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As well as illustrated articles and interviews, the magazine will include ‘visual’ and ‘sound’ articles.

Elemental Forms

Nadezda Nikolova is a Croatian-Bulgarian-American photographic artist working with wet plate collodion photograms. Her practice is informed by an experimental approach to early photographic processes and her interest in the image as an object. The abstract landscape series, ‘Elemental Forms’, ‘Landscapes and Elemental Forms’, ‘Landscape Rearticulated’, emerged as the artist’s direct response to her surroundings and to feeling a sense of well-being and security within the landscape. She believes that each locale has its specific identity, history, and emotional imprint.

The Honey Bee Collection

Ava Roth is a Toronto-based encaustic painter, embroiderer and mixed-media artist. For the past decade she has worked almost exclusively with beeswax. Combining techniques from both fine art and crafts, she aims to use natural materials and processes to explore the intersection between human beings and the natural world. Her current collection is an inter-species art collaboration between herself and honey-bees.

Planet of Dreams

Cecelia Chapman is a San Francisco-born artist living in Portugal. Her work revolves around video, essay, storytelling, and works on paper and merges the documentary and experimental. ‘Planet of Dreams 2022’, follows a personal dream journey across continent and through time, observing how dream guides us. Planet of Dreams asks ‘in what ways can the dream state guide us?’

Observation Station

Heather Barnett discusses Observation Station, a series of interspecies interventions designed to examine how and why we look at animals, and which animals we choose to observe. The project is part of the Machine Wilderness residency programme in Amsterdam, centred on public fieldwork developing methodologies and prototypes of ‘wilderness machines’ that engage with local environmental complexity.

Rohini Devasher: One Hundred Thousand Suns

Rohini Devasher is an international artist and amateur astronomer based in Delhi, India. Her practice spans film, drawing and printmaking, mapping the ‘antagonism’ of time and space. ‘One Hundred Thousand Suns’ is another kind of rendering of the Sun, assembled from data that is both historical and contemporary. work explores the notion that there may be multiple readings and avatars of data depending on the site, the observer, and the mode and method of observation, collection and preservation.

Time Waves (II)

Artist and writer, Richard Bright, has addressed the relationship between art, science and consciousness for over 40 years. He studied Fine Art and Physics before founding The Interalia Centre in 1990. Since then, he has lectured extensively on art and science and written articles on James Turrell, Andy Goldsworthy and Susan Derges, among others. He has exhibited both nationally and internationally and was the recipient of the ‘Visions of Science’ Award, The Edge, Andrew Brownsward Gallery, University of Bath (Second Prize Winner). Co-author of ‘The Art of Science’ (Welbeck Publishers, 2021).

The week the sun touched the earth

Siobhán McDonald’s practice draws attention to contemporary topics dealing with air, breath and atmospheric phenomena, weaving scientific knowledge into her art in a poetic and thoughtful manner. Siobhán is working with world-leading research facilities such as The European Space Agency (ESA) and The JRC European Commission to explore ecology in light of current ecological concerns. Across research labs, she pursues knowledge to ask questions about the structure and history of the earth. She calls on notions of what is still unknown to science, exploring the Anthropocene and the recent consequences of our treatment of nature. Her work with glaciers and other natural phenomena deploys a unique artistic language that gives form to intangible and richly varied processes including painting, drawing, film and sound.

Brainstorms, Terrains and Mental Mapping

Heidi Whitman’s installations, constructions, paintings, and drawings are invented terrains or mental maps. Her installation, ‘New World’, was included in Wayfinding: Contemporary Artists, Critical Dialogues, and the Sidney R. Knafel Map Collection at the Addison Gallery of American Art in 2020-21. She has exhibited internationally, most recently in ‘The Art of Mapping’ at TAG Fine Arts in London.

FlowDancing

Artist and writer, Richard Bright, has addressed the relationship between art, science and consciousness for over 30 years. He studied Fine Art and Physics before founding The Interalia Centre in 1990. Since then, he has lectured extensively on art and science and written articles on James Turrell, Andy Goldsworthy and Susan Derges, among others. He has exhibited both nationally and internationally and was the recipient of the ‘Visions of Science’ Award, The Edge, Andrew Brownsward Gallery, University of Bath (Second Prize Winner). Co-author of ‘The Art of Science’ (Welbeck Publishers, 2021).

Gabrielle Hoad – The Luminous Envelope: visualising the invisible

The Luminous Envelope is a body of contemporary photographic work developed in response to a historic plaster model of Fresnel’s Wave Surface. Created in the 19th century as a teaching aid, the Fresnel model sought to communicate abstract concepts in tangible form. It is drawn from an equation that describes the double refraction of light in a particular type of crystal. The Luminous Envelope is used as a way of reflecting on this process of transcription (from equation to physical object), and on the gap between the world and our representations of it.