conference & exhibition
ORGANISERS AND SPEAKERS
Pascale Pollier
Pascale’s work attempts to capture the point where art and science meld. An alchemist at heart, her work begins with observation and experimentation and is steeped in solid scientific research and findings. She studied fine art in Belgium, and subsequently a postgraduate training with the Medical Artists Association in London. She is co-founder and president of BIOMAB, she is curating and organising exhibitions, dissection drawing classes, collaborative art/science projects and conferences. In 2015 she became co-founder and president of ARSIC “Art Researches Science International Collaborations, an international collective where Art and Science become entangled. From 2007-2018 Pascale worked as an artistic assistant for Belgian Artist Jan Fabre, gaining a great deal of material knowledge and experience of exhibiting his work in places such as the Louvre Museum, Paris, and the Venice Biennale, and other major galleries and art festivals.
Pascale was an external examiner for the medical art course at The Centre for Anatomy & Human Identification, University of Dundee, and from 2017-2020 was an external examiner for the MA Art in Science course at John Moores University, Liverpool. Pascale is past President of AEIMS 2014-2020. And is Chairman of the Medical Artists Association of Great Britain. Pascale currently lives and works in Liverpool worked as a research assistant at the FaceLab . for the past 2 years Pascale worked as a medical illustrator for crosscover at Primum digital.
she now is a self employed artist./sculptor@artem-medicalis
Sandra De Clerck
is an artist who lives and works in Ghent, Belgium.
Sandra De Clerck's work investigates the narrative and expressive possibilities of glass.
Since 2003 De Clerck has been the department head of IKA glass at the Institute of Arts and Crafts in Mechelen, Belgium (www.ikamechelen.be). De Clerck has been a curator of glass exhibitions in museums in Europe such as "Belgium Glass" in Riihimaki Finland and has been a guest lecturer and teacher in various Universities in Europe and the U.S. including the Estonian Academy of Arts and the University of Helsinki. Her work is represented in private and museum collections around the world.
Andrew Burd
"Andrew Burd is a Scottish medic. He has dedicated his professional life to metamorphosis; taking a delicate young spirit, trapped in a carapace of scar and through art and anatomy, through the medium of surgery, giving children the freedom to fly. As the eyes dim, the insights grow brighter. Years of laboratory research, academic studies, teaching, training and helping so many patients; I am moving on. I am fascinated by the interface between man and machine. Not just the physical but what about other forms of control/interaction? Bluetooth? Wifi? Upper limb amputation, which would you prefer? Transplantation or prosthesis? Not a simple question but there is a simple answer: bionic prosthesis. 100%. No question. Okay, follow up question. Major traumatic damage or loss to all or part of the face; transplant or mask? Mask? What sort of mask? A bionic mask: an intimate union between materials and biology powered and controlled by a bio-sensory interface. Transplantation is working against nature. The revolution which we are proposing is to work with nature, to combine, to integrate. It works well with smartphones! Great with upper limb smart prostheses. What about bionic facial prostheses? Start small, think big, So here i am, facing the future and looking at future faces."
Nina Sellars
Dr Nina Sellars is a visual artist, scholar, and curator. Currently, she is a creative consultant for GIDbio: a regenerative medicine company specialising in adipose-derived technologies. Previously, she was the curator of exhibitions and events at the Harry Brookes Allen Museum of Anatomy and Pathology, University of Melbourne, Australia (2019 – 2022); and a curator for the Australian Network of Art and Technology Triennial, ANAT Spectra 2022: Multiplicity. She was also artist in residence at SymbioticA: The Centre of Excellence in Biological Arts, The University of Western Australia (2016 – 2018); and research fellow at the Alternate Anatomies Lab (robotics and art research group), Curtin University, W.A. (2014 – 2016).
Recent exhibitions of her work include: Comparative Guts, Kiel University, Germany (2023);
The Brain on Art, The Brain Observatory, San Diego, USA (2022); Anatomy & Beyond, RSU Anatomy Museum, Rīga Stradiņš University, Latvia (2021); and HyperPrometheus: The Legacy of Frankenstein, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Western Australia, (2018). Her recent authored publications include: 'Fat Matters: Fluid Interventions in Anatomy’, in Fluid Matter(s): Flow and Transformation in the History of the Body, ANU Press (2020); and 'Robert Hooke’s Micrographia: a historical guide to navigating contemporary images’, in the Routledge Handbook of Art, Science, and Technology Studies (2021).
