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ACCELERATOR: A SPACE WHERE SCIENCE & ART COLLIDE

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Monday, 17 October 2011

There’s something mesmerising about hard science. Even the terms magnetic resonance imaging and microscopy sound mysterious and otherworldly. Artist Melody Lord seems to agree, as she prepares to open her second science-inspired show in as many years. Kingdom of the Blind Exhibition 2, is a series of works that merges the incredible images yielded by magnetic resonance microscopy (think those squiggly colourful pictures of things way too tiny to ever be perceived with the naked eye) and embroidery. The show was produced during Lord’s Residency at Accelerator: When Science and Art Collide (at Culture at Work), in collaboration with the Queensland Brain Institute and Dr Adam Hamlin, and is a breathtaking (and incredibly painstaking) rendering of what remain some of the most intriguing images of our time – our own brains, so close it becomes unrecognisable. From Flowers of Algemon to Paths of Dreams, the detailed embroidered scans are sure to delight and challenge curious minds. The show follows Lord’s successful 2010 show at The Muse Gallery as part of the Ultimo Science Festival.

 

Until Nov 5, ACCELERATOR: When Science and Art COllide, at Culture At Work,6 Scott St Pyrmont

 

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