International Print Biennale 2014

Solve et Coagula are to be shown at the International Print Biennale 2014 and have been short listed for the Printmaking Today Prize.
Exhibition runs 27th June - 9th August at The Hatton Gallery, King's Road, Newcastle Upon Tyne
http://www.internationalprintbiennale.org.uk/artists/emma-hunter.html

Sketches for Moulded River Series

Moulded River is the working title for the next series of work for the Stream Project. The German Romantic poet Novalis wrote, "There is no doubt that our body is a moulded river", and it is from this idea that the series takes its name. The work will be a series of vertical hanging scrolls on architectural mylar film and will make visual parallels between the flow form patterns created by my own flow experiments using mica dust, and the flow form patterns found in the bloodstreams of the heart, using stills from Dr Kilner's film. The film, Bloodstreams of the Heart, is produced using data from a non-invasive medical imaging technique called magnetic resonance velocity mapping.

Experiments in creating a Kármán vortex street

A Kármán vortex street is a repeating pattern of swirling vortices caused by water flow being obstructed by an object, in this case I dragged a pencil through a tray of liquid that was a mixture of water, black ink and mica dust. The mica dust allows the reflection of light throughout the body of water and so makes visible the flowform patterns.

 

 

Fluid Thinking at Imperial College Fringe Event

In December Emma Hunter and Dr Philip Kilner were invited to participate in "Fluid Thinking" a fringe event open to the public at Imperial College. They showed Philip's Bloodstreams of the Heart film, demonstrated suminagashi techniques which make visible water flowform patterns and they demonstrated water flow form patterns in a substance with the same consistency as blood using glycerine ink and mica dust.

 

 

  It was attended by approximately 500 people including, students, academics, families and passers-by. Visitors to the Stream stand were given the chance to create a suminagashi print of their own to take away. Almost 200 prints were created that evening! 

Workshop at Royal Brompton Hospital

In December cardiac patients and clinicians at The Royal Brompton Hospital took part in a half day practical workshop which introduced participants to the Stream project and gave them a chance to learn techniques used by artist Emma Hunter. Participants made suminagashi prints, explored meditative drawing techniques and created their own cyanotypes to take away with them.

 

 

The workshop received great feedback:

"Beautiful and inspiring"
"Fascinating technique with lovely results"
"Helped me to remember I am a creative person"
"Relaxing and life-enhancing"

Emma Hunter creates 'suminagashi' at a workshop for Emerson College

Stream at Imperial College, London, Fringe Event - Come Along!

·    Some of the activities on offer...
  

Knit a blood vessel and create a flowing installation while speaking to researchers from the NHLI about the vascular system at Blood Lines.

Get bubbly with the Froth Flotation Group as they show how flowing foams are used in mineral extraction. With Dr Gareth Morris, Earth Science and Engineering.

A dirty snowball, or the origin of life?  Dr Marina Galand, Physics creates a smoking comet and looks at the role of ice in space.

Investigate water flow and its relationship with the interior of our bodies at Stream with MRI specialist Dr Philip Kilner and artist Emma Hunter, using inks, mica dust, water jars, and traditional Japanese marbling technique Suminagashi.

Marvel at fish teeth and oceanic corals with Dr Claire Huck and Dr David Wilson, Earth Science and Engineering, as they explore the Earth's climate in the past and the future.

Get underneath the Earth’s skin and look at bubbles in magma, and what happens when rocks liquefy with Matt Loader,  Earth Science and Engineering.

Shake some turbulence into specially concocted snow globes and see how polymers and viscosity affect flow with Dr Oliver Buxton, Aeronautics.

Help sample what happens when drinking water treatments coagulate with Dr Thomas Bond, Civil and Environmental Engineering.

Take a flight in our Flight Simulator facility with Dr Errikos Levis, Aeronautics, and try your hand at harnessing the fluid properties of air.

Decorate the Christmas tree with Steve Ramsay, scientific glassblowing designer, as he makes glass baubles before your very eyes and explains the mysterious properties of glass.

What happens when mistletoe and holly meet liquid nitrogen?  The properties of liquids get put to the test with supercooling, non-Newtonian fluids and more, with Marc Coury, Leon Vanstone and Laura Childs, Imperial’s daring student demonstrators.

Explore the chemistry of cocktails, and even try one or two with Dr Suze Kundu, alumnus, Materials Chemist and Science Communicator.

Let Alumnus Chris Clarke show-off some of the strange properties of spherification.