The Sketchbook and the Collider

https://www.thesketchbookandthecollider.com

The artist – Ian Andrews

Andrews has a diverse practice that has involved painting, drawing, sculpture and film, often presented in sprawling installations. Reduced concentrated versions exist as a series of A3 hand-drawn books on tissue paper often over 50 pages long.

Consistent themes involve the primacy of drawing and the importance of “networks structures” in a variety of contexts. Whether neuronal networks that create thoughts in the brain, or the quantum “spin” networks of subatomic structures.

In 2018 he completed a life-changing residency at the University of Birmingham working with Prof.Nikolopoulos of the Particle Physics group that has resulted in a re-examination of the basic visual language of drawing and an extremely focused practice

The physicist – Professor Kostas Nikolopoulos 

An experimental particle physicist at the University of Birmingham, he was strongly involved in the Higgs boson discovery at CERN in 2012. He led a group of 80 physicists searching for Higgs decays in four- lepton events.

He received the 2019 Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists in the UK for his leadership and personal contributions.

He aspires to further our understanding of mass generation for matter and is committed to inspiring a new generation of scientists and citizens through cross-disciplinary collaboration and outreach activities.