good”…..Wham! It was good. Gotta take risks, right?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /><b>IS: What (if any) limitations do you find in the structures you can create using ceramics? Have you had to overcome any material related obstacles to make the unusual shapes you want?</b><br /><br />RB: Transparency is the biggest obstacle with Clay. I have begun introducing glass into the work to balance this out. I am also using wood and other multi-media. I am somewhat shameless about what materials I use. If I need to cover zip-ties in crushed glass to achieve a fine crystal formation, I do it. While I am formally trained as a Ceramist, I have begun to associate myself with the more general term of artist. I find it freeing to assert a broader field of conceptual possibilities in realizing my visions. </span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3774835100278089736.post-6550886028346260112015-11-23T18:30:00.000+00:002015-11-26T18:48:35.703+00:00Keep up with Sal Hunter's 'Biofilter' Project<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://sallyhunter.co.uk/" target="_blank">Sal Hunter</a> continues to work on her inspirational 'Biofilter Project', which we wrote about <a href="http://imaginingscienceart.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/sally-hunters-biofilter-specimens.html" target="_blank">here</a>. You can keep up with her ongoing progress via a folder she has set up <a href="http://salhunter.deviantart.com/gallery/34146119/Biofilters" target="_blank">here</a><br />
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As a reminder, here are some of Sal's thoughts on the exquisite project, and some arrangements of a small number of the works so far...<br />
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"Natural patterns are complex and often hard to understand. Sometimes
there are associations between particular features, such as the
association between a pathogen and a disease, that are obvious. In other
cases, associations can be a mix of partial contributions from many
directions, as seen in the associations between genes, environment
factors and disease processes such as cancer or dementia. Understanding
complex natural processes is best pursued from a variety of experimental
approaches, as no single piece of evidence can describe the whole
process. One of the greatest rewards in science is finding patterns in a
mass of data. Being the first to see something important and sense
that, for a brief time at least, you are the only person in the world
who has seen this, is a buzz like no other. <br /><br />The filter paper
project began from the idea that I could give a sense of the challenge
of an open ended investigation to a viewer by creating a complex dataset
that allows the viewer to investigate patterns for themselves. The
human brain appears to be very good at finding patterns, and without
giving too much away at this stage, there should be some interesting
patterns to find."</div>
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"The entire project has a random element, so that a population of filter
papers will be created with different features that can be combined in
multiple ways. Each filter paper by itself is a data point and while it
may represent some idea and can be appreciated on its own, the true
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3774835100278089736.post-18641268706888978282015-11-17T16:32:00.000+00:002015-11-17T17:20:22.803+00:00Michelle Anderst's Online Store<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
You can find recent original work from Michelle Anderst <a href="http://animaanimus.bigcartel.com/" target="_blank">in her online store</a> with Adam One. Check out these beautiful pieces, seamless combinations natural forms and geometric patterns;<br />
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'<a href="http://animaanimus.bigcartel.com/product/the-space-behind-our-eyes" target="_blank">The Space Behind Our Eyes</a>' - Oil on Wood, Michelle Anderst (<a href="http://animaanimus.bigcartel.com/product/limited-edition-print-the-space-behind-our-eyes" target="_blank">limited edition print here</a>)</div>
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'<a href="http://animaanimus.bigcartel.com/product/angelica-umbilicus" target="_blank">Angelica Umbilicus</a>' - Oil on Wood, Michelle Anderst (<a href="http://animaanimus.bigcartel.com/product/limited-edition-print-angelica-umbilicus" target="_blank">limited edition print here</a>)</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3774835100278089736.post-73321145592683295852015-10-06T09:04:00.002+01:002015-10-06T09:05:31.411+01:00Live Drawing at 'Patterns of Mutation' Exhibition<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
For the last few days of the '<a href="http://imaginingscienceart.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/patterns-of-mutation-exhibition-and.html">Patterns of Mutation</a>' exhibition at <a href="http://www.brad.ac.uk/gallery/">Gallery II</a> in Bradford, Immy Smith will be drawing live in the giant handmade 'Connecting Narratives' book. From 11am - 5pm, until 08-Oct-15, Gallery II, Chesham Bldg B (near sports centre on Great Horton Rd), University of Bradford, BD7 1DP.<br />
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And Immy is drawing himalayan scenes, Phillipa Barber is trekking the Himalayas in aid of <a href="http://www.braintumourresearch.org/">Brain Tumour Research</a>, who fund vital research into the devastating cancers this exhibition is about. Please read her story, share her just giving page, and donate here - <a href="https://www.justgiving.com/philippa-barber/">https://www.justgiving.com/philippa-barber/</a></div>
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Connecting Narratives is a giant handmade book, created for us by Beth Coin, and being filled drawings from the stories of brain tumour patients, their family and friends, and research scientists working to fight brain tumours. You can find out more at the <a href="http://connectingnarratives.tumblr.com/">Connecting Narratives blog.</a></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3774835100278089736.post-37632024178172426392015-08-28T20:25:00.002+01:002015-08-28T20:32:59.879+01:00Anders Hoff's Generative Art<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Anders Hoff is an artist who makes deeply beautiful digital images, by writing algorithms that make art. I've been truly fascinated by his work, and I've wondered whether to ask Anders to take part in in our series of posts on unconventional botanical art (given the botanical, mycological, and lichenological appearance of some of his works). However, in doing so I would doubtless pigeon-hole his art unfairly, for the work is mathematical, and reminiscent of many natural processes - from the biological to the geological. So, you can imagine my joy when I discovered Anders has written about his artwork and the methods behind it. In his page <a href="http://inconvergent.net/generative/">'On Generative Algorithms'</a> he discusses his inspiration (including the other artists whose work has inspired him), his processes, and how interesting things emerge - even when the results of an experiment don't quite work out as planned!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://inconvergent.net/generative/">Orbitals - Anders Hoff</a></td></tr>
