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New collaborations for Living Data contributors are facilitated through the innovative Ku-ring-gai Ph art-science project,led by artist/curator Susan Milne and curator Katherine Roberts. Ten scientists and ten artists come together to expand understanding and inspire care of Australia's iconic Ku-ring-gai National Park.

William Gladstone and Lisa Roberts present
Eramboo Artist Community, Ku-ring-gai. 7 May 2016

University of Technology Sydney Science communicator Marea Martlew reports Art+Science: a melding of methodology, passion and creativity:

Ocean Bliss Image from installation (in progress) by William Gladstone and Lisa Roberts.

A unique project that began as an opportunity for artists and scientists to work together is already surpassing expectations according to UTS Science participants Professor William Gladstone and Dr Lisa Roberts.

The project, Ku-ring-gai pH: Art + Science, pairs artists and scientists to collaborate creatively to develop new artworks responding to the natural environment, cultural heritage and scientific values of Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park (KCNP). The artworks will be accessible to the public in an exhibition at Manly Art Gallery Museum from December 2016.

Gladstone, a marine biologist with a passion for photography, and Roberts a visual artist, and Visiting Fellow in UTS Science, share a love of the beauty of the natural world and are dedicated to its conservation. Both were keen to experience how their different training, and interactions during the collaboration, would impact on their responses to the same KCNP environment. The outcomes are taking the pair on a surprising journey. "We have just completed our first work for the exhibition and already it's been selected for installation at the prestigious Sur Polar (Antarctic Arts) Video Exhibition at Complutense University of Madrid," Gladstone, Head of the School of Life Sciences says.

The video "Oceanic Bliss" celebrates the diversity in life and our connectedness to the ocean.

Roberts, who also leads the Living Data program believes that this is a perfect demonstration of how scientists who are also artists can "expand the reach of their knowledge in novel, innovative and unexpected ways."

Closer to home they have been invited to participate in the Vivid Ideas program hosted by The Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences. The ArtScience Soiree: Collaboration across Disciplines will celebrate the passion, methodology and creativity shared by the two disciplines with the aim of facilitating new relationships between them.

With just over six months until the Manly Art Gallery exhibition and with busy, diverse professional lives, Gladstone and Roberts are appreciative of the opportunity to explore both the creative process and the time and space to better understand the differing aspects of their natures.

Further details:Ku-ring-gai pH: Art + Science - A wide range of areas of scientific study will be represented in the project and the outcomes with collaborating artists will include installation, film, drawing, painting, sound and sculpture.

Exhibition: 9 December 2016 - 19 February 2017 at the Manly Art Gallery Museum, West Esplanade Reserve, Manly.

Sur Polar (Antarctic Arts) Video Exhibition - Sur Polar has come to Madrid to take part in the activities of the Antarctic Week organized by the Complutense University. 10 - 20 May 2016.

ArtScience Soiree: Collaboration across Disciplines - As part of Vivid Ideas, the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences (MAAS) will be hosting the ArtScience Soiree - a free networking event for practicing artists and scientists interested in cross-disciplinary collaboration.

Exhibition: 9 June 2016, 6.30 - 9.30pm.