Bryndís Snæbjörnsdóttir, Programme Director at MA Fine Art, will take part in the symposium Beyond Plant Blindness: Where can a single plant take you? in the University of Gothenburg on November 10th.

The symposium is held in relation to a research project made in a collaboration between scientists, educational theorists and artists.

On this occation a new work by Bryndís Snæbjörnsdóttir and Mark Wilson will be exhibited; a large scale tapestry with the title Searching for Stipa. The work will be on display at the University's Pedaogy House.

The tapestry shows the complex structures of a grass seed Stipa pennata. Under the supervision of the artists Bryndís and Mark, a scanning electron microscope at Chalmers University of Technology was used to image the seed in twenty-nine detailed sections. The artists then meticulously assembled the scans as one image, using Photoshop. From this single file, the tapestry was woven in wool, in Norway, by Kristina Aas.

Bryndís Snæbjörnsdóttir and Mark Wilson are a collaborative art partnership. Their interdisciplinary art practice is research-based, exploring issues of history, culture and environment in relation to both humans and non-human species. Working very often in close consultation with experts and amateurs in the field, they use their work to test cultural constructs and tropes, and human behaviour in respect of ecologies, extinction, conservation and the environment. Their artworks have been exhibited throughout the UK and internationally. They are frequent speakers at international conferences and their works have been widely discussed in texts across many disciplinary fields. They conduct their collaborative practice from bases in Iceland & the north of England. Bryndís Snæbjörnsdóttir is Professor of Fine Art at the Iceland University of the Arts and Mark Wilson is Professor in Fine Art at the Institute of the Arts, University of Cumbria, UK.

More information on their practice can be obtained at: www.snaebjornsdottirwilson.com

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