Bioplastic

2015

In 2015, when Neus started the MA in Art and Science at Central Saint Martins, she started experimenting with making bioplastic at home as part of one of the creative excercises from the programme. She became deeply inspired by the experimentation process: mixing the different ingredients to achieve a bioplastic that could be used as material for artworks.

Bioplastic is a polymer and so is DNA; Neus saw a connection between the two, which she carried forward into her artistic practice and and explored forward in subsequent artworks.

For an initial test installation, she assembled various bioplastic pieces into a system, and photographed them with light underneath, to highlight the material's translucency and texture.

Publication

One of the bioplastic photographs was published in the book 'The Creative Stance' by Bob and Roberta Smith (Common Editions, ISBN 13 9780993156311, ISBN 10 0993156312).

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