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Sally Haynes Artist Ba Hons.- Visual Studies – Winchester School of Art Cert Ed. Dip Tex. syh@artsci.freeserve.co.uk		back to the studio 8 page

My recent interests and working practice I exhibit several times a year and open my studio at New Greenham Arts 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 Rothamsted Research, Southampton University and University College London. The awareness of my own cyclical patterns of behaviour, coupled with an increasing interest in portraying 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. My work is project based and drawing underlies everything I do.

Plastic – my current pre-occupation In 1998 I had a multi-media exhibition which explored the role of the can in contemporary society. It looked at the can as an icon, symbol of individual choice and metaphor for the throwaway culture. I looked at local recycling, the use of advertising and consumerism.

My recent sculptures again attempt to engage the audience into thinking about plastic usage and new ways of recycling. Much of the tonnage of waste products sent to landfill sites every day in the UK could be reduced or re-formed. Works on paper are an exploration into the use of plastic as a medium for drawing.

Workshops / Teaching
I run an evening class for artists on experimental drawing, I teach a life class at South Hill Park, & give talks as well as running workshops during the year. I have taught art to many groups including Bradfield College students, Portsmouth Girl's School, Trinity school, Alzheimer's Newbury, 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 2008-9
Group show New Greenham Arts - September 09
Corn Exchange, Newbury - Group show - May/June 09
Arlington Arts - Group show- May/June 09
Newbury Hospital – Group show – May/June 09
Open Studio & Insight Exhibition - May/June 09
Havant Arts Centre, Catalyst 15 - March 09
Peacock Gallery, 'Out to Play' Reading - January 09
New Greenham Arts, 'Re – form'- September 3-18th October 08
Cube Gallery, Plymouth University, 'Art & Insects'- September 3rd-18th October 08
Thomas Eggar Solicitors, 'Response'- February 10th-6th June 08
Welford Park 'Snowdrops'- February 5th-2nd March 08

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

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.

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.