artists thinking about science

Artists Thinking About SCIENCE was an exhibition which toured Australia as part of the Great Australian Science Show in 1994. The exhibition was shown at the Royal Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne, The Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, and The Exhibtion Building Showgrounds, Brisbane. And was supported through Visions of Australia, the Commonwealth's national touring exhibitions grant program.

• Linda DEMENT
• Jan NELSON
• Richard STANFORD
• Kevin TODD
• John TONKIN

The artists in this exhibition do not simply illustrate scientific principles with their work. They are dealing with attitudes and ideas about science, and not necessarily producing images that science may regard as correct or factual. As another curator of a science/art exhibition project noted, (Naomi Cass, What is this thing called science , University of Melbourne Gallery, 1987); "it is not important whether these presentations of the subject are real, true or accurate. It is the reading of artworks as receptors of assumptions, even prejudices concerning science that is of interest." It is also worth noting perhaps that none of the art works included in this exhibition, Artists Thinking About Science were specifically made for this exhibition context, and further that only some of the artists included have an ongoing interest in science.

David O'Halloran, Curator