The artist hopes to give a talk entitled “Groundswell” at the TTT 2025 conference. In addition, he would like to bring two or three small works to accompany his talk. His artistic focus will be on the relationship between land, soil, and our ecosystem. Through 2025, he plans to expand his work in this field through the project "The Pond in Us" with Prof. Sian Harding, looking at how our gut microbiome originates in our evolutionary time in 'water', through a series of drawings and sculptures and in a specific work he is making for Groundswell 2025, "The Tree Beneath Our Feet", a work linking nutrition, soil, water and sunlight, our need to care for this ecosystem, using the material of tents and marquees.
The pieces can be packed small, are light, and can be transported in a suitcase along with one's normal luggage within the baggage allowance. The proposed pieces include works made from 3D printed PLA, watercolour on paper, and mixed media in acrylic pockets. All the works can be hung flexibly, sited on the wall or floor or even over windows in landscape or portrait orientation. Preferably, any floor or wall space would be neutral in colour. The work might require two electrical sockets for the power needed to operate the small lights that inhabit the work and fans that possibly inflate and deflate the included meteorological balloons, as well as the sensors that trigger the lights and the pattern of inflation.
The work is currently in development and may change to some extent as the projects progress through the year. He continues to create works for Cultivamos Cultura in June, for the Groundswell Festival in late June, and an exhibition in the Anatomy Museum in Riga in August 2025.
Andrew Carnie is an internationally exhibiting contemporary visual artist practising 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, Brain Observatory, RSU Anatomical Museum, Riga, and Spencer Museum, Kansas.
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