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The day we met Otobong Nkanga...

25/1/2019

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 Picture: left to right - Jean, Filomina, Me, Otobong, Lloyd and Bill

The day we meet otobong nkanga at the artes mundi 8. Read more on my blog. Www.peneloperosecowley.com #artesmundi #artesmundi8 #otobongnkanga #art #installationart #comtemporaryart #womenofpower #artandscience #artsci #nigeria #wales #cardiff #inspiringwomen #feminism #powerwomen #artouting #nigerianartist #worldart

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 Artes Mundi 8 

National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, Wales

My art students and I had the pleasure of meeting the Artes Mundi 2019 nominee earlier today, Otobong Nkanga. She took the time to explain her beautiful, intriguing, delicate amazing work. Of a levitating rock, a massive tapestry with Milkyway space dust explosions, images of tear gas combustion and riot control water jets, a magical tree,  map of the world with all the borders and a journey of time. Full of textures and deep meaning of the macrocosm and microcosm of human interactions and collisions, the drama of the universe and the drama of the human in equal measure.

I was overwhelmed by her charisma and wealth of knowledge, skill, and exuberance of this wonderful woman. I feel so honoured and humbled. My students listened intently and ask questions about her work Otobong was eloquent and engaging explaining in detail the methods she used, expressing the limited colour palette of 8 threads that could be transformed into over 2 million different varieties of shades, tones and textured weaves with the use of modern loom digital technology.

Otobong accounted on the history of tapestry in Nigeria and the expression of power in the weave. Of the connections to the Silk Road, the threads of silk woven into the power stories of families and the hierarchal meaning behind the quality and feeling of the materials used. Of modern materials and the transformation this brings for all to have intricate patterns.

Otobong has a wealth of knowledge from the ancient crafts to transcendent concepts in the electromagnetic physic phenomena finding a balance between - now, then and the future.

Artes Mundi 8 has outdone it's self this year. I was suprised and enthralled by all of  the work and Otobong Nkanga was most certainly well deserving to win, which I thought she had. We all congratulated her, it may have been a misunderstanding but either way to be exhibited and nominated would still be great I'm sure, but I wish she had won. It truly was my favourite, she had me at levitating rock... anyone who knows me, knows I love things that float on a magnetic field, merging art and science in all the ways I love, she's an inspiration. Just incredible.

Apichatpong Weerasethakul was the winner with a simple, atmospheric video work. As Bill said, 'it was very calming'.

The names of all the nominees are: Anna Boghiguian (Canada/Egypt), Bouchra Khalili (Morocco/France), Otobong Nkanga (Nigeria/Belgium), Trevor Paglen (USA), Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Thailand). Read more about all of them herehttp://www.artesmundi.org/exhibitions-prizes/artes-mundi-8

Artes Mundi 8 is on till May is well worth seeing.

My students and I also saw the Kyffin Williams exhibition which we enjoyed which I will discuss more another time for now here are some pics from our visit today.

Penelope Rose Cowley x

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Cardiff School of Physics and Astronomy

25/1/2019

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  (original post 2/25/2016) Yesterday the three paintings for Cardiff School of Physics and Astronomy department were put up on the wall in the new coffee area for permanent display. It's wonderful to see these three settled in their new home. When Dr. Dan Read and I first met we were in the Pier Head building for Cardiff Science Festival 3 years ago. He had his marvelous magnetic demonstrations and I had some paintings up displaying Diffusion Tensor Images of my brain. A year later I'm down in the basement Labs of the Physic department with some canvases and paint and Dan with his liquid nitrogen setting up the Messiner  effect, showing me the 'monster machine', explaining about Magnetic Monopoles and Cane, Charlie and Danny Phd student popping in demonstrating all sorts such the Levatron , see the video below its very cool! I'm very much looking forward to continuing working with the department and yesterday I met Prof. Steve Eales, Dr. Richard Lewis and Prof. Mark Hannam.  We discuss the colliding of black holes and gravity waves and this may well lead to some very interesting new cutting edge artsci work... Richard briefly explained about capturing the trails left by neutrinos and I'd love to talk with him more about this.  
Emily Garsides wrote article on the Wales Art Review to read more about the paintings click the link below. 
Dr. Dan Read and I will be continuing to work together in collaboration with the 'New Signals' project for the new Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Center CUBRIC more on this later...... 

http://www.walesartsreview.org/art-meets-science-magnetic-monopoles/


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In Awe of Physics-

25/1/2019

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(7/14/2014)

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In Awe of Physics-

Painting in the Basement Lab, Cardiff School of Physic and Astronomy 1st July 2014 and 8th July.

