Pascale Pollier-Green
Artist Statement:
Pascale’s work attempts to capture the point where art and science meld. An alchemist at heart, her work begins with observation and experimentation, and is steeped in solid scientific research and findings.
Her inspiration is drawn from observing the internal and external human body in all its diversity, life and nature in all its beauty, strength, fragility, disease, mortality, immortality and death. New technologies and philosophies, quantum physics, nanotechnology, animatronics are amongst her interest and are important in her work.
A Belgian National, Pascale studied fine art and Painting at St Lucas art school in Ghent, Belgium, and subsequently a postgraduate training with the Medical Artists Association, London UK. She was co-founder and president of BIOMAB (Biological and Medical Art in Belgium) and now in the role of scientific advisor to Biomab’s study programme (ARS) Art Researches Science , she is curating and organising exhibitions, dissection drawing classes, collaborative art/science projects, symposiums and conferences. In 2015 she became co founder and president of the non profit organisation ARSIC “Art Researches Science International Collaborations , an international collective where Art and Science become entangled. This interdisciplinary association unites artists, scientists and those with a passion for the synergy between Art and Science, Technology and Philosophy. ARSIC pursues several goals. Organising and curating SciArt exhibitions, conferences and collaborative projects, supporting the publication of articles, books and films. From 2007-2018 Pascale worked as an artistic assistant for Belgian Artist Jan Fabre, gaining a great deal of material knowledge and experience of exhibiting his work in places such as the Louvre Museum, Paris, and the Venice Biennale, and other major galleries and art festivals.
Pascale was an external examiner for the medical art course at The Centre for Anatomy & Human Identification, University of Dundee, and from 2017-2020 was an external examiner for the MA Art in Science course at John Moores University, Liverpool.
Pascale is past President of AEIMS 2014-2020. And is past Chair(wo)man of the Medical Artists Association of Great Britain 2021-2022. Pascale currently lives in Liverpool and London , worked in Liverpool as a research assistant at the FaceLab from 2020 till 2021 and was medical artist at Primum Digital Crosscover https://www.crosscover.co.uk/ from 2021-2023 and is a self-employed artist./sculptor@artem-medicalis.