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Art and Science

Approach

embodied, abstract, bilateral, process‑led, research‑based, collaborative

Date

From 2012

Location

Penelope Rose Anderson’s embodied abstract art and science practice brings together process‑led mark‑making with contemporary scientific research. Through long‑standing collaborations with physicists and astrophysicists, she explores how movement, perception, and material processes can translate complex scientific ideas into visual form. Her projects include commissioned work such as Cosmoparticle, now held in the Women’s Art Collection at Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge, alongside ongoing interdisciplinary partnerships that bridge studio practice with scientific inquiry.

A large oil painting measuring 200 × 180 cm, built from six layered fields of colour and mark‑making that evoke particle tracks, dark‑matter filaments and cosmic structures, created for UCL’s Cosmoparticle Initiative.

Mixed‑media painting depicting an abstracted figure flying past Saturn’s rings, exploring themes of cosmic origins and astrophysics.

Abstract acrylic painting combining a portrait of Zoe C. with imagery from diffusion tensor scans, 7‑Tesla MRI data, and brain tractography, depicting the search for the source of epileptic activity as part of the NEW SIGNALS project at CUBRIC.

Back‑lit digital artwork showing colourful brain tractography patterns on a transparent lightbox.

Abstract acrylic painting combining layered colour fields with imagery inspired by brain tractography of the cingulum and corpus callosum, a sagittal MRI view, and the embodied experience of entering an MRI scanner, referencing the artist’s birthplace of Braintree

Digital artwork depicting the installation of a 7‑Tesla MRI scanner being lifted into the CUBRIC research building.

Abstract oil painting inspired by gravitational waves and the LIGO discovery, with flowing wave‑like forms.

Abstract acrylic painting referencing magnetic levitation and experimental physics machinery.

Abstract acrylic painting inspired by superconductivity and the Meissner effect, with magnetic field‑like forms.

Abstract acrylic painting inspired by magnetic levitation, featuring forms referencing the spinning Levitron device, magnetic nanofluids, and experimental physics machinery.

Oil painting self‑portrait incorporating the artist’s own diffusion tensor imaging data, with abstracted coronal forms and colour fields based on brain tractography.

Oil painting self‑portrait incorporating the artist’s own diffusion tensor imaging data, with abstracted axial brain forms and colour fields based on tractography