Dr. Dan Read and I’s plan for day 1 (and day 2 the following week) was to set up the Meissner Effect and paint in situ. I brought with me my materials and equipment- Two freshly ground canvases, 3ft by 3ft, shimmering with washes of silver and paynes grey acrylic. A white box of jars and gold, silver, copper, white and prepared mixtures of shimmering dark greys paints, long purple brushes, sketchbook, notebook, one right handed calligraphy pen and one left handed calligraphy, a few pencils and realms of science papers containing information about Magnetic Monopoles and Kagome lattices and papers on Diffusion Tensor imaging all written all or in part by Cardiff University Professors and Doctors.      

I had been waiting for this day since I first set eyes upon the Meissner Effect demonstration at the Cardiff Science Festival 2013 by Dan and his team. Dan and I where that day exhibiting opposite each other in the Cardiff Pierhead building. Dan with the physics and I with paintings based on, Diffusion Tensor Imaging of my brain, these are derived from Magnetic Resonance imaging scans conducted at CUBRIC in 2012 by Prof. Derek Jones and Dr. Silvia de Santis. Our love for superconducting magnetic materials certainly resonated with us both. 

Dan had just finished setting up ready for the public who would be arriving in 10 minutes at 10am Saturday 20th July 2013. I took the opportunity introduce myself and take a closer look at the strange cloud cascading from a small curious dish on his table. I walked towards him stood, with gleaming smiling eyes as if he held some great secret about this world and I now knelt at his table to be at eye level with what I now know to be is the Meissner and (*a name missing here*) Effect. 

It's difficult to express this first moment. At first glance I thought my eyes betrayed me. A small cube dark in matter tinged with frost seemed to be levitating above a small round disk; this was set in a pool of the strange ethereal fluid substance with a cold mist dancing evaporating like lazy smoke flowing off the table descending with gravity. Dan caught my attention with a pair of plastic teasers entering my filed of vision as he genteelly tapped the cube and set it rotating, floating before my eyes on it’s axis.

The effect was rather superbly overwhelming. Dan explained the cube was not ‘levitated’ as such but rather held in a Magnetic Field where by the cube is superconducting when very cold ethereal cascading liquid Nitrogen (77k) cools. Here the cube is in the process- ‘expulsion of magnetic flux’.

Since then Dan and I agreed to plan a few days where by, I will set up my canvases and paint in suit, this incredible and delightful demonstration of physics. The feeling of Awe seizes to be depleted and I am continuously struck by the mesmerising Meissner Effect, I was not the only one.

 As soon as the demonstration was set up the basement lab on the 1 st July 2014, Dan’s students; Charlie, Daniel and Cane all starting taking pictures and looking closely at the phenomena. They are as intrigued as I am. It goes to prove that it never seizes to amaze. As I began to paint, conversations bubbled about all manner of super conducting magnetic materials and their properties. We all shared ideas of about all sorts from- vacuums, ‘Stargates’ and future technologies, stories prevailed about my Grandfathers quest to create a Perpetrol motion and the trouble with friction. Cane shared conversations he has had with his, Grandfather, his Dad and brother about ethics of his science. What if something you invented was used to cause good and bad? His brother would ask...

I came to understand these magical people intend to offer the world their ideas, theories and inventions to this world; to be delivered unhindered, peer reviewed, tested and expressed through an infinity variety of applications. That the world will in turn use, alter, enhance and change at will all of their potential outcomes. One thing is clear Magnetism is the future! We all agreed upon that and ‘Magnetic Monopoles’ will probably play a central role.

In the flow of our discussion Cane said hang on a moment ‘I’ll just go and get my levatron’, (this made me smile, its not everyday you here that! My daughter Jasmin aged 10 gives a statement below, about this which best explains it) he bought it in to the lab and I set up the second canvas and quickly began to paint this too as the inspiration poured out. He set up 3 more demonstrations all together. The afternoon continued; liquid nitrogen was topped up again and again with a frilling sense of mischief and awe by Dr. Dan Read and I felt like I was swimming in a dream that mingled and tangled with a tangible future.      

