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MutualArt May 18, 2011
Under the Microscope: Art on a Cellular Level
Contrary to popular belief, beauty is not only skin deep: there is plenty to fascinate right beneath the surface. This is certainly true for artist Jo Berry, whose latest work illuminates the exquisite cellular workings of the human body.
Artist uses live cells to create new form of design
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/8383363/Artist-uses-live-cells-to-create-new-form-of-design.html
These patterns are created not with pencils or pixels, but a new technique which records the shapes made by human cells as they react in the body.
Hijacking Natural Systems blog and other imagery
You can view images, animations, quick time movies and text on the regularly up dated blog http://www.joberry-artist.blogspot.com as well as looking at the news section of this website.
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New Vinyl ArtWork Derby City Centre coming soon
‘Hijacking Natural Systems’, a Vinyl Art Work, Market Square, Derby.
This is a project where ‘Art Meets Science’. I hope people will enjoy the imagery and see the connection between the source material (Live Cells) and how it has been interpretated in a different way using digital drawing techniques.
The three panels shown (from left to right) are titled:
1. HEK + tetracyline calcium ghrelin extracted shape.
2. Ghrelin + tetracycline + transferrin 20 minutes stereo image.
3. Ghrelin con tetracycline ghrelin 10 mins 3D extracted movie.
Jo Berry spent six months working with scientists at the Queens Medical Centre in Nottingham, studying how a ‘hunger’ hormone stimulates the body’s cells, potentially paving the way for new drug treatments for obesity and diabetes by‘turning on and off hunger’.
She turned this research into a stunning series of digital drawings and lightboxes to promote the connection between art and science.
Look out for Jo Berry’s exhibition of multi -layered sculptural lightboxes, digital drawings, vinyl artwork, animations and film at Derby Museum and Art Gallery from 23 July to 30 October 2011
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Art meets Science what an adventure..
Since, April I have been working in the Department of Cell Signalling in the Laboratory for Molecular Pharmacology and Biophysics at the University of Nottingham Medical School which has given me a unique insight into how scientists work within this specialist area.
For me, personally its been a baptism of fire, as I have not had any experience or knowledge of science since secondary school and that is over twenty five years ago. Working as a research scientist within this department has been a huge but exhilarating learning curve. I am working in collaboration with Dr Nicholas Holliday (RCUK Roberts Academic Fellow) and Tim Self (Chief Experimental Officer). We are looking at ‘Hijacking Natural Systems”, to discover how cells work from a drug perspective.
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