 |
Transmission
Joint 1st prize
Wen-Xi Chen
A-level student at Hills Road Sixth Form College
The picture depicts vesicles moving inside an axon towards a point in infinity. Another axon runs in parallel and is covered in an insulating sheath of myelin.
(click image for larger version)
Summer placement work
|
 |
 |
Life Touch Wood
Joint 1st prize
Alex McCuish
A-level student at Hills Road Sixth Form College
The form and beauty of the brain mirrored as a ball of tree roots. The shadow is the rest of life.
(click image for larger version)
Summer placement work
|
 |
 |
Neural Drone
2nd prize
James Stone-Lunde
A-level student at Hills Road Sixth Form College
The central brain controls all other neural processes. The artist explores the link between organic and inorganic matter.
I wanted to create an image that represented the nervous system and the neurons themselves, but in a way that perhaps challenged the viewer and distanced the piece from the preconceptions of scientific images being necessarily microscope pictures. When I realized that information from stimuli travels through neurons in the form of electric pulses, the idea naturally evolved into my final piece, where neurons are replaced with wires and cables.
(click image for larger version)
|
|
 |
Cytosis
3rd prize
Jonathan Whitmarsh-Knight
A-level student at Hills Road Sixth Form College
The brain investigates itself.
(click image for larger version)
|
|
 |
The Generation Procreation Gap
Heather Bingham
A-level student at Hills Road Sixth Form College
The woman releases synaptic vesicles, which then travel across the synapse. The synaptic vesicles are then retrieved by the foetus by endocytosis. The symbolic idea behind the piece is of reincarnation, or the passing of life from the pregnant woman to her foetus.
(click image for larger version)
|
|
 |
Mind Abuse
Robert Read
A-level student at Hills Road Sixth Form College
My work is about the effect of drugs on the human mind. How do they change what we do and what are the consequences of interrupting our minds? In other words, is someone who has taken [mind] altering drugs still themselves?
(click image for larger version)
|
 |
 |
Out of Control
Daniel Coles
A-level student at Hills Road Sixth Form College
Neurons aid the body in sending messages around to muscles and other body parts. I found it interesting to see this as the neurons that are controlling the body, and are so controlling the world. I have tried to show this by using the DNA spiralling out of control whilst the neurons are taking over the landscape.
The point of the grass is to show the transformation of small to big, because the neurons are obviously very small but they are affecting the world, which is very big, and so when looking at the piece you are meant to feel insignificant and small compared to what is going on in the skyline as it is not something you can control.
(click image for larger version)
|
|
 |
Ballerina
Emma Marsh
A-level student at Perse School for Girls
The ballerina's movements are precisely controlled by the brain in the same way as a puppet dances at the whim of the puppeteer.
(click image for larger version)
|
 |
