Artistic Description

These first four prints feature DNA (www.dnaftb.org). In these artworks DNA represents the centre of our humanity. It is also the focus for the scientists we have come to know through our residency at the Cancer Research UK funded laboratory at UCL, London. This is a computer generated ‘space filling molecular model’ of DNA. Our admiration and respect for the scientists and students who are dedicating their lives creating new drug therapies is shown with exuberant colour.

In this artwork the DNA’s double helix is shown in its usual vertical format. Crick and his partner Watson made the first 3D model of DNA using pin pong balls on an upright structure and now this is how it is usually represented.

Next to the DNA on the right the artists have screenprinted multiples of green and purple circles to portray the innumerable test data of the scientists. The circles lively fluorescent colours seem to generate their energy as the colours “flicker”.

Technical Description

Here DNA’s structure is observed in it’s iconic upright double helix model. This bright, vibrant print references the colours observed in FISH technologies (fluorescence in situ hybridization), where DNA is examined and labeled with a fluorescent tags. Multiple screenprintings of fluorescent circles crowd the length of Transformations in Science and Art, portraying arrays of test result data.