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As LGBT History Month comes to a close, we wanted to shine the spotlight on the provocative work of New York-based artist and activist Jordan Eagles, who featured in our 2017 BLOOD: Life Uncut season with his work Blood Equality Illuminations, part of Jordan’s ongoing Blood Mirror Project.
Read MoreHere at Science Gallery London we've been making small actions to grow as a sustainable organisation…
Read MoreWith February being LGBT History Month, we thought it was the perfect time to look back through SGL’s short history and showcase some of the amazing work we’ve put on show that is related to the LGBT community.
Read MoreAs we get ready to wash away the remaining stains of BLOOD: Life Uncut we wanted to find out a bit more about the lead image for the season which has been turning heads since day one. Nestor Pestana, artist and graphic designer behind this striking image told us a bit more about who Alex is.
Read MoreDr Alana Harris is a Lecturer in Modern British History at King’s College London. From the 7th to the 13thNovember she will be based in the Haemotel on Collingwood Street, ready to greet visitors to Period Piece, an audio-visual installation which brings to life the internal rhythms often hidden by secrecy and taboo.
Read MoreOur exhibition 'BLOOD: Life Uncut', hailed by New Scientist as "an exhibition that can be read both for its beauty and for its scientific pertinence" is coming to an end.
Read MoreThe sound of BLOOD is coming directly to you through your headphones (and speakers). Our seven part podcast and radio series of BLOOD: Life Uncut is now available to listen to and download on Soundcloud, iTunes and Stitcher.
Read MoreAn exciting opportunity to join the Science Gallery London team. We're looking for a permanent full-time Production Assistant to help deliver our season exhibitions and events.
Read MoreAs Science Gallery Melbourne clean away the traces of blood left in the wake of their ‘Attract and Repel’ exhibition down under, the BLOOD: Life Uncut events programme is being brought to the boil here in London.
Read MoreWe were delighted to work with artist and designer Kirsty Harris to co-create our Blood Bikers performance, part of the BLOOD: Life Uncut season. Here she tells us about the inspiration for the piece and where the bat motif came from.
Read MoreIn August, Science Gallery London teamed up with the Old Operating Theatre to exhibit the work of Helen Pynor and Peter Clancy with the installation The Body is a Big Place. Here Karen Howell, curator at the Old Operating Theatre shares some historical insights around bleeding in medicine.
Read MoreOur new season BLOOD: Life Uncut launched on 27th July with installations in three venues around London Bridge that reveal the essential, expressive and the visceral nature of blood by telling personal and provocative stories of this vital, life-affirming fluid that connects us all.
Read MoreOur forthcoming SPARE PARTS season explores the possibilities of regenerated, enhanced or donated parts that can be altered through choice or destiny. What are the emotional and psychological aspects of living with an organic or engineered spare part? How are they actually created and transplanted? What is their potential to exist outside of the biological body, to be shared and exchanged?
Read MoreThe Whale Weekender was a conservation project organised by the Grant Museum of Zoology at UCL on the 8th and 9th of July. The weekend saw eight hundred volunteers come together to piece together a whale skeleton to see if there were any missing parts.
Read MoreChantelle Pierre is a Sickle Cell Sufferer who writes a blog for the Sickle Cell Society called 'My Invisible Life'. Recently we interviewed Chantelle, and you can hear her share her experiences of the disease in our podcast 'Is Sickle Cell Anaemia a Black disease' on our microsite for the BLOOD season.
Read MoreIt is difficult to replicate the complexity of any body part. Arms, legs, hands, noses, feet, ears and eyes - all are so well suited to their purposes that, if you have lived with any of them your entire life, the subsequent loss is difficult to come to terms with…
Read MoreScience Gallery London is delving into the possibilities of regenerated, enhanced, donated parts that can be altered through choice or destiny. What are the emotional and psychological aspects of living with an organic or engineered spare part? How are they actually created and transplanted? And what is their potential to exist outside of the biological body, to be shared and exchanged?
Read MoreScience Gallery London presents BLOOD: Life Uncut, an exhibition and event series that runs from July - November 2017 that reveals the captivating, visceral power of blood to expose, shock and bring people together.
Read MoreThe Leonardo group are a group of future thinkers who advise Science Gallery London…
Read MoreWe invited Jan Bowden, a lecturer in midwifery at King's College London to contribute to the first in our series of podcasts on BLOOD. Unfortunately she wasn't able to meet us but she sent us this brilliant menstrual 101. He's, she's and they's listen up!
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