Presentation - Mini Installation

Below are photographs of my Mini Installation for my Collaborative Project Presentation. 

I wanted to create an intimate space which communicates my project in an interactive, quite playful way, which expresses numerous series of method and process combined with importance of material and time. This is a small area in our main studio which i closed off and made it my own, mimicking how i use my workspace suggesting to the viewer that they can come in and do there own 'arty science experiements'. I also used the space as a way to experiment with presence and absence. My works tends to have a strong emotional attachment and in the past i have used selective text alongside imagery, but for this particular project  i was unhappy with my overall presentation looking static and felt i needed to use a thought out, imaginative space to capture the mood and oversight of this project, which has required a lot of learning. I have found it to be both rewarding and challenging. 

Cell Biology Lab Photoshoot

It was important to me that when i had 'finished' my resin blocks that i then go back into the lab and photograph them in the environment i was initially working in and inspired by. I wanted to see what effect the environment had on them and how 'sciencey' in context they actually are in relation to the high tech science equipment in the Lab. At this point i was also quite excited to show Ruth (with her help and guidance) i had come up with but also i was keen to get Ruth involved with the photo shoot, taking control over me and letting her choose where and how the blocks were placed  or interacted with. The whole experience of photographing the blocks in all the places of the lab that Ruth and i had spent time together was immensely fun and it became more like playing in the lab, moving my blocks from place to place. I was pleased that Ruth not only interacted so well with me and the resin blocks but came up with some exciting ideas using lighting for the photos. Here are a small collection as a brief insight...

My 3D Works Continued...

Cress - as time goes by...

Art and Science 3D Artworks

Resin 'building block' (one of many) 3D drawings with Acids and Alkalis. Representational construction of 'Within a Cell' - Atublin, DNA and Proteins with in a cell

3D paintings

DIY-OLOGY - Do it Your Self Arty Science Kit

 For the International Artists book fair I have designed and made Arty Science kits taken from ideas and development in my sketchbook. The kits will include most of the materials I used in my initial experiments and instructions for people to follow and have fun doing their own Science Experiments at home. I have also included some 'next steps' which I myself have done throughout my project, using my experiments as drawing tools to fuel inspiration in a much more 'arty' context. 

 

The kit will also include stickers, which are some of my early to more developed drawings in order for them to see what I came up with. 

Feedback is an important part of selling the DIY kits and I hope to receive feedback in the form of images, drawings, photographs and comments. I have included business cards in my kits, which has my email and blog details on so that people can contact me further with feedback or if they would like further information about my project etc. 

Materials - Cress - Art and Science

I remember my first ever science experiment...

I have found that I am using cress more and more within my work, whilst collaborating with Science. To me cress holds a strong narrative to my childhood and the early stages of development of life. Cress is easy to use and I think at some point most adults have probably grown cress either as a small child or simply to eat. 

I think the link to my childhood is quite significant within my current collaborating project; Ruth and I have know each other as children, grew up and lived very separate lives and then reconnected through this project as adults. 

My Art and Science Collaboration is much more the overall umbrella (structure) of smaller collaborations within it. Firstly I am exploring my connection to my materials and life cycle, how to collaborate logic and emotion, a fun interactive piece for the Artist International Book fair, working with my old schools in Cumbria on Science awareness and its connection to Art, Collaborating with Ruth at the Cell Biology Lab in Leeds and I have very recently began working with The Arts and Mind Network working with people in the community, which i plan to incorporate into my ongoing ideas about the human mind, mental health and wellbeing and overall quality of life.