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This painting, in oil on canvas, features iconography borrowed from the Harlequin motif that was developed at the turn of the 20th Century by artists including Pablo Picasso and Paul Cezanne. Harlequin or Arlecchino in Italian, Arlequin in French, and […]
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I first met with the poets Matthew Clegg, Chris Jones and the photographer Karl Hirst to discuss this new creative collaboration – to be entitled Tissues and Organs – in Site Cafe, Sheffield in mid December 2011. Chris and I […]
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Away from the Pod, currently installed within the Millennium Galleries, Sheffield, is the third of a series of ‘encounters’ with the scale of life-sized cetaceans that I have attempted to realise through drawing. One of the great advantages of the […]
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Preliminary sketch for drawing to measure 1.5m x 1.5m. Heligmosomoides polygyrus is a common nematode found in the duodenum and small intestine of woodmice and other rodents. It is often used to model human helminth infection in laboratory mice. These […]
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Sketch for life-sized drawing of bowhead whale (Balaeana mysticetus) – to measure 10m x 6m. The bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) is a baleen whale of the right whale family Balaenidae. A stocky dark-colored whale without a dorsal fin, it can […]
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The Lab Model An animal model is a living, non-human animal used during the research and investigation of human disease, for the purpose of better understanding the disease without the added risk of causing harm to an actual human being […]
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Trypanosoma and Darwin’s Disease Trypanosoma is a genus of kinetoplastids (class Kinetoplastida), a group of unicellular parasitic flagellate protozoa. The name is derived from the Greek trypano (borer) and soma (body) because of their corkscrew-like motion. All trypanosomes are heteroxenous […]
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Like lovers entwined … Preliminary sketch for drawing to measure 1.5m x 1.5m. The Schistosoma are a genus of trematodes (otherwise known as platyhelminthes, flatworms or ‘flukes’). Unlike other trematodes, the schistosomes are dioecious – i.e. the sexes are separate […]
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Trichuris trichiura Preliminary sketches for drawing to measure 1.5m x 1.5m. The human whipworm (Trichuris trichiura or Trichocephalus trichiuris) is a roundworm, which causes trichuriasis when it infects a human large intestine. The name whipworm refers to the shape of […]
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Orca Preliminary drawing for ‘Away from the Pod’: a life-sized (5m x 1.5m) drawing of a killer whale which will feature as part of ‘Under the Sea’, an exhibition curated by Rowena Hamilton which opens in January 2012 at Millennium […]
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The Beast Within Giardia is a genus of protozoan parasites of the phylum Metamonada that colonise and reproduce in the small intestines of several vertebrates, causing giardiasis, which is commonly known as Beaver fever. Chief pathways of human infection include […]
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Origin 011 | Introduction My name is Paul Evans and I am a visual artist based in Sheffield, UK. My practice encompasses a variety of creative strategies including drawing, painting and animation. I use these to explore the complex field […]