‘Magnetic Monopoles’ these words are unlikely companions aren’t they! On the 2 day I focus on the ‘Monster Machine’! It stands in off centre in the lab, almost finished looking grand and beautiful nearly touching the ceiling. Dan and his students have been working on this since last summer.

I remember seeing it when I came for a quick visit last September. Now it is twice the size, and its beauty grows. Charlie explained- It will be use to evaporate premollys (magnetic materials) that will rise up inside to be assimilated on the lithographed Silicon (and eventually Graphene) membranes created using the electron photon laser. A Kagome lattice, that looks like a honeycomb is lithographed and the evaporated premollys settle into place and cooled from above and heated to extremes from below. Observation is possible through a channel looking into the vacuum. I find the whole beast in enchanting, I image the path of the evaporating premollys  dancing up inside to be quenched in disorder, examined with the results recorded by Charlie.

I am creating three art works on canvas that express the observed, imagined  and assimilated. These will be exhibit at the Senedd, Cardiff Bay between 10-4 Saturday 19th & 20th July 2014 along with DTi Artwork of my Brain and Dr. Dan Read with his students showing the demonstration for all to see. To read more, see images of the lab, studio and progression of artwork go to www.massivedynamicart.com    

Statements: My daughter, Jasmin Gale and Richrad Higlett of Cardiff Contemporary Art Festival 2014.

My mum Penelope Rose is doing some painting on science and I went to see them but I got distracted by a spining top floating in mid air and I figured it out. I'll tell you when you put a spinning top down it just falls over but if you spin it, it stays up right. The spinning top has a magnet south facing up and a big platform with a magnet north facing up so the two magnets repel themselves so it floats. There was so much stuff it was so cool and I am not the sort of person to be impressed easily but it was so AMAZING!

Jasmin Rose Gales aged 10 daughter of Penelope Rose Cowley, describes her experiences of visiting the Dr. Dan Read's Basement Lab on the  1st July 2014 at Cardiff University School of Physics and Astronomy 

Artists and Scientists are different elements. The artists offer or makes questions....the scientists generate answers. Each sees the 'object' differently, a table stands in between as the buffer and the object, a glass perhaps is placed on top, the two elements face each other, observing the glass from different perspectives.  

Penelope is awe struck by the experiments and chooses to paint the demonstrations in the basement lab in situ. One may ask why paint the phenomenon’s when they could be documented through photography or video? 

Painting is the longest way to drag out the moment and perhaps the only way to fully appreciate the wonder. 

Richard Higlett - Conversations at BayArt with Penelope Rose Cowley, Cardiff Bay,10th July 2014



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Exhibition at the Senedd Today 12-4

25/1/2019

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Art exhibition and Demonstrations 
@
Senedd 19th and 20th July 2014 12-4 
National Assembly for Wales
Cardiff Bay
Cardiff
CF99 1NA

For the Cardiff Science Festival 2014

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Title: The Shape Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 25 x 36 inches Year: 2014
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Title: The Meissner Effect Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 35 x 35 inches Year: 2014
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Title: Levatron Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 35 x 35 inches Year: 2014
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Title: Inverted Thoughts Medium: Montage Mixed Media on Canvas On Canvas Size: 40 x 30 Inches Year: 2013
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Title: Saggital Self Portrait Medium: Oil On Canvas Size: 40 x 30 Inches Year: 2013
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Cardiff Physics department unveils new art/sci work

25/1/2019

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'Infinite LIGO dreams' will be unveiled tomorrow 25th Nov 4-6pm at event the celebrate opening of the new coffee area in Cardiff Physics department. The painting will a be new addition to the to adorn the walls along to join three other paintings inspired by my time spent in Dr. Dan Read's Lab back in 2014.
Articles:
Cardiff University
http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/520304-artwork-inspired-by-gravitational-wave-discovery

Physic World
http://blog.physicsworld.com/2016/11/24/the-beauty-of-gravitational-waves/


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Infinite LIGO Dreams
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60" by 48"
2016

  On the 24th February 2016 I was in the new coffee area at the Cardiff School of Physic and Astronomy. I had created 3 paintings regarding Dr. Dan Read's work concerning magnetism. 
These paintings where beginning hung up on the wall of the new coffee area and whilst I was there I was introduced to Prof. Mark Hannam.  He spoke of the new discovery of Gravitational Waves from LIGO. We discussed that it would be fantastic to create an art work to celebrate this momentous event in our history.  In the following weeks a meeting was arranged with Chris North and Edward Fauchon-Jones along with Jason Charles Roger our sound engineer. We decided that I would produce a large oil painting reflecting some of the data mixed in with imagination of our galaxy's binary black holes, pulsars, neutron stars and other elements of space. Coupled with this we created a video/audio piece integrating the development of the painting and data provided by the university along with raw audio recordings and predictions of the Gravitational Wave signals. Jason and I worked together to produce the music on the video combining the raw audio with 'spoken word' narrations about the new discovery and beats to tie all the visual and audio together.  


