Exhibitions
Awards
Arts Council- Arts plus Organisational Development Award 07 with Portsmouth City Council -2006
‘Treasure Island: A Forensic Investigation of a City’
Art/Science Technology
This is a Public Art project that will use science technology to investigate the inherited treasures of the city. Both personal and museum collections of inherited objects- treasures will be the focus for gathering samples, recording personal history and memoirs of the treasure. Using the Confocal laser microscope to analyse and reveal intricate structures of minute samples taken from these treasures, these will be the basis for the Public Art.
The projects community participation through using their own treasures aims to allow accessibility to science by revealing microscopic structures of familiar objects making an invisible world visible, allowing a new insight and view of the world on our doorstep.
This is the 3rd series of a concept developed whilst artist- in- residence working with scientists (Leverhulme Trust Award)
Series 1 ‘My Sitting Room’
Series 2 ‘Forensic investigation of a School’
Leverhulme trust Award – 2001-2002
Artist-in-Residence based in the school of Biological Sciences-University of Southampton
The Leverhulme Trust award enabled research with Scientists. Neuroscience featured as the primary research. This took the form of observing regular presentations and internal research meetings, as well direct observations of technology used for neuroscience and general science purposes.
The Confocal Laser Microscope became a fascination for images that reveal structures of an invisible world both of biological and physical nature. The concepts behind the usage and necessity of this technology also became paramount into ideas in her work.
The investigations into Neuroscience influenced new work in technology, paintings, light sculptures and installations.
The pieces reveal the complex structure of the brain and are put together from research of the concept and a wish to recreate a fascinating moment in the brain, of what is occurring to in order for us to Think, Remember and Do. The work is not totally true to the science but investigates concepts and images produced from their research.
Seran's use of colour interaction and movement has helped science concepts to be experienced which are not visually accessible in this field.
* see paintings- ‘Ode to dendrite-1’ and ‘Kaleidoscope of the Brain’
Southern Arts Award - ‘Oscillations’- Quay Arts Centre - 1996
A group collaboration with writer/poet- Harriet Kline, dancer/choreographer- Eckhard Thiemann and musician -Henley Smith reinterpreting my solo exhibition ‘Champagne supernova’ as a live public performance.
Five poems were written; new sounds and choreography were produced alongside colourist projections.