Neuro-Art

Last week I was at the Neuro-Art conference hosted by Plymouth University. A fascinating crossover of science, biology, art and technology: using live brain cells to make music, control a […]

Seeing is believing

This morning I spent observing in the x-ray department, looking at intestines after the patients has swallow barium to highlight the lining of the gut. That barium tastes disgusting, like […]

Warp and weave

Now completing the molecular models for the Clay10 project. What has surprised me working with such a supposedly rigid modelling system is just how flexible it becomes as it grows, […]

More-than-human

A quote from David Abram’s The Spell of the Sensuous and a picture of birdsong from my project Birds of the Antarctic: “Caught in a mass of abstractions, our attention […]

Looking the wrong way

It is such a challenging time within the hospital. The current round of budget cuts combined with the new framework for the NHS that is in pipeline makes Derriford Hospital […]

Live interval

‘Birds that feed on fish; their excrement will form the beginning of an oasis in which human beings can live, until the next stream of lava smothers it all.’ Manfred […]

It’s Mezz this evening

We are showing films by Phillip Warnell this evening at Mezz (www.mezz.info). He works with medical imagery and links this to the outside world. A man after my own heart!

Looking through others’ eyes

I am giving a talk at Plymouth University tomorrow, entitled ‘Looking through others’ eyes’. Thinking about the breast screening unit at Derriford, and how the consultant there sees so much […]

Dancing with Quartz

I’m working on an atomic model for quartz at the moment. It is one of the constituents of the clay that lies beneath the hospital. Quartz has a very regular […]

I will start in the new year.

I am currently Associate Artist in Derriford Hospital, Plymouth, an Arts Council funded post (2010–11).