Category Archives: Art

52 Museums – this week on Instagram

Posted on April 27, 2016 by Alastair Culham

The Reading University Museums and Collections are running the 52Museums account on Instagram this week.  We are theming entries around the alphabet and will be showcasing artefacts from A to Z. The Herbarium is one of those collections and so … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Herbarium RNG, PhD research | Tagged | Leave a comment

SciArt in practice: experimenting with new materials

Posted on December 8, 2014 by Immy

This is part of series of blog posts about my work on a science-themed art commission with UoR’s EM Lab. The artwork was inspired by SEM images of tree fern spores. The first two blog posts in this series are … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Herbarium RNG | Leave a comment

A long hot summer of sci-art…

Posted on October 13, 2014 by Immy

After a long and exciting summer of sci-art, I’ve been pleased to get back to the Herbarium as a visiting artist, and round off the season with a visit from another lichen-loving artist, Louisa Crispin. I’m also starting work on … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Herbarium RNG | Leave a comment

Ship of the desert docks at RNG

Posted on June 19, 2014 by konyveskalman

One of the roles of the University of Reading Herbarium (RNG) is to support the activitites of research students, by providing material, which may be sampled under supervision. While Sue Mott (RNG Deputy Curator) was looking for a specimen for … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Herbarium RNG, PhD research | 1 Comment

The Symbiosis Book goes digital!

Posted on April 25, 2014 by Immy

Many thanks to the staff and students at the herbarium, who helped to digitise The Symbiosis Book last week. The book was part of the Symbiosis Project, and is made of 15 large sheets of cotton paper, folded to form … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Herbarium RNG | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment