Connecting the past to the present, Craske’s practice also bridges the worlds of arts and science often placing the artist as a translator between the two disciplines. Working with the Pharmacy Museum, also based in Basel, Craske is not only engaging with cutting-edge technologies but using the rich historic archives as a treasure trove. One of the synthetic peptides, Craske is working on She is then planning to set up a performative experiment in which her synthetic organism makes contact with cholera, and will be documenting the results. Working within a team that specialises in synthetic biology, she has been designing her own peptides, “playing with the building blocks of life” as she describes, in the hope of creating her own synthetic organism. The artist has secured the Biofaction Residency at the prestigious ETH in Switzerland with funding from the EC-EP7 project SYNPEPTIDE. Her degree show work included the cultures of the bacteria as well as magnified ‘maps’ revealing the microbiology discovered across the pages of the book.Ī year after her graduation, Craske is splitting her time between Manchester and Basel. As objects, do they have other systems of knowledge to offer rather than just the text on the pages? Focusing on the micro, Craske went looking for the biological information hidden in an 18 th century copy of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. With libraries digitising their manuscripts and books enabling global audiences to access them, Craske wondered about the impact on the physical artefact. Her graduating project presented a transdiscipline, a collaboration with scientist Dr Simon Park, and Dr Charlotte Sleigh exploring books as both repositories of written knowledge but also collateral biological information. A graduate of MA Art and Science, her work won last year’s NOVA Award which is presented to one student selected from across all disciplines. Sarah Craske describes herself as “a British artist, without category”.
With this year’s Degree Shows in full swing, and the NOVA Award winners soon to be announced, we catch up with last year’s winner. Staff consultancy and customised training In tribute to BA Fine Art tutor Lynn HewettĬarbon auditing our exhibitions at the Lethaby GalleryĪutomating Violacein: bacterial printed textile collection from Maison/0 Designer in Residence Charlotte Werth Jewellery, Textiles and Materials programme
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