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Introducing his work here, Anders says;<br />
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<i>'I've always been fascinated with patterns. It doesn't really matter what kind of patterns; I've played with networks, leaves and leaf venation, branches, lightning, flocking, tracing outlines of shapes, river formation, rock sediments, landscapes, slime mold, lichens, reaction-diffusion, cellular automatas, some fractals and a few other things. I think what I enjoy the most is how complex and intricate results you can get from a set of simple rules.'</i><br />
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In some ways these methods of creating complexity from simple rules reminds me of our own <a href="http://imaginingscienceart.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/sally-hunters-biofilter-specimens.html">Sally Hunter's Biofilter project</a>, and recently I've also been inspired to experiment with making complex arrays of patterns from simple ingredients in the <a href="http://connectingnarratives.tumblr.com/post/115299865911/the-heterogeneity-experiment-ink-sciart-and">Heterogeneity experiment</a>. There's something instinctively attractive in these acts of creation, in the production of things which expanding from small points, become so much more than the sum of their parts.<br />
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Anders describes a number of his generative algorithms, including those which produce the <a href="http://inconvergent.net/generative/differential-line/">licheniform patterns which first drew me to his work</a>. I highly recommend you check out his site and his words at <a href="http://inconvergent.net/generative/">http://inconvergent.net/generative/</a><br />
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In a similar vein, you might enjoy casting your mind back to our post on the <a href="http://imaginingscienceart.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/andy-lomas-making-mesmerising.html">morphogenic creations of Andy Lomas </a><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><a href="http://vimeo.com/93056665">Cellular Forms HD</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/andylomas">Andy Lomas</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.</span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3774835100278089736.post-32238158272309706392015-08-24T20:06:00.000+01:002015-09-25T12:12:06.178+01:00Patterns of Mutation - Exhibition and workshop at the British Science Festival<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>Find out more about Immy Smith's 'Patterns of Mutation' exhibition and workshops at the <a href="https://twitter.com/BritishSciFest" target="_blank">British Science Festival</a> in Bradford.</b><br />
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<i>Exhibition; <a href="https://thelittleboxoffice.com/bsa/event/view/27510">Patterns of Mutation</a></i><br />
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<b>When: </b>7th September - 8th October 2015</div>
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Gallery II, Chesham Building B, University of Bradford, BD7 1DP<br />
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<i>British Science Festival -</i>11.00-17.00 Mon 7th Sept, Weds 9th Sept, Thurs 10th Sept. 11.00-13.00 Tues 8th Sept.</div>
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<i>Then -</i> <span style="font-size: small;">Fri 11th Sept</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"> to Thurs 8th Oct 2015 11am – 5pm, Mon to Fri (Thurs until 6pm)</span></span></div>
<b>Links: </b><a href="http://www.brad.ac.uk/gallery/whats-on/coming-up/" target="_blank">More info about the Patterns of Mutation Exhibition</a><br />
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<i>Workshop - Tuesday; <a href="https://thelittleboxoffice.com/bsa/event/view/26838">After Dark 'Transformations'</a></i><br />
<b>When:</b> 18.00-23.00 Tuesday 8th September<br />
<b>Where: </b>Forks Cafe, North Parade, Bradford, BD1 3HZ <br />
<a href="http://www.britishscienceassociation.org/blog/delve-into-the-alternative-side-of-science" target="_blank">More info on ‘After Dark; Transformations’</a><br />
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<i>Workshop - Wednesday; <a href="https://thelittleboxoffice.com/bsa/event/view/26839">Talking Colour</a></i><br />
<b>When:</b> 18.00-23.00 Tuesday 8th September<br />
<b>Where: </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #4f5155;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Society of Dyers and Colourists, </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #4f5155; font-family: inherit;">Colour Experience, Perkin House, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #4f5155; font-family: inherit;">Providence Street, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #4f5155; font-family: inherit;">Bradford, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #4f5155; font-family: inherit;">BD1 2PW</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.britishscienceassociation.org/blog/lets-get-colourful">More info about ‘Talking Colour’</a></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Four heterogeneity filters - ink on laboratory filters - Immy Smith - 2015</i><b><br /></b></td></tr>
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<b>About Patterns of Mutations - by Immy Smith</b> <br />
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'Patterns of Mutation' is an exhibition of artwork made in conjunction with scientists from the Portsmouth Brain Tumour Research Centre, representing one of the experiments in my current '<a href="http://connectingnarratives.tumblr.com/">Connecting Narratives</a>' residency, which developed a life of its own. The '<a href="http://connectingnarratives.tumblr.com/post/115299865911/the-heterogeneity-experiment-ink-sciart-and">Heterogeneity Experiment</a>' developed into a side-project, and
became ‘<a href="http://www.brad.ac.uk/gallery/whats-on/coming-up/" target="_blank">Patterns of Mutation</a>'.
