Rhian Thoms

part of ‘Spread’, a series of work made for my BA Ceramics degree show. These pieces are inspired by bacteria cultivated in Petri dishes. 

earthenware slip cast ceramic and lead-based vanadium glazes

likeafieldmouse:

Denisse Garcia - Fragile (2010)

archiemcphee:

Zachary Copfer is “a microbiologist masquerading as an artist” and further proof that Science + Art = Awesome.

He calls his unique and utterly awesome artform “Bacteriography,” which is pretty much exactly what it sounds like: photographic images using bacteria grown in petri dishes:

“During my graduate research I invented a new medium that combines photographic process with microbiological practices. The process is very similar to darkroom photography only the enlarger has been replaced by a radiation source and instead of photographic paper this process uses a petri dish coated with a living bacterial emulsion.”

Here you see portraits that Zachary created for his My Favorite Scientist Series: Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, and Charles Darwin.

Visit Zachary’s blog, Science to the Power of Art, to check out more of his amazing bacteriographic images.

[via Neatorama]

likeafieldmouse:

NIcholas Alan Cope & Dustin Edward Arnold - Aether (2012)

Layering incised forms