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Sally Haynes Ba Hons, Cert Ed, Dip tex		back to the studio 8 page

My recent interests and working practice I exhibit several times a year and open my studio as part of Newbury Spring Festival. My artwork continues to address and explore a fascination with Science and Art. I have worked in the hospital departments of Genetics, Radiology, & Pathology and alongside scientists at Rothhamsted Research and UCL. “The awareness of my own cyclical patterns of behavior coupled with an increasing interest in portraying natural subjects from a different viewpoint has led to my working with particular shapes and scale change: bringing together worlds of symbolic visual language and pattern. I often use microscopic equipment, cameras and computers as drawing tools.”

Adding a bit of Sparkle The ongoing interest in the brain and its workings has taken me into various arenas of research and on many journeys. My belonging to the Catalyst group (Women, Artists & scientists), has stimulated research, and for the last couple of years I have been working in and around the area of memory; looking at how we remember, how we build memories and how we seem to loose them at times. Working with triggers that have fed my early memories. My journey has taken me towards 'blue sky' research, i.e. new findings. I have looked at the bulbs that were used to produce Galatomine and its treatment of Alzheimer's patients, (memory & behaviour). The synthetic reproduction of this drug resulted in very little, but the research into the snowdrops/bulbs which had originally excited me is proving to be a fascinating journey and an ongoing one. Whilst studing snowdrops; I found a snowdrop with four petals - a possible new variety/species.

Workshops / Teaching
Sally runs an evening class on experimental drawing as well as other workshops during the year. She has taught art to many groups including Alzheimer's, Newbury & Bradfield College students, and many other Schools and Colleges.

Awards

2005		BBSRC small grant for exhibition - (Bumblebee)
2003		Arts Council England - Research & Development award - (Arts/science) Bumblebees
2002		Y.O.T.A. Sci/arts residency at 3 southern Hospitals- Genetics, Pathology & Radiology
1999		Gilkey Centre Portland Art Museum OR. U.S.A. prints selected for International Exhibition
1991		Awarded a Licentiate of the Society of Designer Craftsmen

Exhibitions for 2007
Remember Me - Bristol Create Centre, 22nd October-2nd November
AMMP group Exhibition, Rabley Drawing Centre, 5th-15th July
Open Studios and Insight New Greenham Arts, 5th May-2nd June
Pastoral 2007 - Corn Exchange, Newbury, May-June
Remember Me - The journey - Havant Arts Centre, 1st-25th April
Catalyst 13 - Remember Me - Petworth House, 17th-28th March

Publications
Health Service Journal Dec 2002
General Practitioner Magazine Nov 2002
Royal College of Nursing Magazine Nov 2002
Artcare Express Dec 2002
Out & About Magazine (artists feature) 1997

		'Research' 2000 photography and drawing full screen
		'Numbered Chromosomes' 2002 digital print full screen
		'UV Bee' 2003 photography full screen
		'Fur' 2003 charcoal drawing full screen
		'Connections 1' 2004 digital print full screen

A Sense of Science - Art from the Medical Lab

Artist Sally Haynes produced imaginative artworks for three hospital departments as part of a unique project exploring the creative territory shared by art and science. Her exhibition - "A Sense of Science - Art from the Medical Lab" - was exhibited from November 2002 to March 2003. full screen

Sally was commissioned to explore the working territory of three medical science teams by gaining unprecedented access to view the behind-the-scenes work of staff in Radiology at Southampton General Hospital, Wessex Genetics Laboratory at Salisbury District Hospital and Pathology at St. Mary's Hospital, Newport, Isle of Wight. This enabled her to explore on a day to day basis, the images generated by the departments - from genetic codes to x-rays - and translate these into original works of art that show something of both the challenges and beauty of the world of contemporary medicine.

Sally said about her experience: "It's been probably the most interesting and yet demanding nine months of my life. There is always art in science and science in art, it just depends on how you look at it."

The host departments also found that having an artist on site gave them the chance to view their work in a different way and to realise that the worlds of the arts and sciences have much in common.

'A Sense of Science - Art from the Medical Lab' featured seven large artworks completed by Sally during her residency between January and October 2002 and was be exhibited at Salisbury District Hospital, Southampton General Hospital, St. Mary's Hospital, Newport, Isle of Wight and New Greenham Arts.

The project was established under Year of the Artist, a national Arts Council of England project to celebrate living artists and to promote greater awareness of the role and status of the artist in society, and funded by Southern Arts - Year of the Artist, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Healing Arts, ArtCare, Partnerships for Arts in Healthcare, three NHS Trusts and their participating departments.