For the British Science Festival, you can join me and scientists from the Brain Tumour Research lab to
explore the challenges of brain tumour (the biggest cancer killer of people in the UK), and
make your own ink patterns at public workshops. The output of both workshops will contribute to our growing array of patterns. So this is your chance to become part of our art and science experiment.<br />
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There are many factors which make brain tumours uniquely challenging and
difficult cancers to treat; heterogeneity is one of them, and occurs at
many levels in these diseases. Heterogeneity means non-uniformity, variability. Brain tumours can occur in people of any age, gender, or ethnicity. So although some types of brain tumour are more common in particular groups or at particular ages, there is great diversity in who can be affected. There are more than 120 different types of brain tumour; they are not just one cancer, they are a range of complex diseases, and this huge variation means there is no 'one size fits all' treatment for brain tumours. Within each tumour there is non-uniformity in the supply of oxygen and proximity to blood vessels. Genetic variables also drive diversity and variability in cell populations within each tumour, with each population varying in its susceptibility to drugs.<br />
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Finally, within a single cell, there may be great variation in the genetics of mitochondria - the energy producing structures within each cell, which have their own genome. Scientists are only just beginning to understand how this variation in mitochondria differs between normal and cancerous cells in the brain, and how this can be used to target treatments towards brain tumour cells. Work to further investigate this is going on right now at the lab in Portsmouth.<br />
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<b>About the artwork and brain tumours</b><br />
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The ingredients used in the artworks in this exhibition, and in the workshops, are primarily inks - blue and crimson. Every drawing and each filter contains both colours. From this limited palette of
ingredients both the pattern drawings, and the filter paper patterns are made. We are making an array of unique filter patterns - more than 120
of them. The components are few but the outcomes are complex.<br />
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The
cellular components of your brain are primarily neurons and glial
cells. Neurons get a lot of the limelight, however glial cells -
including <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrocyte" target="_blank">astrocytes</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligodendrocyte" target="_blank">oligodendrocytes</a>
- play a crucial role in brain function, and neurons are lost without
them. Other constituent cells include pericytes and endothelial cells in
the brain’s blood vessels, microglia (immune cells), and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ependyma" target="_blank">ependymal cells</a> (which line brain ventricles). From a limited palette of cellular
ingredients, all the fascinating machinery of your brain is created. From
these ingredients, brain tumours are also made. Primarily springing
from the neuroglial cell lineages, the great diversity mentioned above - more than 120 different types of
brain tumour - can arise. Cancers in other parts of the body can also
spread to the brain - they metastasise. <br />
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Brain
tumours are the biggest cancer killer of people under 40 in the UK, and
remain some of the most difficult cancers to treat. Despite this, brain
tumour research receives a tiny proportion of total cancer research
spend. We want to help change that by making people aware of how unique,
challenging, and important brain tumour research is.<br />
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Go to <a href="http://www.braintumourresearch.org/" target="_blank">http://www.braintumourresearch.org/</a> to find out more.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3774835100278089736.post-49168352339187552552015-07-24T18:34:00.001+01:002015-07-24T18:37:45.736+01:00Unconventional plant froms: part 4 - Helen Ahpornsiri<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
For the next installment of our series on unconventional botanically inspired art, we feature the fern collages of <a href="http://helenahpornsiri.com/">Helen Ahpornsiri</a>. Here we find out more about Helen's exquisitely detailed works, meticulously crafted from material grown and pressed by the artist herself...<b> </b><br />
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<b>IS: Firstly could you tell us a little bit about how you became an artist and your practice?</b><br />
HA:
It is always a compliment to be referred to as an artist, but being
that my background is in illustration, that's how I’ve always looked at
my work. Partly because I studied illustration and partly because it
seems less daunting to me. Though having been thinking about this
question for a while, it may well be best I leave it for others to
define me. In regards to my practice, I predominantly work by
growing/collecting ferns, then pressing them for months before
assembling them into palettes ready for use. The designs I make with the
fern, I look at as a three part negotiation: the shape the fern will be
forming, the patterns I want to create and the natural curves of the
ferns themselves. All contribute evenly. Through this I strive to create
pictures that are both structured and flowing.<br />
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<b>IS: How did you come to used pressed plant material, and why ferns in particular?</b><br />
HA:
About 4 years ago I was drawing an ink illustration of a fern weevil,
with a fern pattern inside. In the process I had the idea to try using
real fern to illustrate with, instead of ink. Beyond that particular
catalyst, there’s a lot that draws me to fern. For a start, they seem so
pedestrian to most, perhaps due to them being in such abundance.
There’s also something about mortality; an attempt to preserve life in a
new form, and the futility to that notion.<br />
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<b>IS: What inspires
the animal forms you choose to create - is there any philosophy
connecting them to the plant material, or are the choices purely
aesthetic?</b><br />
HA: Recently most of my designs have been commissions,
which is fun because there are many animals I’ve done, that I wouldn't
have thought of doing myself. Personal pieces I’ve created, tend to be
based on british wildlife. Always inspired by the victorian zeitgeist,
‘pteridomania’, obsessive collecting and renewed fascination with the
natural world.<br />
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<b>IS: What challenges (or benefits) does working
with such a delicate material present? I notice many are at a gloriously
tiny scale, but it must be quite eye-watering to make them! </b><br />
HA:
It is a challenge, but having tiny hands does help. One benefit is that
i find it almost therapeutic, like doing a puzzle. The small ones I
originally decided to do as a way to force me to try the style in a more
graphic way. When making larger pieces, I’ve sometimes gotten too
engulfed by intricacy, so thats helped me learn where and when to use
fine detail.<br />
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<b>IS: Do the sciences and mathematics influence your work, and if so how?</b><br />
HA:
Yes, although I suppose that comes with the medium by default. To get
different colours and shapes, I’ve learnt about certain aspects of the
biology of fern. It’s anatomy, it’s life cycle and how to distinguish it
from similar looking plants. Mathematically, the patterns found with
fern are a good example of fractals. Which of course the human mind
cannot help but be infatuated by. Furthermore, fern fronds divide in
different ways. As the amount of division increases, the more delicate
the pieces are, which are most appropriate for my work.<br />
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<b>IS: Do you collaborate with other artists, and does collaboration influence your practice?</b><br />
HA:
Not particularly in the way of on an individual piece or single canvas.
