- Venue
- Newarke Houses Museum
- Starts
- Monday, March 12, 2018
- Ends
- Saturday, March 31, 2018
- Address
- Newarke Houses Museum & Gardens, The Newarke, Leicester, LE2 7BY
- Location
- East Midlands
- Organiser
- University of Leicester
The University of Leicester invited artists to take part in its British Science Week through the Brief Encounters initiative, hosting 8 Mini Science/Art Residencies. Artists were invited to spend time with University of Leicester scientists in their environment and to share each other’s practices, culminating in this exhibition. The Brief Encounters initiative is led by Professor Turi King (UoL), the late event on Thursday 15th March will be a chance to meet some of the artists involved.
Artists taking part
- Kate Bajic – jewellery
- Amica Dickson – fine art
- Graham Ensor – installation art
- Phil Hackett – illustration
- Kathryn Parsons – mixed media
- Ruth Singer – textiles
- Mita Solanky – visual art
- Lucy Stevens – exploring acoustic ecology
Scientists taking part
- Dr Steven Foster – Department of Genetics and Genome Biology
- Professor Flaviano Giorgini – Department of Genetics and Genome Biology
- John Holt – Space Research Centre
- Dr Jonathan Nichols – Department of Physics and Astronomy
- Dr Kim Page – Department of Physics and Astronomy
- Gayle Price – the University’s very own Scientific Glassblower!
- Dr Nicola Royle – Department of Genetics and Genome Biology
Dates: Friday 9th March – Saturday 31 March
Times: 10.00am – 4.00pm (Sundays 11.00am – 4.00pm)
Late Opening Thursday 15th March 5pm-7pm
