Artists Caitlin & Misha create artworks that play with culturally relevant, yet sometimes utopic examples of sharing communities, livable ecologies, and the transmutation of waste.
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Congratulations to BLOOD: Life Uncut contributors, Professor Carmine Pariante and Dr Lynn Lu! Carmine and Lynn have recently been crowned the winners of the Art in Neuroscience competition, with their installation and participatory performance, For of all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, “it might have been”…
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We may have just announced the details of the first season in our new home, but we're already on the look out for artworks and events for our 4th season in the new Gallery!
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Earlier this year, we put out a call to 15-25 year olds who live, work or study in our local boroughs of Southwark and Lambeth to become an integral part of what Science Gallery London does and how it does it by becoming part of our Young Leaders programme…
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As part of a global network of galleries, it’s part of our reality that climate change is happening, FAST. Science Gallery Venice will open in 2020 with a focus on climate change and sustainability, against the backdrop of a city which is predicted to vanish underwater within the next century.
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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.
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Here at Science Gallery London we've been making small actions to grow as a sustainable organisation…
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With 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.
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As 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.
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Dr 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.
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We 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.
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In 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.
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Our 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?
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The 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.
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Chantelle 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.
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It 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…
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The Leonardo group are a group of future thinkers who advise Science Gallery London…
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We 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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From student mediators to curatorial advisors, our seasons simply could not happen without input from staff and students at King's College London. Our new film ‘Engaging with Science Gallery London’ explores the impact of our creative collisions on the staff and students who get involved. Something Louise Weiss, our Public Engagement Manager, explores further in this blog.
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The construction of Science Gallery London has now been underway since April 2016. We thought it was about time we caught up with Head of Project Delivery Tim Henbrey to find out what's been happening...
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