I have made some time lapses of me working, which I couldn't have done
and wouldn't have thought of doing, without help. I’d certainly like to
do more collaborations in the future, to explore new possibilities and
learn new skills.<br />
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<i>Helen was also kind enough to share with us some particularly exquisite images of a work called 'Aviary'. Massive thanks to Helen for sharing this mesmerising piece. Below are images and Helen's words about this wonderful work;</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">"Aviary is a symmetrical (as possible) collection of 39 bird skulls. Having been treated, some of the colour in the leaves will
naturally fade over time, leaving pale structures akin to the bones
they form. The image and the medium become a cycle of preservation and futility; an idea I like to explore in my work. "</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Aviary' (Detail) - Helen Ahpornsiri</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Aviary' (Detail) - Helen Ahpornsiri</td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3774835100278089736.post-34355542230901547882015-07-14T10:21:00.001+01:002015-07-14T10:31:15.418+01:00Unconventional Plant Forms: Part 3 - Veronika Richterova<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This is the third in a series about artists making botanically inspired art in unconventional ways. This week we feature Veronika Richterova's delightful and imaginative PET-art plant forms. (Photos by Michal Cihlář).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.veronikarichterova.com/en/my-works/pet-art-sculptures/plants/">'Fruit of Paradise XII' - Veronika Richterova</a></td></tr>
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<a name='more'></a>Veronika Richterova is based in the Czech Republic, and is renowned for artworks made by creatively recycling PET containers. In addition to plant forms, her inspirations include animals and man-made designs. Veronika is dedicated to her chosen medium - read more in her <a href="http://www.veronikarichterova.com/en/pet-2/">tribute to PET here</a> - and was kind enough to share some thoughts about her work with us...<br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">"O</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">ne
</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">summer </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">day
when I was drinking water from </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">a
</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">plastic bottle the idea
to
heat it came to me. </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">As</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">
I'm </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">a </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">sculptor,
</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">at the same </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">time
I </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">t</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">h</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">ought
</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">'</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">it
could be </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">called</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">
PET-ART!'</span><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">It
</span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">happened</span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
in 2004. </span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">I
</span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">immediately
</span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">started
to experiment with bottles </span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">and
</span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">ever
since</span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
I have been continously</span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;">
developing </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">different
methods
</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">of </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">how
to</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> work </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">with
them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">I
have always </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">had </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">an
instrument in my car </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">(</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">a</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">n
iron hook)</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">for
taking bottles out of recycl</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">ing</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">
bins in the streets. </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">I</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">t's
</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">a</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">
very adveturous</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">and</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">
</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">entertaining</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">
part of my work. </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">I
never
know what I'll find there!</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">
</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Then I have to clean and
dry
all </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">the </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">bottles
and </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">sort them</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">
in</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">to </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">boxes,
which is not so pleasant! </span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">I have an extra house </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">used
for</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> storage, where I
have</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">
</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">already got a huge
stockpile
that will last me </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">till
the
end of my life. In </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">the
</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Czech
Republic we have very colourful bottles, </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">which
is a </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">big advantage for
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Many thanks to Veronika, you can find out more about her work on her website <a href="http://www.veronikarichterova.com/en/">here</a>. </span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3774835100278089736.post-72867946589726778472015-07-04T00:24:00.003+01:002015-07-04T00:24:54.685+01:00Chromascape @ Field of Vision<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
One of Immy Smith's 'Chromascapes' will be on show at the <a href="http://www.emporium-gallery.co.uk/">'Field of Vision' exhibition 3-12 July</a>, as part of the Lichfield festival.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.immysmith.com/gallery/569854">Chromascape - violet, rose & chlorophyll extract - Immy Smith, 2015</a></td></tr>
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The 'Chromascapes' are made with plant pigments, from
material grown and extracted by the artist. The process of repeatedly dyeing
chromatographic filters to form a dyed lanscape, is a deeply meditative
practice. The resulting images contain the chemical memory of plants and place,
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This is the second in a series <span style="font-size: small;">of posts about artists using botanical motifs in their art, in unusual media and unconventional ways. The first article on <a href="https://hillaryfayle.wordpress.com/">Hillary Fayle</a> can be found <a href="http://imaginingscienceart.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/unconventional-plant-forms-part-1.html">here</a>. </span></span></div>
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have always loved making things and it was very natural for me to study
fine art once I left high school. It was during my studies that I
developed my embroidery process and I am lucky that I am able to make a
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way of working during my honours year when I was originally studying
fine arts - back in 2006. During that year I developed and refined my
technique of drawing with the sewing machine onto a water soluble base
fabric. Since then I have continued to work with this process and I am
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am inspired by natural forms and structures, in particular I like to
draw inspiration from the structures of cells, shells, coral, plants, and
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has influenced my practice dramatically. While I don't use it in my own
practice I am well versed in scientific illustration, including
botanical, entomological and medial illustration. As a result of these
studies I now have a greater focus on field work and research to
influence my designs and to ensure that my artworks are scientifically
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<span style="color: black;">Many thanks to Meredith for sharing her work with us. You can find out more about by clicking the images above, which are linked to posts in <a href="http://meredithwoolnough.blogspot.com.au/">Meredith's fascinating blog about her practice</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">This is the first in a series of posts about artists using <span style="font-family: inherit;">plant</span> forms in their art, in unconventional ways. Botanical art <span style="font-family: inherit;">is</span> historically dominated by realistic plant portraits, particularly in watercolours. However; leaves and flowers are increasing blooming in different guises, and unfolding in unusual media, at the hands of talented and ingenious contemporary artists.</span></span><br />
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always felt compelled to make art, since I was a very small child. I
remember making things when I was little, clothes for my dolls, little
fabric things in addition to drawing, so I think on some level I was
always interested in sewing and stitching. I tend to be really inspired
by everything around me, decoration, architecture, typography, pattern,
boats, and of course plants, feathers, forests, birds, gardens, the
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">When I make art, it's a very fluid process,
I'm always collecting materials, leaves, to use fresh or to dry or to
press, a twig with a particularly poetic bend, a feather on the
sidewalk. I might use these things immediately or save them for years. I
try not to force myself to use specific things, but to bring materials
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Your beautiful leaf stitching works incorporate traditional embroidery
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embroidery in Manchester, England for a semester while I was in college.
