Blacklock, Mark (2023) A manifold dwelling: how Gemma Anderson-Tempini built a higher spatial home. Artangel. Read here
Mark Blacklock is a novelist, journalist, editor, publisher and academic. His writing is regularly published in The Guardian & The Times.
Download PDFThis open access book concludes the AHRC funded project ‘Representing Biology as Process’ at the University of Exeter (2017-2021).
Anderson, G. and Dupré, J., (Eds) 2023, Drawing Processes of Life, Intellect Press, OPEN ACCESS
Contributors:
Gemma Anderson, John Dupré, James Wakefield, Jonathan Phillips, Chiara Ambrosio, Alessio Corti, Heather Barnett, Wahida Khandker, Janina Wellmann, Sarah Gilbert, Scott F. Gilbert, Katharina Lee Chichester, Johannes Jaeger, Berta Verd
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Anderson, G. 2017 ‘Drawing as a Way of Knowing in Art and Science’, Intellect Press.
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In recent history, the arts and sciences have often been considered opposing fields of study, but a growing trend in drawing research is beginning to bridge this divide. Gemma Anderson’s Drawing as a Way of Knowing in Art and Science introduces tested ways in which drawing as a research practice can enhance morphological insight, specifically within the natural sciences, mathematics, and art.
Inspired and informed by collaboration with contemporary scientists and Goethe’s studies of morphology, as well as the work of artist Paul Klee, this book presents drawing as a means of developing and disseminating knowledge, and of understanding and engaging with the diversity of natural and theoretical forms, such as animal, vegetable, mineral, and four dimensional shapes. Anderson shows that drawing can offer a means of scientific discovery and can be integral to the creation of new knowledge in science as well as in the arts.
Contributors; Gemma Anderson-Tempini, Mark Blacklock, Mariam Zulfiqar
Gemma Anderson, Wellcome Trust Arts Award 2010
Pdf Contents:
Foreword Gemma Anderson
Introduction Tim McInerny (FRCPsych, Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist at River House Medium Secure Unit, Bethlem Royal Hospital; previously Consultant at Broadmoor Hospital; Clinical Tutor at the Institute of Psychiatry; Visiting Psychiatrist to the Falkland Islands since 1998)
Of this Time and of this Place: Gemma Anderson’s Portraits of Patients and Psychiatrists William Schupbach (Librarian at the Wellcome Library, London, specialising in iconography – photographs, paintings, prints and drawings; published on Dutch and Flemish paintings of patients, doctors, alchemists and surgeons, and a monograph on Rembrandt’s The Anatomy of Dr Nicolaes Tulp)
What’s in a Name? Portraits of the Inner World Ludmilla Jordanova (Professor of Art History, King’s College London)
Nature’s Ampersand Stephen Brown (Playwright)
Drawing out the Self: the Importance of Narrative in Gemma Anderson’s Portraits Emma Lilley
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Book chapter in Pattern and Chaos: Making and Meaning, Intellect Press, Bristol.
2023.
Abstract:
Artist researcher Anderson shares a series of drawings developed through the experimental interdisciplinary project ‘Representing Biology as Process’. In this project Anderson and collaborators have developed a new approach to depict natural history through “relational process drawing”. With focus on the dynamic patterns of the processes of life and guided by principles of choreography, they draw together relationships between energy, time, movement, and environment at the molecular, cellular, and organismal scale. The drawings discussed are a kind of hybrid representation – composed to varying degrees of visual, numerical and linguistic expressions – that both provide new insights and generate new questions for future research.
Read the article ‘Dynamic Form: Klee as Artist and Morphologist’ by Gemma Anderson via open access here
Abstract:
Guided by the themes of formation and growth in the artist Paul Klee’s work, which resonate with those of my own practice, this essay has developed in parallel with my own progression from an empirical understanding of form as object towards a conceptual understanding of form as process. Here, I advance an original outline of the relationship between Goethe’s concept of morphology and Klee’s art. Central to this is the atypical consideration of certain works by Klee as morphological studies. Following Goethe’s concept of morphology as the study of form and formative process, I interpret Klee’s artistic representation of the dynamic nature of form and, based on particular examples, propose Klee as a morphologist.
Read Sophia Efstathiou’s interview with Gemma Anderson – ‘Artistic research: A field where art, science and philosophy meet?’ in the Philosophy of Science in Practice Newsletter here
Read the article ‘Drawing Knowledge’ here
on the European Molecular Biology Lab’s Newsletter
Article Abstract
Representing the dynamic nature of biological processes is a challenge. This article describes a collaborative project in which the authors – a philosopher of biology, an artist and a cell biologist – explore how best to represent the entire process of cell division in one connected image. This involved a series of group Drawing Labs, one-to-one sessions, and discussions between the authors. The drawings generated during the collaboration were then reviewed by four experts in cell division. We propose that such an approach has value, both in communicating the dynamic nature of biological processes and in generating new insights and hypotheses that can be tested by artists and scientists.
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11/02/19
Anderson, G., Verd, B., Jaeger, J. 2019 ‘Drawing to Extend Waddington’s Epigenetic Landscape’, Leonardo, MIT Press.
