Abstract
Exhibition Dates: Saturday 28 June 2025 - Friday 3 October 2025
Though our Wellcome Centre project, we’ve had the incredible good fortune to work with Janice Aitken over the past 8 years. A leader in the field of art and public engagement, she’s been an amazing supporter of our collaborations. She has facilitated workshops, created game props and tools for engagement activities and contributed photographic work to projects celebrating diversity. in science.
“I am an artist and educator from Dundee, Scotland and a Reader in Art & Design at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee. I find art/science collaboration to be a fascinating and rewarding activity.”
“I genuinely believe that the creativity and speculative imagination necessary to be an artist are also key elements of scientific discovery. In this exhibition I hope that I have successfully communicated the positive effects of this ongoing spirit of collaboration.”
Janice has worked in collaboration with scientists for over 20 years on a wide range of projects from illustrations for major scientific papers and journals to exhibitions of digital works and an animated video learning tool based on the eukaryotic cell.
For this exhibition she has created a body of work inspired by biological forms that also incorporates elements of synaesthesia, psychedelia with a little bit of science fiction thrown in. Also featured is a group of works created in collaboration with Dr Mattie Christine Pawlowic whose lab researches potential treatments and prevention of cryptosporidium infection.
| Original language | English |
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| Place of Publication | Dundee, UK |
| Publisher | LifeSpace, Science Art Research Gallery |
| Media of output | Other |
| Publication status | Published - 28 Jun 2025 |
UN SDGs
This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
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Dive into the research topics of 'Life Music: Solo Exhibition, LifeSpace, University of Dundee'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.Projects
- 1 Finished
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Wellcome Centre for Anti-Infectives Research
Baragana, B. (Investigator), Cook, S. (Investigator), De Rycker, M. (Investigator), Fairlamb, A. (Investigator), Ferguson, M. (Investigator), Field, M. (Investigator), Gilbert, I. (Investigator), Gray, D. (Investigator), Horn, D. (Investigator), Lee, M. (Investigator), Pawlowic, M. C. (Investigator), Read, K. (Investigator), Wyatt, P. (Investigator) & Wyllie, S. (Investigator)
1/04/17 → 1/04/25
Project: Research
Activities
- 1 Public engagement and outreach - festival/exhibition
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Life Music exhibition and drop-in art workshop
Aitken, J. (Presenter), Cameron, A. (Organiser), Swatek, K. (Participant), Siddiqui, R. (Participant), Vats, A. (Participant), Rathod, S. (Participant), Prescott, A. (Contributor) & Sknepnek, R. (Contributor)
28 Sept 2025Activity: Other activity types › Public engagement and outreach - festival/exhibition
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