I was completely enthralled with the techniques and with the processes I
had learned and been immersing myself in, when I had to leave to come
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">I had a summer job at an environmental education summer camp,
which I had been working at every summer and attending since I was in
middle school. That was the place that really cemented my love for
nature and the outdoors and instilled a real sense of stewardship in me.
I had a few hours off one afternoon, and I kept looking up at this
magnificent Oak tree above me, wondering if I might be able to use my
needle skills somehow to sew leaves together. I tried it, and it worked,
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You also make amazing works using the delicate art of leaf-cutting. Do
the inspirations for these patterns relate or contrast to your stitching
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unless I'm doing a commissioned piece. The line work in the cut pieces
has a textile or thread sensibility to it. I think there is a strong
visual connection between the different works. The cut pieces are
(comparatively) much quicker for me to do, there is a more immediate
visual development, even though it's still a slow process!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">HF: Well,
I do feel like the natural sciences are a part of my work, for sure. I
really try to learn about the materials I use, the plants and animal
parts, where they come from, and are native to, how they fit into their
environment and so on. I think about all this as I'm considering how to
use the particular material, which subtly impacts my decisions. So in a
behind-the scenes kind of way, biology and botany do play a part in my
work. I use a lot of different patterns, and I'm looking at increasingly
more geometric pattern work, so of course mathematics is important as
well. I actually think of science and math as a really important
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Many thanks to Hillary for talking about her work for Imagining Science - find out more about her inspiring works at her blog <a href="https://hillaryfayle.wordpress.com/">here</a>. </span></span></div>
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Michelle Anderst will be showing work at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/seaaffaire/info?tab=page_info">Sea Affaire</a>, Seattle, US, July 2015. The piece below is available <a href="http://www.animaanimus.org/product/nature-s-curvature-toward-logarithmic-form">here</a> ahead of the exhibition. <a href="http://michelleanderst.tumblr.com/contactandbio">Contact Michelle</a> to be added to the preview list for further peeks at her upcoming works.<br />
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<i>Last month saw the culmination of Immy Smith's work with EM Lab (Centre for Advanced Microscopy), as previously written about <a href="http://imaginingscienceart.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/sciart-in-practice-questions-and.html">here</a>, and at <a href="http://blogs.reading.ac.uk/crg/sciart-in-practice-experimenting-with-new-materials/">Herbarium RNG</a>. This is a final review of the work.</i></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Spilling Miniature Universes' - Immy Smith, 2014 - graphite, acrylic, ink, EM adhesive graphite liquid, gold particle ink, tree fern leaf hairs, tree fern spores, on artboard</td></tr>
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Everyone stop for a moment; now imagine the
palpable fear experienced by a postdoc/PhD who's spent months
of gruelling effort on a set of experiments, and suddenly finds a
strange person in the lab poking around their work. Art can be like that too - I'm afraid of *everything that
moves* when I'm nearing the end of a large arduous artwork. I see the same
fear responses in scientists when I first walk into their lab, as the ones I have
when someone I don't know walks past
my nearly finished artwork carrying a sticky donut and coffee.<br />
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I'm telling you this because for my artwork with EM Lab, and my current 10 month artist's residency in Portsmouth Brain Tumour Research Centre, I have been an artist in a lab, making art at the bench. There are real practical, understandable, daily issues that occur in my work. They are overcome-able, and its worth it. Here's my art-lab experience...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Making art at the bench</td></tr>
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I was really lucky that EM Lab were able to host me<i> in situ </i>in their laboratory and turn my commission into a residency. It gave me an opportunity to work in their space, play with new materials, and absorb new information. When the results were finally hung last month, we gave talks, Herbarium RNG brought along beautiful tree fern material, and EM Lab enabled all building staff (scientific or otherwise) to see their electron microscopes in action - there was the kind of 'ooo-ing and ahh-ing' you'd expect from a fireworks display!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tree fern spore surface - imaged by Amanpreet Kaur, spores from Azi Jamaludin.</td></tr>
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Obviously, there is a business aspect to a commission, and an arts practice focus to a residency. The most gratifying thing for me however, is the fact that this was a mutually beneficial experience. There was <i>shared</i> practice and understanding gained, and scientific as well as art output, benefitting both EM Lab staff, and Herbarium RNG members who are studying tree ferns. The amount of funding we needed to achieve this was not huge. It does require the planning and imagination to make these things work, but I really hope more labs will entertain the idea of hosting arts <em>in situ</em> - because it benefits scientists as well as artists.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Work in progress shot of drawing part of the final piece</td></tr>
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My EMLab residency was not rocket surgery to achieve, as it happened. It mainly required forward planning, speaking to health and safety personnel, and <i>putting in a funding application</i>. For this project we applied for a specifically targeted scheme, but I hear many people say they aren't applying for arts (or science) funding schemes because its too competitive or the application is too arduous. We all need to assess whether what we put in and what we might get balance out in each case. However, if I'd listened to all the people who told me not to bother when I applied for my current (fully funded, 10 month long) residency because its so competitive; I wouldn't be here.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Learning to use EM graphite adhesive liquid as paint; its smelly but super-opaque!</td></tr>
