Photo: Richard Davies
The Artist: Lyndall Phelps
Lyndall Phelps is an installation artist whose work is often site/context specific and strongly process based, relying on research and collaboration with a range of individuals and organisations, whose interest reflect her own. She is drawn to an eclectic mix of subjects including history, flora, fauna, the military, flight horticulture and architecture. Even though many of these are strongly embedded in the scientific, she aims to uncover the highly personal and emotive within their academic framework.
Recent solo exhibitions include Softkill at University of Hertfordshire Galleries; Touch at Leamington Spa Art Gallery and Museum; The Pigeon Archive at Milton Keynes Gallery and knit one purl one at One Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London. She has created public art commissions for Arts Co, London; the Elliott Chappell Health Centre, Hull; King's Lynn, Norfolk; the Great Eastern Hotel, London; the University of Hertfordshire and the Wilberforce Heath Centre, Hull.
Website: http://www.lyndallphelps.com/
The Physicist: Dr. Ben Still
Ben
is a research associate at Queen Mary, University of London working on the
international T2K experiment. He is interested in taking nature apart and
stripping it down to its indivisible components, the fundamental particles, to
figure out how our Universe today was created and what it is made from. He was
awarded the IOP Physics Communications Group's 2012 Physics Communicators Award
and the IOP's High Energy Particle Physics Group's 2012 Science in Society
Award. These outreach prizes were for a wide range for projects engaging a wide
range of audience; from school students with LEGO Physics through to adults and
art enthusiasts with Jiggling Atoms and Super-K Sonic Booooum! As part of the
T2K experiment on which he works, he has a management role in the experiment's
computing and data distribution, while also using various statistical
techniques to develop new analysis methods for squeezing more physics out of
the experiment's data.
Website:http://www.benstill.com/
