Jasmine Pradissitto
London
Pradissitto’s Quantum Sculptures embrace the dual world of the Physicist and Artist. Based in London, she has a science Ph. D from UCL and has studied fine art at Goldsmiths and Sir John Cass. She has
Quantum Paintings and Sculptures in Light
Light:Definition:
1: noun the natural agent that stimulates sight and makes things visible:A dual nature. Light exists simultaneously as both particle and wave. A paradox-See Quantum
2: verb noun spiritual illumination by divine truth.
‘It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.’ Henry David Thoreau
As an artist and a physcist with a Ph.D. in light physics and materials, I cannot help but see the world from a different perspective.
For any artist, we look for resonance as we access our individual experiences seeking the visual metaphors which drive our vision.The same duality as found in light has also gone on to inspire everything from Art, to The Atomic Theory to, most currently, our very Consciousness; the duality paradox forced a paradigm shift in not only scientific thinking but is leading us into the Fourth Revolution: one of Thought. Illumination in thought and in reality challenges not just the artist but all of us.
Using special transparent plastics and wavelengths of light both to illuminate the work and create it, the duality of my work is implicit. Without light the work appears dark; Add light and it resonates in colour: changing only with a slight movement of the head.
The laws of pattern in both evolution and environment have long fascinated me: add to this, the fleeting resonant chords of our consciousness to the things around, and we have a natural link between the seemingly chaotic and order, the natural world and our minds.
Different doesn’t stop at what should be,but what could be.
2017 Unfold with MTART
2017 Clinic2// Vi+min London
2017 Shortlisted Art Gemini Prize, Asia House, London
2017 SWA , Mall gallery 156th Annual Show
2017 Embodied, The Sciart Center, New York
2017 Kinetica 10th Anniversary Show, Ugly Duck, London
2017 Artrooms, London
2016 Flux- Truman Breweries, London
2016 Utopia/ Dystopia with Fringe Arts Bath- Bath
2016 Artist and Curator with SLWA, Goldsmiths and The WAL- 'Pillow Talk' Tedx UCL and BBC100 Women, London
2015 Gravity, Kinetica Museum and The Hospital Club, London
2015 'Eureka' Sci-Art Show, London
2015 STEAM:ED COLLECTIVE
2015 The Brentwood Rd Gallery Touring Show - The Empathy Circuit Curator Richard Hore
2015 Dulwich Open Studios, London
2015 Gabriel Fine Art, London - Death & Transition - SLWA
2014 Abingdon Independent School - Down to last 2 for a £50k public art commission
2014 One Church St Gallery -Shortlisted Bryant Kellig Painting Prize
2014 SWLA Conway Hall, London -Finders Keepers, Losers Weepers
2014 Future Forum, Creativity in Physics with The Institute Of Physics
2014 Espacio Gallery, London - SWLA Colourswatch
2014 Holocaust Memorial Day Trust - Drawing Inspriration
2013 Mine Gallery, London - Drawing from Life
2013 Bils and Rye Gallery, Yorkshire - Figuratively Speaking
2013 Schwartz Gallery, London -Hot One Hundred
2013 APT Gallery Creekside - Shortlisted
2013 EWACC. London - Charity Group Show
2012 Threadneedle Prize, London - Shortlisted
2012 Galleria Pedrocchi, Padova - Transitions
2012 Palazzo delle Prigioni, Venice - Transitions
2011 Kinetica, London - First Light paintings
2010 UK Japan Art Award - Finalist
2010 Illumini, London - Secret Subterranean
2010 Sydenham Arts Festival, London - Group Show
2010 Brighton And Hove Museum - Precious-touring museum show
2009 Salon Gallery, London - Solo Show with Trudie Stephenson
2009 House Gallery, London 2 Person show-The Notion of Line
2009 Ludlow Open - Finalist
2009 New Brewery Arts Group, Gloucestershire - Finalist
2009 Mascells Gallery, Kent 3rd ko-ax 6 person show
2008 Alpan Gallery, New York - Group Show
2007 Pepperton Gallery, London - Flux
2007 Lautieri Moores, Cork St., London - Finalist
2007 Prevista London Showcase, London - Group show
2007 APT Gallery Creekside, London - Shortlisted
2006 Stroud House Gallery, Stroud - Selected Graduates Show
2006 London Metropolitan University, London - Graduate Show
2006 Celeste Painting Prize, London - Shortlisted
2005 Signals, London - Group Show
PRIZES
2015 Silver Medal for Painting, Masters International
2007 Lautieri Moores, Cork St. 2nd Prize for Carbon 12
1993 The Working Men’s College The Francis Martin College Prize for Life Drawing
FILMS
2017 Film on Innovative artists by Nonika Farafarika
2016 Documentary on the Quantum Work-filmed by Chrispin Hutton
2012 Light paintings Butterfly series …..Watch on Vimeo
2010 Light Paintings, Brighton and Hove Museum by Simon Wilkinson Watch on Vimeo
2006 Painting machines
RESIDENCIES AND TALKS
2016 Lewisham NHS Trust- Commissioned Artist with prints of the Quantum Work based on nature, in Lewisham amd Woolwich Hospitals.
2015 Ingenuity, London- A course on Creativity to Engineers- Creative Engineers Change the World
2015 Derby Silk Mill Museum, STEAM Residency
2015 Creativity in Chemistry with The Royal Society of Chemistry
2015 Crate, Symposium - How Artists Make a Living
2014 Mentor for UK arts Science Prize
2013 Innovation through a New Perspective - Government Dept. of Business, Enterprise and Innovation
2013 London South Bank University - Visting fellow- lecturing on creativity to engineers
2011 Portsmouth University - Visiting Artist creating first light paintings
2008 Portsmouth University - Investigating the nature of line in science and art
2005 Dulux and London South Bank University - Paint machines/installations looking using ideas in quantum mechanics.
2005 The Women’s Library, London A paint installation on the rights of women
2005 Chair for Crystal Palace Artists - A contemporary artist led group to in SE London
2004 The Institute of Education Commission on Chaos and Fractals in art
PUBLICATIONS
2017 Interalia Magazine Search for a Brave New world Aesthetic
2017 Studio Interview with Art thou
2016 The International Interest ‘Art and Technology: a crucial marriage in a post digital society’
2016 Interalia Magazine 'Joining the Creative Dots- a journey through Science to Art'
2016 An interview with Art the Science
2013 An Interview at Visual ArtBeat Magazine on my Quantum Paintings
2013 NY Publication Poetry Nook
2009 20x20 magazine Published
2008 BBC Blast Confluence of Science and art
COLLECTIONS
Lewisham Hospital -London
Tokyo Museum - Japan
Arches Hotel - London
Corinthia Hotel, London
London South Bank University - London
Hove Museum - Brighton
Institute Of Education - London
Federation Tower - Moscow
Private Collections - Worldwide
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