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Join us as we launch this bright, colourful new science art exhibition.

At WCAIR, we’ve had the incredible good fortune to work with Janice Aitken over the past 8 years. A leader in the field of art and public engagement, she’s been an amazing supporter of our collaborations. She has facilitated workshops, created game props and tools for engagement activities and contributed photographic work to projects celebrating diversity in science.

“I am an artist and educator from Dundee, Scotland and a Reader in Art & Design at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee. I find art/science collaboration to be a fascinating and rewarding activity.”

“I genuinely believe that the creativity and speculative imagination necessary to be an artist are also key elements of scientific discovery. In this exhibition I hope that I have successfully communicated the positive effects of this ongoing spirit of collaboration.”

Janice has worked in collaboration with scientists for over 20 years on a wide range of projects from illustrations for major scientific papers and journals to exhibitions of digital works and an animated video learning tool based on the eukaryotic cell.For this exhibition she has created a body of work inspired by biological forms that also incorporates elements of synaesthesia, psychedelia with a little bit of science fiction thrown in. Also featured is a group of works created in collaboration with Dr Mattie Pawlowic whose lab researches potential treatments and prevention of cryptosporidium infection.