Sellars lectures in anatomy for artists; figure and perceptual drawing; new media arts theory; and critical posthumanism.
Andrew Carnie
Andrew Carnie is an internationally exhibiting contemporary visual artist practicing in the UK. He is an emeritus fellow at the Winchester School of Art, Southampton University. His main concerns focus on the interface of art and science, often working in collaboration with scientists, though not exclusively. His approach is media agnostic, using methodologies and media as informed by the context, concepts, and concerns. Drawing, painting, and sculpting have an enduring place in his practice, but video, projection, and installation are his primary strengths. He creates environments that are endlessly fascinating around subjects, like heart transplants, metabolism, and neurological conditions that intrigue him, and engage audiences in how we see ourselves through the world of science.
Recent work has been exhibited in museums and galleries worldwide including the Fundación Telefónica, Madrid. the CCCB, Barcelona, Brain Observatory, San Diego, Kunsthall Charlottenborg, København, the RSU Anatomical Museum, Riga, the Spencer Museum of Art, Kansas, and the Science Gallery, Bengalru.
website: https://www.andrewcarnie.uk
science and art blog: http://scienceandart--andrew-carnie.blogspot.com/
Bryan W. Green
Bryan founded the Moodist Movement in 1976 out of a need to give a name to the various activities that made up his work--activities that fused into a philosophy not happy to be called Art. Moodism is the Playing, To Exhaustion, of No Game In Particular. Moodism is the Art or Science of Escaping from Self-imposed Misery. B.Green Moodist
Bryan is sculptor/poet/performance
artist and co-Founder of ARSIC ( Art Researches Science International Collaborations)
Michael Sappol
is a historian of visual culture and medicine and science, and Visiting Researcher in the History of Science and Ideas at Uppsala University. His latest book is Queer Anatomies: Aesthetics & desire in the anatomical image 1700-1900 (Bloomsbury, 2024). He is also the author of A Traffic of Dead Bodies: Anatomy & embodied social identity in 19th-century America (2002) and Body Modern: Fritz Kahn, scientific illustration & the homuncular subject (2017). Current projects: “Anatomy’s photography: Objectivity, showmanship & the reinvention of the anatomical image”; “Endangered specimens, unaccountable objects: Historical medical collections and competing ethical claims upon them.” For links to selected works, go to
Mara G. Haseltine
Mara G. Haseltine is an international artist, a pioneer in the field of SciArt, and an environmental activist and educator. Haseltine collaborates with scientists and engineers to create work that addresses the link between our cultural and biological evolution. Her work takes place in the studio, lab and field, infusing scientific inquiry with poetry. She was a pioneer in the translation of scientific data and bioinformatics into three-dimensional sculptures and became known for her outsized renditions of microscopic and sub-microscopic life. She created the first solar-powered oyster reef in NYC and has extensively studied sustainable reef restoration methods for the past 15 years, fusing art with sustainable solutions for ‘SIDS,’ Small Island Developing States at the United Nations. Haseltine has been a contributing member of the Explorers Club since 2008. She was awarded Return of the Flag with Honors for her work on the high seas with Tara Expeditions studying atmospheric climate change and its relationship to planktonic ecosystems. Haseltine’s work is refreshing in the world of environmental and biomedical art because of its surreal, often-playful and witty nature, as well as her intense devotion to ascetics and sensuality. For full CV and website :www.calamara.com
Francis Wells
Francis Wells is a Cardiothoracic surgeon based in Papworth Hospital, part of the University of Cambridge group of specialist hospitals. Trained in London, Cambridge and the University of Alabama in Birmingham Alabama where he was senior research fellow to Professor John Kirklin, a founding father of modern cardiac surgical practice. His specialist area of interest has been heart valve reconstruction, cardiopulmonary transplantation and the surgical management of intra-thoracic malignancy.
In parallel with his clinical practice Francis has had a lifelong interest in the arts and a specific interest in the Renaissance, having studied in depth the work of Leonardo da Vinci. This work led recently to the publication of his book The Heart of Leonardo.
