ARTWORK

Videographer Alice Pollozi

Humphrey Davey’s Introductory Lecture in Chemistry 1802 inspired me to create a glass electrode entwined with tin wire, which I would, in collaboration with Stephen Perse Foundation, use in an electrolysis experiment to create tin crystals from tin II chloride solution.

As artist in residence at the Stephen Perse Foundation, I focused on the Visual Arts Building and the dynamics within. I was drawn to the marks made on its facade. The building’s name and status is shown above and, in contrast, at eye level the individual marks made by the students who are often compelled to leave their mark as evidence of their once belonging to that establishment. None of these marks penetrate deeply into the fabric of the building, just its first layer, its skin, as it were. Photographer John Moffett

As artist in residence at the Stephen Perse Foundation, I focused on the Visual Arts Building and the dynamics within. Buildings physically respond to temperature, light, humidity and motion – these elements shift and move the seemingly static. Shift explores the gradual transformation of a supporting steel brace. Photographer John Moffett

Whilst collaborating with Professor Ludovic Vallier at the Welcome Trust - Stem Cell Institute in Cambridge I was privileged enough to observe stem cells differentiating into nerve cells.  This pioneering science will hopefully transform the treatment of many human diseases - the unimaginable has become possible. I imagined a fertile neuron… a Fecund. Photographer John Moffett

The transparency and fragility of glass combined with the solidity and flexibility of copper seemed two unlikely allies and yet scientists have utilised the inert and insulating properties of glass, combined with the conducting properties of copper, to develop electrical interfaces that augment and enhance the body’s functions. Photographer Ester Segarra

Using the test tube as a starting point I have conducted a series of experiments, carried out in the kiln, to determine the ideal conditions required to alter the test tube shape, creating a colony of cellular shapes at various stages of differentiation. Photographer John Moffett