Friday 2 November 2012

More Science Life Drawing Photographs


I'm gradually posting (as I receive them) a selection of all the photographs taken during Jiggling Atom's Science Life Drawing Class.

Here are some silhouette pictures, we used overhead projectors for projected light, the machines also magnified small objects such as coiled wire, coins and sugar granules.





Wednesday 31 October 2012

Wildman Life Drawing at Supersonic.


The Wildman traveled all the way to Birmingham for his third (& possibly last outing.)

The class formed part of the workshops taking place during Supersonic's 10th music festival.
Saturday's theme was mavericks , Sunday's was the Wildman.

Two classes took place each lasting an hour, the first was attended  predominately by Mothers, Fathers and their small children.  The children had great fun prodding and shouting at the Wildman to cry. The class reminded me of a Punch & Judy show, the children were liberated, screaming, shouting, jump around and being wild.





Harriet Cory-Wright and Stephen Fowler's Science Life Drawing Workshop


Science Life Drawing Class

The CPT transformation turns our universe into its mirror image, but what happens when a divergent component breaks this symmetry?

The class will concentrate on explaining and exploring the visual conventions of CPT symmetry theory. Participants will navigate though a series of staged compositions in exercises that look at symmetries in anatomical and structural form and transformations that are involved the simultaneous, and asynchronousinversions in chargeparity, and time
Harriet Cory-Wright.


The  Life Drawing Class was one of the many workshops, talks and demonstrations that took place over the length of the Jiggling Atoms Exhibition.

These included; Super/Collider's Chris Hatherill talking about the DIY Particle Accelerator, Speed Cartoonist Ellen Cummins documentation of Saturdays happenings, Natalie Kay-Thatcher & Super/Collider's Abby Schlageter Feynmn's Diagram print workshop, Ben Still's Lego Universe workshop, Jennifer Crouch's Electrickery workshop, Strange Attractor vs Disinformation Circuit Blasting demonstration, Adrain Holme's talk 'To a balloon laden with knowledge' and a science comedy set by Robin Ince.     


It was really interesting and rewarding process devising the class with Harriet and modelling along with her, Rosie and John.

Being  a builder of props, having a role of one of the instructors and life models, sometimes together sometimes separately was  a highly creative free flowing process. I'd like to experience this again, next time encouraging the  participants to also join in with creating props, modelling and moving to music and the mood of the class as well as drawing the happening, this could take place over a length of a day and evening.

More photographs to follow.




Jiggling Atoms.


Over the last 8 months I have been taking part in the Particle Physics Project Jiggling Atoms. 























Jiggling Atoms is an interdisciplinary science and illustration project exploring the wonders of particle physics, sponsored by the Science and Technology Facilities Council and the Institute of Physics. 25 artists illustrate the atomic world as seen through the eyes of a scientist; from the inner workings of atoms to the motion of galaxies. By mixing knitting and black holes, paint and giant particle-detectors, the atomic space collides with the gallery space!
The unique spirit of Jiggling Atoms is based on the collaboration between the artists and research physicists Malte Oppermann (Imperial College London) and Dr. Ben Still (Queen Mary University). Inspired by Nobel-laureate Richard Feynman and his wonderful ability to teach physics to non-scientists, teaching was the starting point of the project. All artists attended a lecture series held at Imperial College London throughout April and May 2012, written especially for the project by Oppermann and Jennifer Crouch. It was in these talks that the artists explored a plethora of astonishing topics in particle physics, the likes of which, through their own creative education, they were unlikely to have studied in any real depth. We believe this unique teaching-based art initiative creates a new space for science and art.

The challenge was then set to create games, images, sculptures, comic strips or info-graphics, encouraging our artists to combine what they had learnt about scientific principles with their interpretative skills as artists. This exhibition will host the talents of recent graduates as well as more established artists, including Sister Arrow, Zeel, Stephen Fowler, Katie Scott, Peter Nencini, Grace Helmer, Jimmy Patrick, Elizabeth Towndrow, Jack Hughes, Bryony Quinn, Peter Rhodes and many more.

Jiggling Atoms was conceived by Natalie Kay-Thatcher and is co-curated and organised by Rosie Eveleigh, Malte Oppermann, Dr. Ben Still and Jennifer Crouch. With support from the Science and Technology Facilities Council and The Institute of Physics Public Engagement Grant, Jiggling Atoms seeks to increase the presence of science in the visual arts, opening a channel of science-oriented communication rarely used in this context or with this intensity.

Friday 6 July 2012

Paul Thek's 96 Sacraments - Praise the Lord.

A Paul Thek Journal.
I visited the Paul Thek journal show in Glasgow a few months ago and came across his 96 Sacraments.He celebrated everything, the small, the everyday.He celebrated the present.

96 Sacraments 

1. To wake up Praise the Lord
2. To breathe Praise the Lord.
3. To touch the earth Praise the Lord
4. To pee, Praise the Lord
To make a fire Praise the Lord
5.To wash,to comb your hair, Praise the Lord.
6. To prepare breakfast, Praise the Lord.
To squeeze a Lemon, Praise the Lord
7. To eat breakfast Praise the Lord
8. To do the dishes Praise the Lord.
9.  To clean up, Praise the Lord
10. To write a letter, Praise the Lord.
11. To mail a letter, Praise the Lord.
12. To go out, Praise the Lord
13. To see the sun Praise the Lord
14. To do the shopping Praise the Lord
15. To talk with some people, Praise the Lord.
16. To buy the paper, Praise the Lord
17. To come home Praise the Lord.
18. To go to work Praise the Lord
19. To work Praise the Lord.
20. To have lunch, Praise the Lord
21. To work in the afternoon, Praise the Lord.
22, To notice the light changing Praise the Lord.
23. To see a cat Praise the Lord.
24. To see a dog , Praise the Lord.
25. To stop for a rest Praise the Lord.
26. To go home for dinner, sing Praises
27. To talk with neighbours, sing praises
28. To talk with a neighbours child, sing praises.
29. To kiss somone, sing praises.
30. To eat dinner, sing praises
31. To eat dinner with friends, sing praises
32. To eat dinner with children, sing praises
33. To eat dinner alone, sing praises
34. To have dinner with someone, sing praises.
35. To think of love, Praise the Lord.
36. To think of hope, Praise the Lord.
37. To think, praise the Lord.
38. To dream, sing praises.

More to follow ....


 The Whitney Museum of American Art says. . .


 Paul Thek’s “96 Sacraments” were written in one of his notebooks (#75, 1975). Thek wrote in a journal daily in the 1970s and 80s. Upon his death he had filled almost 100 journals, most of which were black and white composition books.

In the catalogue for
Paul Thek: Diver, A Retrospective, Tina Kukielski writes: “Like most journals, they reveal deeply personal thoughts about friends, relationships, and sex, as well as Thek’s private shames and insecurities, and his efforts—like prayers—to be better in every way, especially as an artist.”