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Art in Science MA Bringing artists & scientists together at Liverpool School of Art & Creative Industries

Bringing together work from the MA Art in Science graduating class of 2026, ‘REFOCUS’ offers a glimpse into their innova...
19/08/2026

Bringing together work from the MA Art in Science graduating class of 2026, ‘REFOCUS’ offers a glimpse into their innovative projects exploring the intersections of art and science.

Orla Linehan-Fox, Heather Grant, Sarah Leader, Aoife Lewis, Elizabeth Longwill and Hannah Peacey, reveal how disciplines can come together to spark new ways of understanding the world. Combining scientific inquiry with artistic expression, their practice-research projects explore anatomical archives and the ethics of display, critical medical humanities, astrophysics and alchemy, botanical conservation, environmental activism, and forensic identification. Each project is a testament to the shared curiosity that drives both art and science.

‘REFOCUS’ is an installation of photographs, artefacts and online portfolios in the Atrium Gallery at Liverpool School of Art and Creative Industries’ John Lennon Art and Design building, open 19-27 August 9.30am-4.30pm (Mon-Fri) and free to all.

Our full time students have been hard at work producing their Major Project outcomes ahead of the final assessment deadl...
15/08/2026

Our full time students have been hard at work producing their Major Project outcomes ahead of the final assessment deadline next week! “The Skeleton in the Closet” by has been a one-year investigation of an authentic human anatomical teaching skeleton (ATS) within the School of Art & Creative Industries at LJMU. With expertise guidance and collaboration in experts from forensic anthropology, collaboration with the Fab Lab, and collation of oral histories, this case study explores the ethical considerations of continued use of ATS’s, including concerns surrounding consent, storage, use, digitisation and care.

These ethical considerations are explored through an artistic lens, using drawing as research method. This has enabled the ability to process a thread of questioning through practical study, provoking critical thinking and reflection through drawing. Addressing and reassessing what might be considered appropriate ‘use’, where consent is not present, focussing more upon the process than the result.

This practice-led research has been collated and presented to senior management to request the donation of the ATS from the School of Art & Creative Industries to a facility in the Forensic Anthropology department for continued stewardship.

Image: Pencil study of human vertebrae - this is a drawing of fake plastic bones to act ethically in the portrayal of human remains where provenance, consent and identity are

Bringing together work from the MA Art in Science graduating class of 2026, ‘REFOCUS’ offers a glimpse into their innova...
15/08/2026

Bringing together work from the MA Art in Science graduating class of 2026, ‘REFOCUS’ offers a glimpse into their innovative projects exploring the intersections of art and science.

Orla Linehan-Fox, Heather Grant, Sarah Leader, Aoife Lewis, Elizabeth Longwill and Hannah Peacey, reveal how disciplines can come together to spark new ways of understanding the world. Combining scientific inquiry with artistic expression, their practice-research projects explore anatomical archives and the ethics of display, critical medical humanities, astrophysics and alchemy, botanical conservation, environmental activism, and forensic identification. Each project is a testament to the shared curiosity that drives both art and science.

‘REFOCUS’ is an installation of photographs and artefacts in the Atrium Gallery at Liverpool School of Art and Creative Industries’ John Lennon Art and Design building, open 19-27 August 9.30am-4.30pm (Mon-Fri) and free to all.

🎉Join us on Tuesday 18th August 5-7pm in the Atrium Gallery to celebrate students having presented their projects for assessment.

Collage for Change Sarah Leader Elizabeth Longwill .madi Orla Fox

Our full time students have been hard at work producing their Major Project outcomes ahead of the final assessment deadl...
12/08/2026

Our full time students have been hard at work producing their Major Project outcomes ahead of the final assessment deadline next week! .madi’s ‘Look But Don’t Touch’ (2026)reimagines endangered plant preservation through artistic hybrid archives, and a sculptural and digital archive of an endangered orchid was exhibited Liverpool School of Art and Creative Industries in August 2026.

