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Joan Smith

 

Joan Smith is an artist based in Edinburgh. Her work is inspired by archives and collections, medicine, anatomy, anthropology, archaeology and the natural world, amongst other things! She particularly enjoys working collaboratively with other artists and scientists: collaboration brings with it sometimes unexpected conversations, projects and opportunities. Joan is a member of the
art/science group, Fusion, the anthropology group, Bones Collective, the Society of Scottish Artists and Visual Arts Scotland.

 

Recent projects include Skull Colour Chart (SSA 2021) an evolving artwork where the focus is on rethinking the University of Edinburgh skull collection through analysis of skull colours; Field Notes
(Surgeons Hall Museum, Edinburgh, 2018 -19), a joint exhibition with fellow artist Susie Wilson that explored the work of the Scottish Women’s Hospitals in the first World War and she was part of
TRACES (2015 – 2018), a Europe-wide Horizon 2020 funded multi-disciplinary research project that addressed contentious collections across Europe. In the last year Joan has co-authored, with scientist Janet Philp, two book chapters on the use of textiles in understanding the anatomy of the human body, one in Teaching, Research, Innovation and Public Engagement (Springer 2022) and another in Biomedical Visualisation (Springer 2023). Joan’s installation about how plastic pollution affects the sea and the creatures that live in it, Sea Amulets, featured in the 2023 Hidden Door Festival.


Joan is currently working with Janet Philp on I’ve Got Your Back, a public engagement project focusing on understanding back health through working with needle felt. The resulting installation will be shown in the Anatomical Museum, University of Edinburgh, from October 2023.

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Joan can be contacted via our Contact us page


Instagram @joansmithartist


www.fusionartsci.co.uk/

Tom Pratt

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Tom Pratt is a lecturer in Biomedical Sciences at the University of Edinburgh where he teaches principles of developmental biology on a number of courses. His main research interest is investigating how changes to genetic sequences affect the development of the brain.

 

He has been involved in the FUSION group which aims to connect people from different disciplines to create and exhibit their works for a number of years and has enjoyed collaborating with artists and scientists, being inspired, and making objects in the process 

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Thom can be contacted via our Contact us page

 

https://www.fusionartsci.co.uk/

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David Price

 

David Price is Professor of Developmental Neurobiology at Edinburgh University. Which means he studies how brains develop and how they might become diverse or disordered. That's what most of his work is on, but he's also interested in the history of neuroscience - in particular, the era of the phrenologists and their crazy ideas - and runs an Our Minds program for projects in any discipline on how we think. He has been a member of the Art-Science Fusion group for many years and has exhibited work with the group. He has organised and spoken at many public events. He chairs the Africa Working Group at the Royal Society of Edinburgh, which aims to enhance collaborations between Scotland and the African continent. 

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David can be contacted via our Contact us page

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www.fusionartsci.co.uk/

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