This year I was selected to work alongside Paint Lab; a co-curated project by Interplay with Imperial College London. Running for a fourth year, Paint Lab invited ten artists to create live art pieces across the weekend of the Great Exhibition Road Festival, inspired by conversations with Imperial College London scientists working in different areas.

Staining Symbiosis portrays the body as responsive, reactive, and constantly changing at the cellular level.

Inspired by conversations with Dr Benedikt Hölbling, the work draws on Cell Painting – a technique that stains different parts of a cell to reveal how they respond to disease or drugs. Flowing ink and watercolour use colour and space to echo subtle shifts that signal health or harm.