He has sponsored several artists in residence within his clinical practice and this has led to several pieces which have appeared in major exhibitions including the Royal Academy summer show. Himself a recipient of the Sir Hugh Casson prize for drawing, Francis enjoys drawing, painting and playing the piano.
Eleanor Crook
Eleanor Crook trained in sculpture at Central St Martins and the Royal Academy and makes figures and effigies in wax, carved wood and lifelike media. She has also made a special study of anatomy and has sculpted anatomical and pathological waxworks for the Gordon Museum of Pathology at Guy's Hospital, London's Science Museum, and the Royal College of Surgeons of England. She exhibits internationally in both fine art and science museum contexts. She learned the technique of forensic facial reconstruction modelling from Richard Neave and has demonstrated and taught this to artists, forensic anthropology students, law enforcement officers and plastic surgeons as well as incorporating this practice in her own sculpted people.
Melissa Wert
Melissa Wert is the Commercial and Operations Officer at the Florence Nightingale Museum. This museum focuses on telling the story of Florence Nightingale, the 'mother of modern nursing', with the world. Melissa is originally from the United States and has just this year graduated from Goldsmiths University with a masters degree in Anthropology and Museum Practice. She has years of experience working with small, independent museums and is dedicated to telling stories in thoughtful and engaging ways.
William Edwards
William Edwards, Curator of the Gordon Museum, Senior Tutor and Deputy course director of the Extended Medical degree Programme (EMPD). Working primarily with undergraduate Medical and Dental education, but also with many Para-medical specialities. Occasionally assists various Police forces in cold case investigations. Represents KCL with issues relating to Medical Museums, the UK Human Tissue Authority, Medical History and Art and Medicine. Works on behalf of Kings College London (KCL) with the Access to Medicine and Widening Participation programmes.
Studied as undergraduate and postgraduate in the University of London in Biology – particular background in Physiology and Developmental Biology.
During the late 1970’s worked as a scientist in industry, moving into Medical and Dental education in the Gordon Museum at the Guy's Hospital Campus in 1980. After five years moved to St. Thomas’ Hospital Campus to take over the then independent Pathology Museum. After seven years and the merger of the pathology museums at Guy's and St. Thomas' returned to Guy’s campus as deputy Curator, Curator now for the last eighteen years.
Ann Van de Velde
Haematologist and Medical Artist
is president of the Association Européenne des Illustrateurs Médicaux et Scientifiques/the European Organization of Medical and Scientific Illustrators. In medical sciences, traditionally illustrations are created to enable communication between scientist and reader, teacher and student and physician and patient. Art and science come together in medical illustration. With BIOMAB - Biological and Medical Art Belgium - she organizes international dissection drawing days for students in Art and Medicine. The dissection process is done and explained by Antwerp based anatomist Francis Van Glabbeek and afterwards the specimens are displayed from different angles to draw from. Like the word sanguine - having the colour of blood, characterized by abundance and active circulation of blood, anticipating the best, confident and full of hope - BIOMAB is a platform for cross-over encounters between people. When we start drawing, painting and photographing, we transform the space into a living lab. Sketches are hung on walls and windows and are placed on tables. With every sketch, there is a certain trepidation that must be overcome. Part of the trepidation falls off because we work directly. We can draw what we see or what we experience and feel. Of course, the interpretative results of the spontaneous sketches may be a long way from anatomical correctness, but these sketches are certainly fascinating scribbles of characters for future artwork. When seeing the drawings and listening at the conversations, it is clear to us that to know we always have to go deeper than our skin and protective layers, deeper than tendons, muscles, blood vessels and nerves, down to the bone. With fragile surgical precision and strong poetry.
Alexander Bieri
Alexander Lukas Bieri has been the curator of The Roche Historical Collection and Archive for twenty years. He is responsible for the in-house museums, collections and archives which include major assets on the history of pharmacy, medicine and art (and an anatomical collection). His publications include works on art and architectural history as well as on the history of science and business. He is currently chairman of the International Council on Archives’ Section on Business Archives and of the German Business Archivists Association’s Section on Archives of the Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industry. Alex is also a member of ICOMOS Switzerland and in this capacity a specialist for 20th century interior design.
