Canberra-based artist Julie Brooke is a former biomedical scientist who now holds a PhD in painting and investigates parallels between research in science and visual art.
‘Minimal Surfaces’ was developed from an interdisciplinary project undertaken in the ANU School of Applied Mathematics, as part of the Vice-Chancellor’s College Artist Fellows Scheme. Brooke worked with Dr Vanessa Robins and Professor Stephen Hyde who work in the area of topology, a branch of mathematics concerned with the geometric and spatial properties of shapes. Brooke aimed to find out how they visualise abstract concepts, and whether developing her own way of picturing these would help her to understand their research, focusing on the topology of a structure known as the entangled labyrinth.
ANCA Gallery
8 to 19 April, 2015
Australian Capital Territory
Julie Brooke, Entangled labyrinth, 2015, gouache, pencil and acrylic on board, 30 x 30cm
Courtesy the artist and ANCA Gallery, Canberra
