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What does it mean to “transform your practice” through the Cavendish Arts Science Fellowship?Here’s what previous fellow...
09/05/2026

What does it mean to “transform your practice” through the Cavendish Arts Science Fellowship?

Here’s what previous fellows explored:

🎬 Logan Ryland Dandridge explored the gravity within memory, language, and sound—investigating non-linear time through both Black radical tradition and quantum physics

🔊 Ain Bailey investigated sonic autobiography and architectural acoustics, thinking about how invisible forces shape identity

💃 Robert Ssempijja used movement to explore living with uncertainty—a question central to both decolonial experience and quantum mechanics

✨ Akeelah Bertram brought spirituality and immersive tech into dialogue with physics, exploring collective narratives and digital embodiment

Each fellow brought their own questions and emerged with new approaches they couldn’t have developed anywhere else.

What transformation are you ready for?

Deadline: Saturday 16 May 2026 11am British Summer Time (GMT+1)

ONE WEEK LEFT TO APPLY.Before you submit, ask yourself:✓ Does my portfolio show adventurous, experimental work? ✓ Have I...
09/05/2026

ONE WEEK LEFT TO APPLY.

Before you submit, ask yourself:

✓ Does my portfolio show adventurous, experimental work?
✓ Have I explained my community relationships clearly and honestly?
✓ Did I communicate my openness to new ideas and collaboration?
✓ Have I articulated what I hope will TRANSFORM in my practice?

If yes to all four—you’re ready.

A few final tips:

→ Be specific about why THIS fellowship at THIS moment
→ Show us your thinking process, not just finished work
→ Don’t try to sound “scientific”—use your own language
→ Let your excitement and curiosity come through

We can’t wait to read your application.

Deadline: Saturday 16 May 2026 11am British Summer Time (GMT+1)

We are thrilled to welcome interdisciplinary artist Thulani Rachia [ ] as the next Cavendish Arts Science Fellow at Gir...
11/11/2025

We are thrilled to welcome interdisciplinary artist Thulani Rachia [ ] as the next Cavendish Arts Science Fellow at Girton College, following selection from over 700 artists worldwide who responded to our CAS Fellowship Open Call.

Thulani will be in residence in Cambridge from until September 2026, exchanging ideas with physicists at the Cavendish Laboratory and Fellows across multiple disciplines.

​​”I’m looking forward to how the conversations and encounters within this community will inspire unexpected shifts in my practice and reveal new ways of seeing and working.”
– Thulani Rachia, CAS Fellow 2025/6

Thulani Rachia is a South African artist working across moving image, performance, music composition, and sculpture. His broader inquiry, rooted in his research-based practice Siwaguba kanjani amaphupho ethu agqitjwe kulezindonga? (in his mother tongue isiZulu, ‘How do we excavate the dreams laid to rest in these walls?’), centres on two key processes in his work: critique and recovery—seeking a collective reclamation from the cultural erasure and displacement wrought by colonial ethnocide.

His work has been exhibited at institutions and festivals both nationally and internationally including São Paulo-Arte; Bluecoat, Liverpool; Subsolo Laboratorio de Art São Paulo; Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Art and Edinburgh Art Festival.

“Thulani’s innovative, interdisciplinary approach to his artistic practice – blending film, sculpture, performance, costume, sound and musical composition – aligns perfectly with Girton’s proud history of pushing boundaries. We are excited to welcome him to our community for the next year.”
– The Mistress of Girton College, Dr Elisabeth Kendall

Portrait of Thulani Rachia photo: courtesy of the artist






Cavendish Arts Science Fellow Akeelah Bertram concluded her fellowship year in Cambridge with Sonic Ceremony, an interac...
10/11/2025

Cavendish Arts Science Fellow Akeelah Bertram concluded her fellowship year in Cambridge with Sonic Ceremony, an interactive, immersive soundscape exploring how intuition, or emotional and spiritual resonance, can shape space.

