New Artist in Residence in the Museum
We are very pleased to welcome Jazz Szu-Ying Chen as Artist-in-Residence in the Museum from September until December 2023. Jazz (b. 1990) is a Taiwanese artist residing in Taipei, Taiwan. After graduating from London’s Central Saint Martin’s, the world-famous art and design college, with a Master’s Degree in Art & Science in 2015, Jazz has been consistently exhibiting in both Taiwan and abroad. Jazz’s commission for London’s Chelsea & Westminster Hospital A&E Wing has been permanently on show since 2015. Her most recent solo show was in February 2023 with Taipei’s Chini Gallery at the Hybrid Art Fair in Madrid (by invitation of Taiwanese Cultural Bureau in Spain). She also regularly collaborates with the music scene, most notably with Houndstooth, London’s Fabric Club’s in-house record label, on their 2018 critically-acclaimed compilation “In Death’s Dream Kingdom.”
Jazz’s subjects of focus span over her interest in the beauty and grotesque within the field of anatomy/botanical historical and ornamental imageries, to mythologies and folklore. For more information see @jazzszuyingchen on social media or visit www.jazzchen.com
During her time here, Jazz will be producing artwork inspired by specimens in the Museum and running workshops on Taiwanese art.
The Museum of Life Sciences plays host to a programme of events throughout the year, including its own lecture series, Lectures in Life Sciences. This aims to promote an interest in, and understanding of, the Life Sciences throughout the college and lectures are designed to be accessible to the general college community. Each is followed by an informal reception in the Museum, where members of the audience can meet each other as well as the speaker and where, if possible, a small selection of relevant specimens is exhibited.
A rare opportunity to explore the Museum of Life Sciences, a ‘small gem in the heart of London’!
Some of the museums’ historic microscope slides and plant specimens will be on display too, and you can also watch our regular art-group at work – as well as doing some drawing of your own.
Visitors are also free to examine the eclectic range of plant, animal and pharmaceutical specimens housed in the museum and view the unique collection of glass sculptures and models which celebrate the role of King’s College in the discovery of the structure of DNA.
Suitable for adults and accompanied children. All welcome.