By Iminza Keboge
Published May 1, 2018
What has fine art got to do with science?
The answer to this is what members of the public were invited to discover for themselves by exploring the latest research and innovation through interactive demonstrations, workshops and live experiments in the British capital, London, as creativity and culture were brought at the forefront with live music, dance, theatre and an arts exhibition that explored the boundaries between medicine and the arts.
This took place during the annual Imperial Festival in Kensington April 28-29 where Suzi Morris, a former film art director, held a solo exhibition of oil paintings.
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Dr Morris’ exhibition, titled Of Blooded Things, featured as one of more than 150 exhibits within Imperial Festival; a free weekend event dedicated to sharing the best science and arts on offer from Imperial. This show an exciting fine art platform to the Festival where world-leading research at Imperial College London is brought into the public arena.
“Morris’ connections with Imperial College and Aix-Marseille University facilitate the profound effect of the language of science upon the visceral senses, becoming a medium through which decisions are made in her painting. Working in multiple layers of glaze, she enacts ‘lines’ as biomarkers or references to the human body. In an era of advancing technologies that mark a huge chronological shift within the new sciences, Morris constructs a narrative of sensations in which the scientific, and notions of ‘the self’ intersect with historical references,” said NoonPowell Fine Art who curated Of Blooded Things show.
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Morris’ was the first-ever staging of a solo art exhibition during Imperial festival which attracts around 20000 visitors annually.
The exhibition, according to NoonPowell Fine Art, drew huge crowds and many visitors jostled to have photographs taken while standing beside Dr Morris’ work.
Morris’ oil paintings, NoonPowell Fine Art says, “resonate so poetically with the most exciting scientific discoveries of our time. She describes her work and its juxtaposition with science with such clarity in this video, you cannot fail to be awe-struck, not only with her vision but also how the oils and each stroke of her paintbrush has a symbiotic correlation with a deeper and more philosophical approach and meaning of where art and science co-exist and collide.”
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Dr Suzi Morris was born in Ayr and originally studied Illustration and Design at Kingston University. The City & Guilds of London Art School marked her return to full time painting and she completed an MA in Fine Art before undertaking a practice based Professional Doctorate in Fine Art at the University of East London in 2017.
Formerly an art director in film, in 2016 she co- founded the da Vinci Artists Residency and has since been awarded a da Vinci Artists brush in her name. She now lives and works in London. Her paintings have featured in several exhibitions in the UK and Germany with work held in private collections in the USA, France, Germany, Thailand and Britain.