Pauline produces mainly two dimensional work, including painting, mixed media and print. Images are created through the use of micrographs via digital techniques up to large-format in scale, and also as light boxes. The work reflects upon the interdependence of life forms on the planet and our place within this.
Pauline studied at the Slade School of Fine Art to postgraduate level, followed by part-time lecturing posts and a lectureship in BA Design, Anglia Polytechnic University.
During 2002-3 a research residency at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Cambridge funded by an Awards for Artists and a Six of the Best award [Arts Council East], enabled the development of work through microscopy and digital imaging, culminating in an exhibition of largescale digital prints, light-box works and installations at the Cambridge University Botanic Garden, Bringing into Focus.
Recently she has been working with the support of a grant from the Wellcome Trust, at the University of Cambridge in the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience. The project, Cardio – Active, explores the form and structure of the human heart and changes that occur when normal function ceases, and the foxglove plant which has been used for 250 years in the treatment of certain heart conditions.
RECENT AWARDS
2009 Grants for the Arts award, the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
2004 The Wellcome Trust, sciart Research and Development award.
2002 Novartis / The Daily Telegraph; Visions of Science Photographic Awards.
Science as Art. 2nd prize.
2001 East England Arts / Anglia TV; Six of the Best; Best New Idea’
2001 Arts & Business; Small Business Initiative’.
2001 Commissions East and East England Arts; ‘Awards for Artists’.
2000 Arts Council England : ‘The Year of the Artist’.
Recent Solo & Group Exhibitions.
2010 – 2011 International Centre for Life, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
CARDIO – ACTIVE. A different view of treating the heart:
Moving from digitalis to digital.(solo)
2010 The Cut Arts Centre, Halesworth. Suffolk. (solo)
2009 BioCity Nottingham. [Healthcare and Bioscience Centre].
Cardio – Active:The Heart and the Foxglove (solo)
2009 Milton Keynes Hospital N.H.S.Trust. (solo)
2009 Papworth Hospital N.H.S.Trust. Cambridge. (solo)
2007 Bedford Museum. The Secret Life of Plants’. (2 person)
2006 – 2009 University of Cambridge, Department of Physiology,
Development and Neuroscience.Cardio-Active.(solo)
2006 ExCel London.The Royal Microscopical Society,
Microscience 2006. (solo)
2005 Cecil Higgins Art Gallery. Bedford. Angels in the Studio:
The Women of the Slade.
2004 – 2005 BioCity Nottingham. [Healthcare and Bioscience Centre].
Looking Beyond the Visible. (solo)
1999 – 2007 Elm Hill Contemporary Art. Norwich.
2002 & 2004 Galerie Last, Zurich, Switzerland. Modern British Abstracts.
2003 – 2004 Papworth Hospital N.H.S.Trust. Cambridge. (solo)
2003 Cambridge University Botanic Garden. Cambridge.
Bringing into Focus.(solo)
Recent Selected Mixed Exhibitions.
2007/8/9 Jill Bishop Contemporary Art. Suffolk.
2007 Tradition Aside, The Strang Print Room, University College London.
2006 Too Much Photography, Madlab Gallery, Columbus, Ohio, U.S.
2004 Open Print Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy. Bristol.
2003 – 2004 Visions of Science, The Science Museum, London;The Royal Society,
London and UK travelling exhibition. Sponsored by Novatis
and The Daily Telegraph.
2003 – 2004 Art, Age & Gender Foundation for Women’s Art,UK travelling
exhibition [including Usher Gallery, Lincoln;
Corn Exchange, Newbury and The New Greenham Arts Gallery].
2002 – 2003 Visions of Science, The Royal Society, London and UK travelling
exhibition. Sponsored by Novartis and The Daily Telegraph
2002 Art, Age & Gender; Foundation for Women’s Art.
Orleans House Gallery,London.
2002 The College Art Collections. Printmaking at the Slade
1960 – 1984. The Strang Print Room,University College London.
Collections.
Slade School of Fine Art.
Victoria & Albert Museum.
University College, London.
Worcester College, Oxford.
University of Southampton.
Bradford City.
Art Gallery.
Christchurch Mansion Museum & Gallery, Ipswich.
Norwich Castle Museum & Galleries.
The Arts Council of Great Britain.
The Government Art Collection.
Graphotek, Berlin.
BioCity Nottingham.
Papworth Hospital NHS Trust.
Anglian Water.
Chasestead Ltd.
Bedfordshire, Nottingham and Suffolk Education Authorities, Dulwich, Greenwich and Newark Borough Councils and private and schools collections in the UK & Europe and private and university collections in the US.