Science Gallery London: A year in pictures
As we approach the end of 2016, the Science Gallery London team take a nostalgic look back at just some of the year's highlights.
JANUARY
2016 started with a happy meal! Still in the throes of foodie season FED UP: THE FUTURE OF FOOD, the team enjoyed a last burger in McDonalds at Boland House, and celebrated the forthcoming reincarnation of the UK’s first hospital fast-food joint into Science Gallery London.
FEBRUARY
Adventuring further into the future of burgers, we partnered with Abigail Glencross, the UK’s only Cellular Agriculturist, to explore lab-grown meat. Over five weeks we followed Abi’s work in the lab through Instagram updates – here she is with her fridge of ‘medium’, or cell food.
MARCH
FED UP ended with a bang! The Edible Sound commission by artist and composer Matthew Herbert invited audiences to consider the foods we consume everyday through a new perspective, ‘taste the difference’ between records made of different brands of processed ham, and get down to “ravey” sounding records made of aubergine.
APRIL
Spring sprung, and looking to the future we spat to seal the deal on the Science Gallery London building project at the ‘breaking ground’ ceremony. Artist Ines Camara Leret collected our spit to be turned into a Spit Crystal that would form part of the next season MOUTHY: INTO THE ORIFICE.
MAY
Before MOUTHY could begin, we needed a visual identity for the season. We were fortunate to work with 15 brilliant final year students from Camberwell College of Arts UAL, to develop proposals to our design brief: an image that embodied the idea of ‘looking inside’ the mouth. Finally we commissioned Charlotte Rose Emerson, we couldn’t resist her colourful and cartoony fimo mouths with architectural figures perched ready to journey into the orifice. She blogged about it!
JUNE
With MOUTHY gearing up, Lizzie Crouch joined the team as the season producer. Here she is going head-to-head with a rhino on #internationalmuseumsday at King's College London's Department for Craniofacial Development.
JULY
Artists, researchers, students and locals all came together in 'The Orifice' to help us celebrate the official start of MOUTHY. The team rolled up their sleeves to transform a disused railway arch into a giant mouth. Here guests are proudly comparing tongues in front of Beatrice Haines' Terminal Sulcus.
AUGUST
Marking an exciting step in the building project, our striking hoardings went up around the Science Gallery London construction site at the foot of The Shard. The 'street gallery' on the hoardings gave passers-by a flavour of the MOUTHY season. The hoardings will be up during 2017 so you can continue to keep your eye on us @scigallerylon.
SEPTEMBER
Open wide! Our pop-up MOUTHY venue 'The Oral Emporium', a former Guy's Campus bookshop, opened its jaws to the public. Until our gallery space in Boland House opens in 2018, Science Gallery London will continue to pop up in surprising locations around London Bridge.
OCTOBER
MOUTHY, now in full swing, was spreading out all over London Bridge. Here we see Borough Market lunchers experiencing being eaten themselves at The Afterbite and commuters against the backdrop of Effie Paleologou's Microcosms.
NOVEMBER
Vice Junior Editor, Hannah Ewens was one of the lucky few participants at our 'conversation-starter' Fellatio Modification Project workshop, to create a personalised retainer to enhance oral sex, with dentist and artist Kuang-Yi Ku. She blogged about it!
DECEMBER
As the year drew to a close we launched the open call for our next season BLOOD. Deadline for proposals is 8 January 2017. Check out our moodboard for bloody inspiration on Pinterest. Hope you aren't squeamish! Can't wait to see what surprises #BLOOD17 will bring to London Bridge (and Melbourne).
December 20, 2016