Final project - 2nd Year

I want to continue on with the development of medical process but focus on one discovery rather than looking at a few at the same time. Looking at  the discovery of the X-Ray. the colours in a x-ray can be kinda of cold or cool, I want to use the imagery but impose more warm or earthy colours on them. an element of the last project which I enjoyed was the circular boards with I used, because of the shape there is no set composition this I felt meant that the viewer could chose the orientation of the work. In this series the paintings are mounted on the wall using bolts which allow the paintings to rotate. 

The Hunt - Discoveries

Discoveries, Oil and acrylic paint on board.

My piece aims to explore the discoveries, inventions and theories that have shaped the history of medical practice. The development of medicine is such a huge part of human history and the invention of the microscope has had a massive role on medical discoveries. I have been investigating these discoveries, beginning with anatomically inspired images and going on to explore how scientific and biological processes have impacted modern medicine, from distinguishing veins from arteries to the discovery of the genome. Discoveries is inspired by these breakthroughs and attempts to represent this development of modern medicine.

2nd Year - Semester 1 - the botanical and anatomical

Over the course of this semester I moved from botanical images of seaweed to consider biological and anatomical images. I began this development by looking at microscopic images of leaves or feathers to looking at fungi and bacteria to the structure of cells and such within a body. I found the scientific process that made this viewing of the molecular and cellular structure possible very interesting, such as the instruments and dyes used. Both of these inspired the shape (Petri dishes) and colour of the work. Petri dishes when looked at by the eye appear grimy and dirty, it is when looked at through a microscope we can see the structure. I want to incorporate both these elements into the pieces. While doing this I was researching the muscular structure of the human body, something that if we were shown a diagram of, we can easily comprehend and relate to but when we take a small detail we can still relate to biological images but find it harder to relate the image directly to ourselves. I wanted to explore what the naked eye is unable to see.