Andrew Carnie, submitted artwork
Andrew Carnie
Painting
UK
Andrew Carnie is an internationally exhibiting contemporary visual artist practicing in the UK. His main concerns focus on the interface of art and science, often working in collaboration with scientists, though not exclusively. His approach is media agnostic, using methodologies and media as informed by the context, concepts, and concerns. Drawing, painting, and sculpting have an enduring place in his practice, but video, projection, and installation are his primary strengths. He creates environments that are endlessly fascinating around subjects, like heart transplants, metabolism, and neurological conditions that intrigue him, and engage audiences in how we see ourselves through the world of science. Recent work has been shown at the Fundación Telefónica, Madrid. the CCCB, Barcelona, Centro de Historia de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Brain Observatory, San Diego, Kunsthall Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, the RSU Anatomical Museum, Riga, and Spencer Museum of Art, Kansas, Old Operating Theatre, London, and Portsmouth Museum and Gallery, Portsmouth.
Works
Andrew Carnie, submitted artwork
At the Vane Gallery Newcastle, Crack of Light, was a kinetic work triggered by visitors as they walked through the exhibition ‘Illuminating the Self’, a project based on research on epilepsy Storm to Calm: Rockall, reflects on the nature of epilepsy, being concerned with balance and stability and how this can be interrupted and realigned. . The interventions reflected interest in the application of the technology beyond the project: “optogenetics research using light to control cells in living tissue may have an impact beyond epilepsy and upon us all”.