“My research explored the role of resonance within and across relationships, dropping below intellectual relation toward another layer of existence… emotional resonance, spiritual resonance. Even something as simple as feeling someone has entered a room when you can’t see or hear anything. The physics conversations helped me visualise this. For me, much of physics is about getting into another layer, beyond what is immediately visible. I wanted to move deeper into the more indescribable, intangible, harder-to-quantify levels of resonant relationships. Resonance as material, as a plane to stretch, shape, explore, and be subjected to.” — Akeelah Bertram

With huge thanks to Una Ryan for her vision and support of the Cavendish Arts Science Fellowship, to our partners at Girton College, and everyone who supported Akeelah during her fellowship.









Image Sonic Ceremony, Girton College Chapel. Photo Credit: Phil Mynott

Cavendish Arts Science Fellow Akeelah Bertram concluded her fellowship year in Cambridge with Sonic Ceremony, an interac...
10/11/2025

Cavendish Arts Science Fellow Akeelah Bertram concluded her fellowship year in Cambridge with Sonic Ceremony, an interactive, immersive soundscape exploring how intuition, or emotional and spiritual resonance, can shape space.

“My research explored the role of resonance within and across relationships, dropping below intellectual relation toward another layer of existence… emotional resonance, spiritual resonance. Even something as simple as feeling someone has entered a room when you can’t see or hear anything. The physics conversations helped me visualise this. For me, much of physics is about getting into another layer, beyond what is immediately visible. I wanted to move deeper into the more indescribable, intangible, harder-to-quantify levels of resonant relationships. Resonance as material, as a plane to stretch, shape, explore, and be subjected to.” Akeelah Bertram

With huge thanks to Una Ryan for her vision and support of the Cavendish Arts Science Fellowship, to our partners at Girton College, and everyone who supported Akeelah during her fellowship.








Image Sonic Ceremony, Girton College Chapel. Photo Credit: Phil Mynott

📣 1 WEEK LEFT TO APPLY 📣✨ Applications are now open for the Cavendish Arts Science Fellowship 2025-26 are seeking applic...
03/05/2025

📣 1 WEEK LEFT TO APPLY 📣

✨ Applications are now open for the Cavendish Arts Science Fellowship 2025-26

are seeking applications from adventurous, playful and experimental artists from across the globe!

Cavendish Arts Science is an initiative of Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics at the University of Cambridge. The Fellowship is delivered through a partnership between Cavendish Arts Science and Girton College, University of Cambridge, thanks to the vision and support of Una Ryan. ✨

📌 For more information and to apply visit 👉 Link in bio (cavendish-artscience.org.uk/open-call/)

📅 Submission deadline Saturday 10 May 2025, 17:00 British Summer Time (GMT+1)



ADMIN — ITS A DIRTY JOB BUT SOMEBODY’S GOTTA DO IT APPLY BY 17:00 BST SATURDAY 10 MAY 2025The Fellowship provides a spac...
26/04/2025

ADMIN — ITS A DIRTY JOB BUT SOMEBODY’S GOTTA DO IT

APPLY BY 17:00 BST SATURDAY 10 MAY 2025

The Fellowship provides a space for artists and physicists to engage in this process of enquiry together, removing the preconceptions of what is already known, disrupting linear modes of thought, and embracing uncertainty as a generative force. Each Fellow’s engagement has contributed to the evolution of this space, expanding the possibilities for artistic and scientific exploration.

Cavendish Arts Science is an initiative of the Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics at the University of Cambridge. The Fellowship is delivered through a partnership between Cavendish Arts Science and Girton College, University of Cambridge, thanks to the vision and support of Una Ryan. ✨

📌 For more information and to apply visit
👉 Link in bio
(cavendish-artscience.org.uk/open-call/)
📅 Submission deadline Saturday 10 May 2025, 17:00 British Summer Time (GMT+1)






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