Victoria Clare Bernie became an integral part of SAMS as artist-in-residence, funded by The Leverhulme Trust. She arrived in September 2008 and spent a year shadowing the scientific work carried out by two of our researchers, Drs Henrik Stahl and John Howe, under the Oceans 2025 programme. To view some of Victoria's work at SAMS click on the link below

http://www.victoriaclarebernie.com/

Her exhibit, untitled [wonderland], an ice detail video installation is currently on display as part of the Can Art Save Us? exhibition at the Sheffield Museum.

From the Museum of Sheffield:

"Can Art Save Us? is the first in a series of three exhibitions at Museums Sheffield: Millennium Gallery which draw on the ideas and insights of critic, author, artist and scholar, John Ruskin (1819-1900). At first glance an unlikely eco-warrior, Ruskin was ahead of his time in his recognition of the environment as a finite resource.

Featuring paintings, sculpture, installations and mixed media work from Tate, the V&A, the National Gallery and the Natural History Museum, Can Art Save Us? sees Ruskin's legacy illustrated through a diverse selection of historic and contemporary art including Turner, Hogarth, Hepworth and Tom Hunter. Drawing on Sheffield's unique Ruskin collection of art and artefacts, this exhibition thrusts Ruskinian thinking into the 21st Century to illustrate art's great capacity to stimulate debate and, ultimately, change."