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34 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
University of Sunderland
Capsid - A glass sculpture visualising a virus
Capsid is a water-jet cut optiwhite glass and perspex artwork suspended in a grid-like formation by vertical nylon wires, created in an attempt to visualize a viral capsid in the process of self-assembly or disassembly.
Capsid was commissioned for and exhibited at ‘Virus: Bad News Wrapped in a Protein’ a multi-disciplinary exhibition exploring visual and aesthetic responses to the power of viruses at St John’s College University of Oxford (10 September – 9 October 2011).
The Capsid, a protein shell of a virus, ‘is a biological, structural and mathematical marvel which is highly sophisticated and can be used creatively for the enhancement of human life through the engineering of better drug delivery methods. Rennie presents an artwork which explores this marvel and suspends it for viewing within an introspective grid’ (James Peto, curator of the Wellcome Trust Gallery, in Virus: Bad News Wrapped in Protein catalogue).