Seed Shadow
Whilst sitting on the veranda of the Las Cuevas Research Station in Belize early in January 2008, Chris Minty and Hamer Dodds mooted the idea of undergraduates from the arts and the sciences working together in the field.
Six months later an artist from Edinburgh College of Art arrived at Las Cuevas to work alongside a scientist from Oxford University studying facets of neo-tropical synecology. The first travel scholarship was under way, cementing a unique co-operation between The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Edinburgh College of Art and Oxford University.
Seed Shadow is the first work produced from the 2008 Las Cuevas Scholarship awarded to the young Scottish sculptor, Richard Bracken, a final year student at ECA.
We hope this scholarship is the first of many, each encouraging cross discipline interaction and promoting original research between artists and scientists.
Six months later an artist from Edinburgh College of Art arrived at Las Cuevas to work alongside a scientist from Oxford University studying facets of neo-tropical synecology. The first travel scholarship was under way, cementing a unique co-operation between The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Edinburgh College of Art and Oxford University.
Seed Shadow is the first work produced from the 2008 Las Cuevas Scholarship awarded to the young Scottish sculptor, Richard Bracken, a final year student at ECA.
We hope this scholarship is the first of many, each encouraging cross discipline interaction and promoting original research between artists and scientists.