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My best advice to anyone aiming to do something similar is; make creative applications. Can an arts component be included in a given scientific grant? What kind of arts funding is available to you and can science outreach be included? Obvious as it sounds - plan ahead so you're not having to tackle tricky art-science questions last minute... Think carefully about how arts practice and scientific research will mutually benefit. While much of this depends on the scheme you're applying for, and whether an artist or scientist is the primary applicant, be imaginative rather than replicating the aims of projects you've seen before. Don't expect to know what exactly the art output will look like - art is as experimental as science, and we're always having to estimate what we can do. Don't neglect the practical aspects if you propose embedding in a lab, and think ahead to as many things you <em>might</em> do as possible, discussing them in advance.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Herbarium curator collecting tree fern material for use in paints</td></tr>
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Finally, some specific points of learning from being embedded in a lab for my last 2 residencies;<br />
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<i>Scientists;</i> dependent on which scheme you're applying for, as much as possible I recommend thinking outside of solely how an artist can literally translate/illustrate whichever cloud/plant/cell you study. SciArt can be more imaginative than that. Please budget for subsistence and travel as well as materials. Enjoyable as this may have been, I have bills, and publicity doesn't pay them. One of the things that enabled me to immerse myself so fully in what I was doing at EM Lab was the fact that a cheap rail season ticket was budgeted, as well as my hours.<br />
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<i>Artists; </i>find out what the goals of the lab you propose working with are - particularly with respect to communication, engagement and public impact. Try to work that into your goals for the project, whether for personal development or enhancing your practice. Take steps to consider health and safety specific to the lab's work, and take the training seriously - it can be a project killer. Yes, using toxic varnish in your studio may be less regulated. At home we can poison ourselves with common solvents all we want. But your lab hosts might be legally obliged to use these things in a fume hood, just as an example!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Making art in the lab - EM Lab generously made space for me to work in their microscopy facility.</td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3774835100278089736.post-57329824928155936312015-04-15T15:55:00.000+01:002015-04-15T15:55:11.792+01:00Alchemy and Transition<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Michelle Anderst's <span style="font-family: inherit;">w</span>ork can currently be seen <span style="font-family: inherit;">in <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/821676224554391/">'Princi</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/821676224554391/">pia Alchemia' </a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/821676224554391/">at True Love Art G</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/821676224554391/">allery</a>, Seat<span style="font-family: inherit;">tle, US, from 9th April to 10th May 2015. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span>For purchase inquiries email <a href="mailto:trueloveartgallery@gmail.com">trueloveartgallery@gmail.com</a>.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Further work from Immy Smith's 'Transitional Objects' series can be seen at the RWA Bristol's <span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>'DRAWN' </b>exhibition</span>, 21<span style="font-family: inherit;">st April - <span style="font-family: inherit;">7</span>th June 2015</span> find out more at <a href="http://www.rwa.org.uk/">the RWA site here</a>, for sales inquiries contact<span style="font-family: inherit;"> RWA at</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"> +44 (0)117 973 5129.</span></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3774835100278089736.post-5791654514287979772015-03-19T15:04:00.003+00:002015-04-15T14:04:38.262+01:00The Symbiosis Project: one year on<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
In case you hadn't spotted, its<span id="goog_1557751945"></span><a href="http://www.britishscienceweek.org/"> British Science Week<span id="goog_1557751946"></span></a> this week; a great opportunity to get out and experience both accessible science events, and art-science collaborations - you can <a href="http://www.britishscienceweek.org/events/">find out about your local events here</a>. It also marks one year since we held a week-long exhibit for <a href="http://imaginingscienceart.blogspot.co.uk/p/symbiosis.html">The Symbiosis Project</a> during <a href="http://www.scienceinreading.org/reading-science-week/">Reading Science Week</a>. We're enjoying the opportunity to look back at Symbiosis, particularly given we're all engaged in projects and therefore not showing together at this moment. Read on for Immy Smith's take on the project, and a particularly well traveled book...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Four of the pages in the giant handmade Symbiosis Book</td></tr>
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During Imagining Science's 2013 group show, I'd contacted my collaborator, paper-maker Scott Mantooth, to ask if he would mind me selling some of our work for charity. I wanted to sell a piece of my work on Scott's paper in aid of the charity <a href="http://www.braintumourresearch.org/">Brain Tumour Research</a>. It transpired that Scott had lost his brother, Mark, to a brain tumour. Mark had a type of glioma when he was young, and only radiation treatment was available. Although the
original tumour was treated, it left Mark blind, and caused a stroke
which paralysed him on one side. Mark later developed a further tumour, which recurred after surgery,
and ultimately took his life. Scott described Mark as never giving up, remaining cheerful, brightening other peoples life's to the end.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Anatomy of Clouds' - Immy Smith & Scott Mantooth, 2012</td></tr>
