TLRH | Art + Science Reading Group | Botany + Barriers

Recorded May 07, 2020. The Art + Science Reading Group is now a
virtual gathering of thinkers, researchers and the incurably
curious. Organised by PhD candidates Amelia McConville (School of
English and Institute of Neuroscience) and Autumn Brown (Science
Gallery Dublin and School of Education) supported by Science
Gallery Dublin and the Trinity Long Room Hub, the series will
explore the evolutionary and revolutionary kinship between two
approaches to understanding the universe and our place within it.
Writers, scientists, and artists will be beaming in from all over
the world to shed some extra light on our discussions and provide a
personal perspective to some of the artwork shared. We’ll discuss a
broad range of topics including bio-art, the aesthetics of
mathematics, taking a non-human perspective, AI and gender, and a
space probe’s mission to carry our stories into the cosmic
wilderness. For this first session we were joined by speaker Mary
Dillon, an Irish botanical artist whose work has been exhibited
internationally, most recently in Florence, Germany, Vienna,
Pittsburgh, St. Louis, San Francisco, Madrid, Frankfurt and London.
She was a key contributor to the Drawn From Nature: Irish Botanical
Art exhibition in the National Gallery of Ireland (currently
postponed). She is a fellow member of Society of Botanical Artists,
UK and a member of the Watercolour Society of Ireland, and is a
founding chairperson of the Irish Society of Botanical Art. She
teaches in Barcelona, Greece, the US, Ireland, and was on the
teaching team of the Chelsea School of Botanical Art in London.
Mary has a particular fascination with botanical art as a personal
process for the artist while at the same time striving for
excellence in her art practice. Learn more at:
https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/