Gemma Anderson (Artist), Berta Verd (Mathematician), Johannes Jaeger (Biologist)
Abstract
We describe a collaboration between an artist, a mathematician, and a biologist, which examines the potential of drawing for understanding biological process. As a case study, it considers C. H. Waddington’s powerful visual representation of the “epigenetic landscape,” whose purpose it is to unify research in genetics, embryology, and evolutionary biology. We explore the strengths, but also the limitations of Waddington’s landscape and attempt to transcend the latter through a collaborative series of exploratory images. Through careful description of this drawing process, we touch on the epistemological consequences it had on all participants, artist and scientist alike.
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19/03/19
Gemma Anderson (University of Exeter) and Janina Wellmann (MECS, Leuphana University Lüneburg)
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The Node is run by the journal Development and its publisher, The Company of Biologists.
Review for ‘Drawing, Research, Theory, Practice’ Journal, Intellect Press
Barbara Tversky is a cognitive psychologist who has done research in memory, categorization, spatial thinking and language, event perception and cognition, visual–spatial communication, gesture, creativity, art, and design. She has enjoyed collaborations with linguists, neuroscientists, philosophers, computer scientists, domain scientists, artists, musicians and designers. Currently, she is professor of psychology at Columbia Teachers College and professor of psychology emerita at Stanford University. She was educated at the University of Michigan and previously taught at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She has served on numerous editorial boards, governing boards and programme committees, won awards for teaching and software, and is a fellow of the Cognitive Science Society, the Association for Psychological Science, the Society for Experimental Psychology, and the American Association of Arts and Sciences. She is President-Elect of the Association for Psychological Science.
Read her review of Drawing as a Way of Knowing in Art and Science here
Andrew S. Yang is an artist, scientist, and educator based in Chicago. He is Associate Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and research associate and the Field Museum of Natural History. Read his review of Drawing as a Way of Knowing in Art and Science here
For more info about Andrew’s work: www.andrewyang.net
Drawing in Mathematics: From Inverse Vision to the Liberation of Form
Anderson, G., Buck, D., Coates, T. and Corti, A. 2015 ‘Drawing in Mathematics: From Inverse Vision to the Liberation of Form’, Leonardo, 48 (5), pp. 439-448.
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Drawing Resemblance: Mineral Nicknames and Isomorphology
Anderson, G. 2016 ‘Drawing Resemblance: Mineral Nicknames and Isomorphology’, Architectural Theory Review, 20(30) 336-349.
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Endangered: A Study of Morphological Drawing in Zoological Taxonomy
Anderson, G. 2014 ‘Endangered: A Study of Morphological Drawing in Zoological Taxonomy’ Leonardo, 47(3), pp. 232–240.
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Anderson, G. and Corti, A. 2015 ‘Notes from an Artistic Collaboration’, in Emmer,M. and Abate, M. (eds.) Imagine Maths 4. Unione Matematica Italiana; pp.72-82.
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Anderson, G. 2016 ‘ISOMORPHOLOGY: An Introduction to Principles and Practice’, Journal of Zoology Blog, 20 April 2016.
Anderson, G. 2016 ‘Take drawing seriously as mode of enquiry’, British Council, Voices Magazine, 19 February 2016.
Anderson, G. 2016 ‘Drawing as a way of knowing’, Interalia Magazine, Drawing Thoughts, 20/21, January 2016. Invited contribution to Interalia – a magazine dedicated to the interactions between the arts, sciences and consciousness.
Dupré, J. 2015 ‘A process ontology for biology’, Physiology News, 100, Autumn 2015, 32-34. Cover artwork from the Isomorphogenesis series.
Hernly, K. 2015, Drawing the real and the unknown: A look at a project by Gemma Anderson’, Drawing Research Theory and Practice Journal, Intellect Press.
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Anderson, G., Buck, D., Coates, T. and Corti, A. 2014 ‘Drawing in Mathematics: Geometry, Reasoning and Form’, TRACEY, (Online Journal: http://www.lboro.ac.uk/microsites/sota/tracey/journal/thin/2014/anderson.html
Anderson, G. 2013 ‘Isomorphology: Drawing Research and Methodology’, Proceedings of the Drawing Research Network 2013 Conference / Thinking Through Drawing Seminar, Teachers College – Columbia University + The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Zinecker, J. and Anderson, G. 2013 ‘Conversation between Johanna Zinecker and Gemma Anderson’, in Gemma Anderson: Isomorphology, London: Ebb and Flow 2013: 44-51.
Ambrosio, C. 2013 ‘Isomorphology – an introduction’, in Gemma Anderson: Isomorphology, London: Ebb and Flow 2013: 6-9.
New Book out now: Coral: Something Rich and Strange
Available from Liverpool Press, www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk
Gemma Anderson, Published by Ebb and Flow Gallery, London 2013
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Gemma Anderson, Published by Super/Collider, London 2013
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Download PDFAnderson, G. ‘An investigation into drawing in the Life Sciences’ 2010. Jerwood Visual Arts, London.
Publication based on a year long investigation as Jerwood Artist in Residence at London institutions: UCL, Kew, NHM and the Royal Society into the current role and value of drawing within the life sciences.
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