From pencil to pixel 2024
- June 1st 2024 until November 17th 2024
- All ages
Past exhibition
Visualize the unseen
Of great importance for science and beautiful to look at: scientific illustration is an useful and extraordinary art form. It shows exactly what is needed. Complicated information is visualised and attractively portrayed. Unsurprisingly biologists, medics and scientists have used it gratefully for centuries.
A scientific illustrator tells a visual story and chooses what to show and what not to show, and in which way. Using everything from traditional techniques (pencil) to the very latest tools for digital imaging (pixels), details are highlighted, added or omitted. Thus the illustrations show what is not visible to the naked eye.
From pencil to pixel exhibits the graduation work of students of the Master Scientific Illustration: each and every one intriguing works that shed a completely different light on, for example, Siamese twins, owls, the female heart or naked mole rats. In addition, the exhibition offers an insight into the process behind the illustrations: how were the final works created? What sources of inspiration, examples and sketches preceded them?
One thing is clear: a scientific illustration actually says more than both 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.