A selection of recommended shows, including: Rhona Mühlebach testing parameters of video installation at Intermedia, CCA Glasgow; Zoë Power’s bold printmaking at That Art Gallery, Bristol; parasitical perspectives with Rod Dillon and Jen Southern at University of Dundee’s LifeSpace.
Highlights for the week ahead selected from a-n’s Events section posted by members, with exhibitions and events in Derby, Eastbourne, London, Plymouth and Stratford on Avon.
This week’s selection from a-n’s busy Events section, featuring exhibitions and events posted by a-n members, includes selections from Glasgow, Grimsby, London, Ruthin and Southampton.
For his exhibition, ‘CAPSID’, John Walter draws on his time as resident artist of infection at UCL where he collaborated with structural virologist Professor Greg Towers. Lydia Ashman finds out how his focus on a protein shell that enables the rapid transmission of viruses has resulted in a riotous, playful mix of film, painting, collage and installation.
Five projects from a-n members, selected from a-n’s busy Events section and including exhibitions in Abergavenny, Gainsborough, Leicester, Newtown and Wells.
Earlier this year the Leverhulme Trust decided to close its successful Artist in Residence Grant Scheme which has seen artists including Turner Prize winner Elizabeth Price and the Scottish artist Alec Finlay working alongside scientists and academics across the UK. Chris Fremantle talks to those lamenting its closure and calls for its return.
The Nottingham-based artist Wolfgang Buttress attracted huge media interest with The Hive, his bee-inspired sculptural installation for the 2015 Milan Expo UK pavilion. Wayne Burrows speaks to him about the work, currently on display at Kew Gardens, and BEAM, a companion piece on show at this year’s Wirksworth Festival.
An installation by Ann Veronica Janssens is currently filling the gallery at the Wellcome Collection in London with an enveloping and brightly-coloured mist, as the first part of a year-long exploration into the experience of human consciousness.
To launch our new series of picture-focused articles, we take a look at Los Angeles-based USC Fisher Museum of Art’s current exhibition which explores the complex relationship between humans, the oceans, and the things we throw away.
For Dark Matters, Edinburgh Printmakers has commissioned nine artists to create work in collaboration with astronomers and space engineers at the University of Edinburgh and the UK Astronomical Technology Centre. Richard Taylor sheds some light on the project.
To mark World Meteorological Day, Loughborough University is launching its Nowcasting programme of contemporary art, bringing artists together with scientists and including a spot of ‘smog tasting’.
Anna Dumitriu’s exhibition, The Romantic Disease: An Artistic Investigation of Tuberculosis, developed from a residency at the University of Oxford and culminates in a symposium on World TB Day. She talks about the ‘curious journey’ that led to her scientific and artistic exploration of this highly infectious, but curable, killer.
Fourteen projects have been announced as recipients of the Sciart Awards 2005.
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