PUBLICITY STATEMENT FROM SENSATION SCIENCE CENTRE TO SCHOOLS
Paul Goodrick, an international environmental artist, will collaborate with the University of Dundee to organise and run a programme of linked art and science activities specifically focusing on identity and DNA. Two schools in Dundee will participate in the programme: Forthill Primary School and Blackness Primary School. The project will build an appreciation and better understanding by pupils (and by the adults involved) of both art and science by merging these subjects, opening up new channels of exploration and creating artwork based on science.

Topics covered will include:

* Fibonoacci mathematics, spirals in nature. Linking of maths and nature, translated into maths as a basis for pictorial art.

* Artists' approaches to self-portrait painting, and how we can find new, unusual ways to portray ourselves and others.

* Forensic identity and how we might find the identities of people who lived in the past.

The whole project is being presented in a web site, including curriculum links and background information. This web site will also be a location for children to post their work and ideas during the project.The project will also create a teachers' pack for an In Service Training
(INSET) module for teachers, which can also be used as a learning model
for anyone to access, also to be on the web site.

There will be final exhibition of all the work done by the schools at Sensation:Dundee, on 10th March 2006.

Hannah Crookes
Education Manager, Sensation:Dundee