From pencil to pixel 2023
- June 2023 until November 2023
- All ages
Past exhibition
Scientific illustration, besides being a very useful art form, is also extraordinary! Biologists, medics and many other scientists have used it gratefully for centuries: it shows what is not visible to the naked eye. A scientific illustrator chooses what to show and what not to show, and in which way, thereby creating a visual story.
From Pencil to Pixel gives an insight into the process behind the illustrations. Students of the Master Scientific Illustration exhibit their graduation work: each one an intriguing image that sheds a completely different light on, for example, the brain and digestion, shark bites or fungi. Using old traditional techniques (pencil) to the latest gadgets in the field of digital imaging (pixels), details are highlighted, added or omitted. A scientific illustration actually says more than a picture and a thousand words!
This exhibition shows the graduation work of students from the Master Scientific Illustration of Hogeschool Zuyd and Maastricht University. This international programme for scientific illustration is unique in the Netherlands and in Europe.