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I'd had a scientific relationship with brain tumour research for some years. I was heartbroken to hear how my friend had lost a loved one to this disease. Scott joined Imagining Science and we resolved to find a group project together, and ensure <a href="http://www.braintumourresearch.org/">Brain Tumour Research</a> benefited from any fundraising efforts from it. That project became 'Symbiosis'. During the course of these events, my own life was changing, and with a degree of personal turmoil going on around me, the project became a beautiful constant in that year. I think it will remain a sci-art mile-marker in my life.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Textures and collaborations inspired 'Symbiosis'</td></tr>
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Scott and I looked at shared motifs and concepts that were important to us. We considered how art and science were interacting in our works, and sought shared resources. The latter is significant because Scott and I live on different sides of the Atlantic. Our choice of subject - Symbiosis - was inspired by the nature of collaboration, and the constant, if sometimes controversial, relationship between the arts and sciences. However, the choice of the lichen symbiosis as our theme, came from the ubiquitous nature of lichen; it can be found from Antarctica to the Atacama desert. Scott and I could both find similar species around us. We could ask collaborators to join, knowing they would also be able to find lichen patterns and textures for inspiration wherever they were. It has a long varied history in art, dyeing, environmental science, and botanical exploration, which also added to lichen's potential. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Seattle Six: works for the project by Jen Purnell, Sharon Birzer, Immy Smith, Michelle Anderst, Stephanie Pui-Mun Law, Veronique Robigou, on luggage tags dyed by Scott Mantooth</td></tr>
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Lichen is a symbiosis between fungus and alga. The fungal partner provides a structure and the algae photosynthesise, providing nutrients to the fungus. Which partner benefits the most in this relationship<span style="font-size: small;"> has been a controversial subject. This makes the lichen symbiosis a perfect parallel to art and science; no relationship is without friction. Our art and science relationships were also extended by this project - Michelle Anderst invited new collaborators to take part, and I started working with Herbarium RNG, drawing on their botanical lichen collection</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span>s. By the end of the project I was resident there as Visiting Artist. I also discovered the amazing lichenological art of collaborator <a href="http://instituteofaquaticresearch.com/home.html">Sarah Hearn</a>, and started working with artisan bookbinder Beth Coin.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Novel lichen colonies: collage by <a href="http://instituteofaquaticresearch.com/home.html">Sarah Hearn</a> for the Symbiosis Book</td></tr>
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The book became the most significant and enduring part of Symbiosis. If you're busy making a living during the day, and have a shoestring budget to organise a charity show, you have to be creative. We were fortunate to get a grant from UoR's Arts Committee, and funding from generous partners who has previously supported Imagining Science - but we needed a venue. Local arts centre <a href="http://www.risingsun-artscentre.co.uk/">The Rising Sun</a> were amazingly generous in working with us. We took over their centre for Science Week '14 and we're eternally grateful to them! <a href="http://imaginingscienceart.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/the-move-up-project.html">The Move Up Project</a> at the Rising Sun even became a collaborator, making art for the book. However, as a listed building, artwork or installations drilled into walls or floors were out. Thus the idea of the book came in. The Symbiosis Book became the centrepiece of our exhibition, but it also developed a life of its own.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Reading from The Symbiosis Book at Herbarium RNG.</td></tr>
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The Symbiosis Book is a giant handmade unique large format art book. The pages have been individually hand dyed by Scott Mantooth; they are also collaged by Sarah Hearn, decorated with artwork, or pressed lichen with the help of curators at Herbarium RNG. The book contains work from many collaborators and tells the story of the lichen symbiosis as a mirror to our relationships as artists and scientists. It contains images from paintings, to hand-pressed specimens, to lichen electron micrographs from EM Lab, It has been hand-bound, with a cover decorated in recycled leather and detailed stitching by Beth Coin. The dedication in the book is to Scott's brother Mark. The book resides in Herbarium RNG, but regularly escapes to take part in art events. The book has evolved over time; findings have been adapted, late-coming works added. Combining mileage of individual pages, its travelled more than 12,000 miles, hitch-hiking with artists and scientists as they traveled, posted in parts, and escaping quarantine... <a href="http://instituteofaquaticresearch.com/home.html">Sarah Hearn</a>'s pages were initially confiscated by customs, and had to find their way back! <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lichen painted by Michelle Anderst on luggage tags dyed by Scott Mantooth</td></tr>
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Luggage tags were the other major component of the show. 12 artists made pieces on luggage tags hand-dyed by Scott Mantooth. The tags represented travel; the ability of the arts, scientific knowledge, and lichen itself, to transcend borders and move around the world. They also provided an affordable format; luggage tags were sold in aid of <a href="http://www.braintumourresearch.org/">Brain Tumour Research</a> and collectively these tiny treasures raised hundreds of pounds. Small can be mighty. Lichen can break rocks given enough time. Don't under-estimate what we can do when we put many small things together.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Scanning electron micrograph of lichen by Matthew Spink for EM Lab</td></tr>
