Image: Isomorphogenesis No.3 by Gemma Anderson
William Latham and Gemma Anderson are facilitating an ‘Organic Systems’ Drawing workshop at The Natural History museum as part of ‘The Big Draw’ – the world’s biggest drawing festival.
This is a rare opportunity to get hands on experience of the Natural History Museum’s collections to gain insight into evolutionary processes through drawing.
The event will take place on Sunday 19th October from 11am.
Latham began his career studying Printmaking at the Royal College of Art (1983-1985) where he developed the ‘FormSynth’ method. He then worked as Artist in Residence with IBM between 1987-1993 which led to the ongoing ‘Mutator’ project http://latham-mutator.com and is currently Professor of Art and Games at Goldsmiths University of London.
Anderson also studied Printmaking at the RCA (2005-2007) and has been working in collaboration with scientists at the Natural History Museum and Imperial College since 2006. She is currently Associate Lecturer of Drawing at Falmouth University, where she is also completing her practice based PhD (2011-2015) www.gemma-anderson.co.uk.
Anderson has adapted Latham’s rule based (algorithm) evolutionary drawing method ‘FormSynth’ to create ‘Isomorphogenesis’ an extended Organic Systems drawing process, which relates directly to the Natural History Museum’s collections. In this workshop Latham and Anderson will share their experimental drawing methods, which perform an analogue to morphogenesis.