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\"Eleanor\"\"The Courtauld Gallery is one of the last places I would have guessed I would be working, if you had asked me a few years ago. At this time, a pharmaceutical or neurological laboratory would have been more in line with my expectations. But, after three years of degree study in Biomedical Science, I decided life at the lab bench wasn\u2019t for me and I turned myself over to the humanities for a degree in Science Communication, in order to share my love for science with the public.<\/p>\n

As the child of two potters, my journey down the science pathway was a bit of a breakaway from my artistic side, but it wasn\u2019t long before I became interested in communicating science through art, as a way of reconciling my two (often opposing) interests.<\/p>\n

It was soon into my Masters in Science Communication at Imperial College that the opportunity to apply for the internship at The Courtauld arose. Although I had done a piece of research on the use of enriching the teaching of science with arts and humanities, I had no experience of enriching art with science.<\/p>\n

The Courtauld, like all galleries, provides information on the historical context to their objects and paintings, which can often include social, religious and political context, but science is not something seen within many art galleries.<\/p>\n

I wanted to bring out not only the technical science of the creation of my selected object, but also the effect of the state of the scientific world of the time on the object. Scientific discoveries fuelled how we looked at the world, often having huge influences on the development of societies.<\/p>\n

Keep an eye on the Gallery blog to find out more about my Illuminating Objects project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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