I am inspired by the sheer over welcoming immensity of this discovery that proves general relativity.  It is difficult to grasp how important it is to know our actual coordinates in this vast expansive space and all that influences our path through it. This data proves without a doubt that the equations work beautifully; binary black hole mergers exist and now we have found the first, LIGO shortly found another and when it is switched on again (which it may be already) I am sure there will be a influx of amazing new discoveries matching up with the predictions established from general relativity and our galaxy will show its self to be teaming with binary black holes, pulsars spinning into each other black holes swallowing up neutrons starts just as there are in the painting I created imagining the  data as visible waves and structures in the immensity of this our diverse and busy universe.   

The project was completed  within 3 months during the Summer 2016. It, the painting has been waiting eagerly for its new home in the Gallery Coffee Area in the Physics department where it shall be unveiled on the 25th November 2016 between 4-6pm along with video, speeches and drinks.

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CERN Courier

25/1/2019

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Infinite Ligo dreams is published in the cern courier

PictureMatt Griffin and I at the unveiling of 'Infinite LIGO Dreams' for the 'Rest Frame'.
(original post from 1/19/2017)
The artwork commissioned by Cardiff University Physics and Astronomy Department during the Summer 2016. Has this month been published in the CERN Courier Jan/Feb issue 2017. 

http://cerncourier.com/cws/download/Jan-Feb17

Thanks to the Senior communications officer from Cardiff University, Michael Bishop who created the blog:  

http://blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/physicsoutreach/2016/11/25/new-artwork-inspired-gravitational-wave-discovery/


Highlighting the artwork commissioned for the ‘Rest Frame’ room in the department and the discovery of the gravitational waves. The detection of gravitational waves by the twin aLIGO detectors, announced in February last year, is one of the most significant discoveries in physics for decades.

It was around this time back last February 2016 that I was introduced to Prof. Mark Hannam a binary black expert. When some other artworks were being hung in the department inspired by magnetic monopoles that I had created in Dr. Dan Reads lab a year or so before in the summer of 2014.  

Mark spoke of the new discovery of Gravitational Waves from LIGO. We discussed that it would be fantastic to create an artwork to celebrate this momentous event in our history.  In the following weeks a meeting was arranged with Chris North and Edward Fauchon-Jones along with Jason Charles Roger our sound engineer. We decided that I would produce a large oil painting reflecting some of the data mixed in with imagination of our universe’s binary black holes, pulsars, neutron stars and other elements of space. Coupled with this we created a video/audio piece integrating the development of the painting and data provided by the university along with raw audio recordings and predictions of the Gravitational Wave signals. Jason and I worked together to produce the music on the video combining the raw audio with 'spoken word' narrations about the new discovery and beats to tie all the visual and audio together.  


Michael Bishop published the blog to announce the long awaited opening of the ‘Rest Room’ and the painting was unveiled on the 25th November. Matt Griffin Head of School, Stephen Eales, Mark Hannam and myself gave a short speeches to a crowded room and then the blue paper covering the artwork was torn off to be unveiled, it was a fantastic evening.

Micheal Bishop spread the news and Physics World created an article too and he also contacted Lisa Gibson Production Editor, CERN Courier who then contacted me to express that CERN Courier would like to use the image to accompany an article in the Jan/Feb 2017 issue. Well I must say this is a wonderful honour and I so very glad that people all over the world can enjoy this art inspired by one of the most impressive discovery of the decade.

‘CERN Courier’ is available now for free to download, simply click the link and read all about the lastest news-

http://cerncourier.com/cws/download/Jan-Feb17 

Up Coming commissions-
'The interconnection between particle physics and cosmology' for UCL
and
'New Signals- exploring macro and micro structure of the brain' for CUBRIC. 

2017 is going to be a busy year for Art and Science.

'Infinite LIGO dreams' Giclees £144  click here to buy





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