CREATIVITY AND CURIOSITY
Creativity and Curiosity is an art-science project co-founded and led by UK-based contemporary artists Ione Parkin and Gillian McFarland. You can read a summary of the project as at August 2022 here.
The project is an interdisciplinary collaboration with astrophysicists, cosmologists and planetary scientists from institutions and universities across the UK and internationally, including the Universities of Leicester, Cardiff, Birmingham, Imperial College London, Edinburgh, Amsterdam, Institute of Astrophysics (Potsdam, Germany) and the Institute of Astronomy (Cambridge). The artists are creating a body of artwork exhibited in the UK and internationally with accompanying public engagement events: talks, panel discussions and creative workshops which invite engagement with both the art and the science.
Lead Artists:
Ione Parkin RWA, Visual Artist, Royal West of England Academician, Honorary Visiting Fellow (School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester)
Gillian McFarland, Visual Artist, Scottish Society of Artists, Art Therapist and Educator
‘Cosmology to Ecology’: full-dome taster show by international art-science project Creativity and Curiosity, part of Space Lates at the National Space Centre, Leicester, 2nd February 2024, 8.30 pm.
If you attend this taster event we’d very much like to hear about your experience, either through our contacts page or by completing and sending us this brief questionnaire. Thank you.
Below is a selection of art work exhibited by the Creativity and Curiosity project at the University of Birmingham in 2022 as part of the Cultural Programme for the Commonwealth Games
