A major exhibition of work from leading contemporary artists will this weekend go on display at Scotland’s first dedicated art-science gallery.
Located within Dundee University’s new £26 million research centre, Scales of Life is the inaugural exhibition in the centre’s LifeSpace.
The gallery will host up to four major exhibitions each year, showcasing the best in collaborations between artists and scientists.
Featuring new and existing art works by Thomson and Craighead, Elaine Shemilt, Tabitha Moses and Helen Chadwick, alongside artefacts from the university’s collections, the exhibition shows how visual artists have represented the fundamental scales of life from molecules to organelles to cells to tissue.
Curator Sarah Cook said: “Artists play a vital role in engaging with the issues of our time, whether those are political, economic, cultural or scientific.
“We have seen an increasing number of exciting collaborations and residencies taking place in recent years where artists are not just making science ‘pretty’ but are complicating our understanding of how science works.
“As such we are delighted to be hosting the first gallery in Scotland dedicated to the critical edges of the interface between art and science.”
Scales of Life runs until January 11 next year with artists’ talks and a curator’s tour on November 4 and 8 at 3pm.
LifeSpace is open on Saturdays from 11am to 5pm, and otherwise by appointment only. It is accessed from the side entrance to the College of Life Sciences at the top of Old Hawkhill Road.
More information is available at www.lifespace.dundee.ac.uk.