Anna Dumitriu is fast becoming Britain’s most celebrated bio-artist. She is best known for creating textile art with and about bacteria.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSy2XS5JLS4
For her latest show “The Romantic Disease: An Artistic Investigation of Tuberculosis” at the Watermans Art Centre, she has worked at the cutting edge of research alongside Oxford University and Public Health England scientists from the UK Clinical Research Consortium: Modernising Medical Microbiology Project. The show explores the history of TB from artistic, social and scientific perspectives and covers subjects such as superstitions about the disease, its literary and romantic associations, the development of antibiotics and the latest research into whole genome sequencing of bacteria.
As well as the exhibition, The Romantic Disease has an ‘open lab’ art/science workshop with Anna Dumitriu, Dr Simon Park and Dr Melissa Grant. This will run on five Saturdays, 11am – 5pm, on 15th and 22nd February, 1st, 15th and 22nd March 2014.Visitors on those days will see the group at work in the gallery.
www.openlabworkshop.eventbrite.co.uk
16th January 2014 – 24th March 2014 Open Daily 12pm (noon) – 9pm
Watermans Art Centre
40 High Street,
Brentford,
West London, TW8 0DS
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