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So, the exhibition is finished, and the book lives on. One year on, is there a wider legacy of this project for us now? What have we learned? I have learned much about curation and planning as I do with every exhibition, but for me this project had a specific impact. At the private view I was chatting with a representative from the charity Brain Tumour Research. Scott and I had thought about making brain tumours themselves the theme for a project, but were afraid of work being seen as morbid or insensitive. The representative pointed out; "we all want to express hope; but the reality of the situation with brain tumours - it can't be sugar-coated." So, how can we use art to address the unique difficulties of brain tumours for both patients and scientists? How can we express hope without a sugar coating? These discussions lead to meetings with the Portsmouth Brain Tumour Research Centre (PBTRC), and a successful application for a Leverhulme Trust Artist's Residency.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hand-dyed card by Scott Mantooth</td></tr>
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I'm now resident artist in PBTRC, one of <a href="http://www.braintumourresearch.org/">Brain Tumour Research</a>'s centres for excellence. My residency is exploring ways to connect the stories of brain tumour scientists, patients, and family members though art, and aims to raise awareness with a wider audience. <a href="http://connectingnarratives.tumblr.com/">You can read more about how I fare on the project website here</a>. I plan to incorporate fundraising into the outcomes of this residency where I can, and I encourage anyone reading this to find out more from Brain Tumour Research and <a href="http://www.braintumourresearch.org/donate">contribute to the cause</a>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In the field, on the pacific north-west coast of the US</td></tr>
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Every project, exhibition, and residency is what you make of it. I gained much from the Symbiosis Project - difficult as it was to run, at a tricky time in my life, it has rewarded my efforts in every way. Scott and I succeeded in fundraising. New partnerships were formed with Herbarium RNG, bookbinder Beth Coin, and the wonderful <a href="http://www.risingsun-artscentre.co.uk/">Rising Sun Arts Centre</a> - I will never forget <a href="http://imaginingscienceart.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/the-move-up-project.html">the Move Up Project</a>! I got to take the project to the west coast of the US and see lichen in a temperate rainforest! It lead to a short residency and commission with EM Lab, and my current residency in PBTRC.<br />
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Being a professional artist is graft - there is no fairy story here, despite all those wonderful outcomes I just listed. The transition I've made from the lab bench to the drawing board is a long journey, which I have no doubt, didn't make this project easier. But there's an old axiom about great work being 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration. There is no outcome without perspiration. So if I have one message from this project; put your perspiration behind your inspiration. It can be a precarious path but... You <i>really don't know</i> where it will take you, and it might be to eye-opening new opportunities.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3774835100278089736.post-49058306631100660172015-02-25T14:15:00.001+00:002015-02-25T14:17:47.120+00:00Art and science we're loving from around the web right now<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
High up the list of 'things we wish we could have gone to' this month is <a href="http://www.annetcouwenberg.com/">Annet Couwenberg</a>'s appearance <a href="http://go.si.edu/site/Calendar?id=100542&view=Detail&s_src=nmnh_er_skel_w_tw">at the Smithsonian</a> on her fibre art collaboration with Dr Lynne Parenti. <a href="https://artcollisions.wordpress.com/2015/02/23/the-skeleton-and-the-skin-annet-couwenberg/">Read more from Artcollisions</a> on this event to accompany the project, which explored the relationship between the skeleton and the skin.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.annetcouwenberg.com/#work">'Legacy' by Annet Couwenberg - http://www.annetcouwenberg.com/#work</a></td></tr>
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Also in the 'wish I was there' pile is the amazing <a href="http://n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/index.php">Nervous System</a>'s 3D printed kinematics dress, <a href="http://n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/blog/?p=6565&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NervousSystem+%28Nervous+System+-+explorations+in+generative+design+and+natural+phenomena%29">on display at MoMa</a>. Find out much more about it in their great videos below, and <a href="http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/symbiartic/2015/01/25/an-intricate-3d-printed-dress-no-assembly-required/">this detailed post by Symbiartic</a>. <br />
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If you haven't seen <a href="http://lydiakasumi.com/">Lydia Kasumi Shirreff</a> 's beautiful and mind-bending paper sculture yet, check out her <a href="http://lydiakasumi.com/">website</a>, which we discovered via <a href="http://thefinchandpea.com/2015/02/18/art-of-science-paper-scissors-rock/">the Finch & Pea's review here</a>. It really reminds me of 'A Common Name's <a href="http://acommonname.com/street-art-project/">Urban Geode Project</a> too.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://lydiakasumi.com/AMETHYST">Paper sculture minerals by Lydia Kasumi Shirreff - http://lydiakasumi.com/AMETHYST</a></td></tr>
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Speaking of cut paper, its been great to catch up again with our collaborator from the Symbiosis Project, <a href="http://sarahhearn.blogspot.co.uk/">Sarah Hearn</a>, and find out about her newest lichen-inspired project. Read more at her blog <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrFEOaRpumrxvYYvsZ4ZA5rpAVtZXXk0bEGSPixz-47XeVAhf1Wb4SkzNQyxLRzPKVgBB2QIkLOburyqv_wAHEZvVnqrYTeYO9AxqdbvAiB-FdRdZrso98xKIqch1PAOnRopUyQQOgDNA/s1600/Cuts+in+progress.jpg">here</a>, and stay tuned to find out what else we discover about her recent work!<br />
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Also on a papery note, check out these chemical book sculptures, by <a href="http://www.alexisarnold.com/">Alexis Arnold</a>, found via <a href="http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/02/crystallized-book-sculptures/">Colossal</a>. What a beautiful concept.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/02/crystallized-book-sculptures/">'All's Well that Ends Well' by Alexis Arnold (via Colossal)</a></td></tr>
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