The rapid decline of biodiversity has increased the need to consider not only how endangered species are scientifically conserved, but also how they are documented and remembered. While established approaches such as seed banks, cryopreservation, herbarium collections and digital archives play a vital role in protecting biological diversity, they preserve biological information rather than the lived experience or ecological relationships of a species. This raises broader questions about what it means to preserve nature and how threatened species are represented and understood.

Responding to this tension, ‘Look But Don’t Touch’ explores how artistic practice can complement scientific conservation by creating sensory and speculative encounters with endangered species. Rather than replacing scientific methods, the project reimagines the archive as a space where scientific knowledge can exist alongside artistic forms such as sculpture, sound and poetry, offering new ways of engaging with biodiversity and extinction.

Read more and view the digital archive on the project’s website.

Our full time students have been hard at work producing their Major Project outcomes ahead of the final assessment deadl...
12/08/2026

Our full time students have been hard at work producing their Major Project outcomes ahead of the final assessment deadline next week! ‘Collage for Change:
Al is generating... environmental problems’ (2026) is a solo exhibition and zine by Collage for Change currently on display Liverpool School of Art and Creative Industries until the 13th August 2026.

Humans have had a costly impact on the environment, and these anthropogenic effects are often invisible and therefore, easy to ignore. This is why environmental science communication is so important. By creating tools to educate and inspire people, real change can be made to how we treat the environment around us.

The rising growth of artificial intelligence, specifically generative Al, has exacerbated the negative impacts on the environment due to the increased use of datacentres, contributing to increased water and energy usage, and greenhouse gas emissions (UNEP, 2824).

This exhibition aims to communicate the environmental impacts of generative Al through original collages and a science communication zine. The collages visualise the problems caused by generative Al and its datacentres, helping the viewer comprehend the scale of the problem. By combining these collages with simple, informative text, the zine “Al is generating.. environmental problems” acts as a tool to communicate these issues to a wide audience.

Read the zine and find out more information in the project’s website.

environmentalactivism

Our full time students have been hard at work producing their Major Project outcomes ahead of the final assessment deadl...
12/08/2026

Our full time students have been hard at work producing their Major Project outcomes ahead of the final assessment deadline next week! Last month Orla Fox exhibited her sculpture ‘Creation through Destruction — Supernovae: Seeds of Light’ (2026) with an accompanying film and sound work Liverpool School of Art and Creative Industries.

Working with astrophysicists at the Astrophysics Research Institute (ARI), ‘Creation through Destruction’ (2026) is the culmination of a year-long research project by Orla Linehan-Fox on the representation of
astrophysics phenomena, particularly supernova
- a phenomenon that occurs in the final stages of a star’s life. As the star’s mass exceeds its energy output, it collapses in on itself resulting in a cataclysmic explosion that scatters newly formed elements across the cosmos. In essence: fertilising the universe.

Forged in the heart of a supernova, copper is an inherited material of celestial origins, this sculpture embodies our intrinsic connection with the cosmos. Utilising fumage, oxidisation and bashing - transforming the material through destructive means - ‘Creation through Destruction’ embodies the role of Alchemy in conjunction with Astronomical Observation, replicating the cosmos on a comparatively quantum scale through chemistry and physics. Only through replicating the cosmos, we can truly understand it.

Find out more on the project’s website.

Our part time students have been busy working on their Major Projects over this past year. ‘Womb With A View’ by Elizabe...
07/08/2026

Our part time students have been busy working on their Major Projects over this past year. ‘Womb With A View’ by Elizabeth Longwill is a practice-led research project that explores how lived experiences of the womb can be articulated, visualised, and shared through contemporary artistic practice and a critical medical humanities lens. Works have been shown at the Williamson Art Gallery, and at Wirral Open Studios.

The project emerges from Liz’s ongoing research interests into the tension between clinical/scientific representations of the body and personal, lived experience.

The project gathers ‘wombstories’: anonymous
stories and experiences of the womb including but not confined to: pregnancy, fertility, menstruation and menopause. The narratives of ‘Wombstories’ have acted as research material and conceptual drivers for the production of visual artworks.

