Primitive streak: exhibition

Primitive streak is a science-art collaboration elucidating 10 key events in human embryonic development by artist/designer Helen Storey (London College of Fashion) and biologist Kate Storey (University of Dundee).

Helen and Kate first collaborated on the project in 1997 to create a series of fashion/textile designs, spanning the first 1,000 hours of human life. Producing these at London College of Fashion, Helen and Kate worked interactively using design at multiple levels to evoke the key embryonic processes that underlie our development. Elucidating the first 1,000 hours of human life in fashion and textiles. This collection has been touring for 11 years, and has been seen by 5 million people in 8 countries.

14 years on, Helen and Kate collaborated again to produce new dresses, which explore the science behind the development and function of the lungs. The full collection is 27 dresses, of which 10 toured in 2011.

A website was created for the project by designers DED Associates, which can be viewed here http://www.primitive-streak.org

Related events include:

21st February 2011 - Press Call at the opening of the exhibition at Winter Gardens, Sheffield marking the start of the 2011 tour.

Feb 2011, 'Chemistry - Couture For Life', school workshop and talk with Framwellgate School, Newcastle.

14th March 2011, Exhibition preview including Q&A session, by co-creators Kate and Helen Storey at Centre for Life Newcastle, hosted by Chris Jackson (BBC).

30th October 2011, in conversation event at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, as part of the Manchester Science Festival.

21st February 2011 – Tour of Primitive Streak in situ at the Winter Garden with Professor Matthew Holley, University of Sheffield, Kate and Helen Storey.

7th March 2011, Café Scientific, ‘The lung – an inspiring organ’, Professor Helen Storey, Professor Matthew Holley, Professor Moira Whyte. The Showroom Cinema, Paternoster Row, Sheffield, S1 2BX.

11th March 2011, ‘The Human Lung’: Adsetts Lecture Theatre 6620, Sheffield Hallam University, City Campus.

8th November 2008, workshop held as part of the exhibition at The Gallery Space, University of Ulster.

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