Mark Roughley
Mark Roughley is a Lecturer in 3D Digital Art to Reader in Interdisciplinary Digital Visualisation at Liverpool School of Art and Design, and a member of the Face Lab research group that explores faces and art-science applications. Mark trained as a medical artist, gaining his MSc in Medical Art from the University of Dundee, and specializes in visualizing anatomy through 3D data acquisition, modeling, and fabrication. His research focuses on the affordances that 3D digital technologies allow for both digital and haptic interaction with anatomical and cultural artifacts. Mark is also the host of Liverpool LASER (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous) Talks that bring artists and scientists together for informal presentations and conversations on art, science, and technology. (University Profile)
Martin Kemp
is a British art historian and exhibition curator who is one of the world's leading authorities on the life and works of Leonardo da Vinci.
The author of many books on Leonardo, Kemp has also written about visualisation in art and science, particularly anatomy, natural sciences and optics.
Instrumental in the controversial authentication of Salvator Mundi to Leonardo, Kemp has been vocal on attributions to Leonardo,
including support of La Bella Principessa and opposition of the Isleworth Mona Lisa.
From 1995 to 2008 he was professor of art history at the University of Oxford and has continued since then as an emeritus professor.
He previously held posts at University of St Andrews (1981–1995) and University of Glasgow (1966–1981).
He holds honorary fellowships of both Trinity College, Oxford and Downing College, Cambridge and is also a fellow of the British Academy.
Professor Kemp's personal website: https://martinjkemp.com/
Dr Ruth Richardson
Dr Ruth Richardson is an interdisciplinary historian, Writer in Residence at the Gordon Museum of Pathology at Guy’s and a Past President of the Dickens Society. For several years, Dr Richardson was Visiting Professor in Humanities & Medicine at Hong Kong University and an Affiliated Scholar in the History & Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge, UK. She is the author of Death, Dissection & the Destitute (Chicago University Press, 2000); Vintage Papers from The Lancet (Elsevier 2006); The Making of Mr Gray's Anatomy (Oxford University Press, 2008) and Dickens & the Workhouse (Oxford University Press 2012). She is the co-editor two books on Medical Humanities published by the Royal College of Physicians of London, and has published numerous papers in a wide range of journals, including The Lancet, the British Medical Journal, Dickens Quarterly, and the Notes & Records of the Royal Society.
Brian Hurwitz
Brian Hurwitz trained in medicine and worked in London as a GP for 30 years. In 2002, he became Professor of Medicine and the Arts at King’s College London where he co-directed the Centre for the Humanities and Health, a multidisciplinary research centre offering masters, PhD and postdoctoral education for humanities scholars, bio-scientists and health professionals. He has published in humanities, medical and interdisciplinary journals and has held honorary chairs in the Universities of Sydney, Hong Kong and the Institute of Neurology, UCL. Prior to moving to King’s, he was Professor of Primary Care and General Practice at Imperial College London.
Auriole Prince
BA MMAA
Auriole runs Future Face AI a face changing technology company that creates hyper personalised experiences of how one can look in the future with lifestyle factors. Recent advances in AI technology are bringing new opportunities for everyone, but can also amplify bias in society.
Auriole originally studied illustration and worked as a forensic artist ageing long term missing persons. She’s been a member of the MAA of GB for 30 years.
In 2023, Auriole won an Innovate UK Inclusive Innovation Award and invested the grant in developing a diverse database of over 140k faces and new AI face changing technology which helps businesses to improve the health and wellbeing of their audiences.
Tom Turmezei
“Professor Tom Turmezei is a consultant radiologist in Norwich and Honorary Professor at the University of East Anglia. He has promoted the role of clinical imaging in anatomy education for over 15 years, working with anatomists across the UK to bring cutting edge digital imaging to the dissection room. Whilst working on his PhD in imaging analysis at the Cambridge University Engineering Department in the first half of the 2010s, several projects started that would shape the next decade of his academic work. Among many roles, this has involved becoming an international leader in osteoarthritis imaging, Röntgen Professor at the Royal College of Radiologists, Imaging Editor for Gray’s Anatomy, a member of the Coffin Analysis Team at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK, and a Medical Associate Member of the Medical Artists Association, UK. Tom has won several prizes for his academic textbooks and research achievements and has collaborated worldwide across many of his projects, most recently pushing the capabilities of Cinematic Anatomy with SIEMENS Healthineers for the next edition of Gray’s Anatomy due in 2025.”