One of these works includes, ‘First period’, and the piece includes part of a wombstory on a handwritten note. It reads, “There were whispers, someone gave me safety pins to hitch up my blue summer dress”.
Fact: The age for the onset of puberty is declining due to a combination of environmental and lifestyle factors. 1 in 8 girls in the UK will experience their first period in primary school. BMJ 2001:322:1095

Read more on the project’s website.

Our part time students have been busy working on their Major Projects over this past year. ‘A Land Learning to Breathe’ ...
07/08/2026

Our part time students have been busy working on their Major Projects over this past year. ‘A Land Learning to Breathe’ by Alex Shaw responds to the recovery of the post-industrial landscapes. The paths and waterways that lead into the quieter heart of these places are often hidden from view, not unlike the mosses and lichens that call them home. Sometimes you need to slow down and look a little more closely to make these discoveries, but they are there for everyone to enjoy if you take the time to look. These waterways also connect us to the wider landscapes of the Northwest, including peatlands undergoing restoration or ‘at risk’ due to human interference, linking local places to a much broader ecological story.

The moving image work is projected onto a cotton grass and coir geotextile netting. Cotton grass was chosen for its rhizomatic root system, which spreads along the ground, sprouting new plants as it goes. In peatlands, this same system helps stabilise the soil.

The work featured in the exhibition “Wigan’s Voice” that ran throughout July 2026 at Wigan Museum.

Follow the project website for more information.

07/08/2026

⚠️Trigger Warning - this reel contains sensitive content around unidentified lives and conversations around death.

Our part time students have been busy working on their Major Projects over this past year. This reel shows highlights of ‘The Inquiry Room’ exhibition by that took place as part of the Liverpool Independents Biennial 2025.

‘The Inquiry Room’ was an exhibition that examined issues surrounding identifying unidentified deceased human lives listed in online missing persons databases, with a focus on secondary idenifiers such as the possessions found with their remains. Conceptualised, curated and including works by , the exhibition also featured works exploring these themes by

* Dr Maria Maclennan
* Stasia Parker
* Katie Taylor
* Sam Waiting
* Locate International

The exhibition was proposed as a way to sensitively present stories of the unidentified dead, and to act a possible alternative method for inviting members of the p***c into discourse on this topic; to ultimately raise awareness of this phenomena.

Visit the project’s website to learn more.



☎️If you need support with any of the issues raised in this exhibition, please seek professional guidance. Useful contacts include.
Samaritans: www.samaritans.org T:116 123 | Μind: www.mind.org.uk T: 0300 102 1234 Missing People: www.missingpeople.org.uk T116 000 |

We’ve been asking practice-led and practice-based art-science researchers to speak about their research to our final Maj...
05/08/2026

We’ve been asking practice-led and practice-based art-science researchers to speak about their research to our final Major Project students as we think about what art-science research is.

We welcomed back recent graduate Luciana Hermida who spoke about her practice- led research project ‘Re-Imagining Ecosystems’ that investigated how wonder—embracing the unknown as possibility—can become a bridge between humans and nature. Working with Hilbre Island as a site to explore this connection, Luciana developed tools that help to re-think and re-define our place within fragile ecosystems, offering new ways to cope, connect, and create space for life to emerge in uncertain times.

Luciana spent 18 months in a slow residency on Hilbre Islands, a fragile archipelago off the Wirral coast, creating tools, collaborative experiences and an exhibition of practice-research artworks that invited visitors to re-think their place within vulnerable ecosystems. Hilbre is being gradually eroded by sea and wind, having reduced considerably in size in the past 2000 years. Recognised as a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) since 1954, Luciana re-designated Hilbre as a Site of Special Human Interconnectedness (SSHI) in 2025. This new title highlights the entangled connections between people and nature, emphasising our shared responsibility in uncertain times. The works emerging from this residency offer ways to cope, connect, and create space for life to flourish, reframing ecological loss as an invitation to imagine new forms of coexistence.

Read more at www.re-imagining-ecosystems.com

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