Franziska Schenk

Franziska is an artist, researcher and educator whose practice has been located at the interface of Art, Science and Ecology for more than two decades. Located at the interface of art and science, and deploying discursive, trans- disciplinary methodologies, Schenk’s research links fine art practice, evolutionary bioscience and optical physics - the trajectory being to catapult the ancient medium of painting into the nano-age. Taking inspiration from nature, and notably the chameleonesque, the aim is to introduce, via novel colour-shift, ‘the dynamic’ into painting – historically a decidedly static medium. And, in doing so, capture on canvas the process of oscillation between permanence and the ephemeral, the recognizable and the obscure, revelation and camouflage.