Vivian Nutton
Vivian Nutton is Emeritus Professor at the UCL Centre for the History of Medicine and current President of the Centre for the Study of Medicine and the Body in the Renaissance (CSMBR). He has written extensively on Galen (129-216 C.E.) and the Galenic tradition, and has also written more generally on medicine in classical antiquity. His recent work has centred on the Renaissance anatomist, Andreas Vesalius.
Pascal Coppens
Pascal is a leading China expert, rooted in his deep understanding of the culture and country as a sinologist and tech entrepreneur in China since 1999. He is a thought-provoking speaker and author on innovation, leadership & trends - with a unique China lens - as well as the impact of China on business, technology and world affairs.
Pascal is the author of ‘China’s New Normal’ and ‘Can We Trust China?’. Both widely acclaimed books provide rare insights and valuable lessons into China’s innovation, future, and its potential impact on the rest of the world. Through his YouTube channel and monthly newsletter on Chinese innovation, he engages with a community of over 80,000 subscribers.
[optional: Pascal has employed, partnered and competed with hundreds of Chinese innovators. Armed with a degree in Business Engineering from Solvay Business School he started his career with Alcatel in Shanghai, and – after an fascinating period in Silicon Valley at Wind River Systems and Polycore Software (which he co- founded) – he returned to China and founded Letsface to build the first offline digital community platform for premium brands]
Pascal has lived and worked in Brussels, San Francisco and Shanghai, giving him a unique East-West view on how to read and deal with China – a country in transition. His China perspective and examples inspire business audiences all over the world to think differently, to become more resilient, to collaborate better and innovate faster, and ultimately, to accept that the future is now very often “made in China”. Pascal now lives in Ghent, Belgium with his wife and daughter.
Philip Ball
With over 30 years professional practice in medical illustration and graphic design our in-house designer, Philip Ball brings a wealth of experience in the production of high quality illustration for publication and presentation.
Based in the Clinical School on the Addenbrooke’s Campus since 1989 and having spent a further 10 years managing the University’s Photography and Illustration Service, Philip is now based in University Information Services at the Roger Needham Building on the West Cambridge site.
Philip is available for consultation and production of presentation infographics, diagrams and highly detailed illustration material for international press and publication.
Claudia Pama
Claudia Pama is a neuroscientist and science communicator currently training to become a medical doctor in London. After a journey through Psychology (BSc, Utrecht University, The Netherlands), Cognitive Neuroscience (MSc, Leiden University, The Netherlands) and Biotechnology (MRes, Cambridge University, UK) she completed her PhD at Cambridge University at the Stem Cell Institute, focusing on Myelin development and plasticity in cognition. She then worked as a postdoctoral research fellow in the field of neuroinflammation (Cambridge University) and thoracic surgery (Royal Papworth Hospital), preceding her medical training. Claudia’s dedication to education and outreach extends beyond her research, as she continues to educate through her teaching and as the Director of PamaVision Ltd, where she fuses science and art, transforming complex scientific concepts into accessible visual narratives.
Arthur I. Miller
Arthur I. Miller is Emeritus Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science at University College London. His critically acclaimed books include the Pulitzer Prize-nominated Einstein, Picasso: Space, Time, and the Beauty that Causes Havoc; Empire of the Stars: Friendship, Obsession and Betrayal in the Quest for Black Holes; 137: Jung, Pauli, and the Pursuit of a Scientific Obsession; Insights of Genius: Imagery and Creativity in Science and Art; and Colliding Worlds: How Cutting-Edge Science is Redefining Contemporary Art. A regular broadcaster and lecturer, he has judged art competitions, curated exhibitions on the interface between art and science and writes for The Guardian, The New York Times, Scientific American, Wired and Nautilus. His most recent book, The Artist in the Machine: The World of AI-Powered Creativity, explores AI and creativity in art, literature and music. His recent play, Synchronicity, recreates the intriguing relationship between the analyst Carl Jung and the brilliant but troubled young physicist Wolfgang Pauli. It had sell-out readings in NY and will be produced 19 November to 30 November 2024 at the White Bear Theatre, London.