As a repeat from last year, the General Assembly will be documented by EGU’s very own artists in residence! Morgane Merlin, an environmental science PhD student and visual artist based in Alberta, Canada, and Giorgo Skretis, a visual artist and musician based in Chania, Greece, will be producing illustrations and sculptures throughout the week to share their conference experiences and communicate science. Why not take a break from the scientific sessions and enjoy the Assembly through a more artistic medium with this collection of science-inspired artwork. This page will be updated with more of Merlin and Skretis’ work as the week progresses.
Monday:
Credit: Morgane Merlin for EGU. License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
Credit: Morgane Merlin for EGU. License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
Plastics and microplastics in our aquatic environments. Artworks by Morgane Merlin. Photo from Anastasia Kokori
Credit: Morgane Merlin for EGU. License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
Tuesday:
Magma transport in the crust. Artwork by Morgane Merlin. Photo from Anastasia Kokori
Lava in crust. Credit: Morgane Merlin for EGU. License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
Artwork by Giorgo Skretis. Photo from Anastasia Kokori
The tiny menace of bark beetles for our forests. Artwork by Morgane Merlin. Photo from Anastasia Kokori
Artwork by Giorgo Skretis. Photo from Anastasia Kokori
The tiny menace of bark beetles for our forests. Artwork by Morgane Merlin. Photo from Anastasia Kokori
Wednesday:
Artwork by Morgane Merlin. Photo from Anastasia Kokori
Reaching for the stars. Credit: Morgane Merlin for EGU. License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
Artwork by Giorgo Skretis. Photo from Anastasia Kokori
Thursday:
Artwork by Morgane Merlin. Photo from Anastasia Kokori
Artwork by Morgane Merlin. Photo from Anastasia Kokori
Artwork by Morgane Merlin. Photo from Anastasia Kokori
Aspen leaf. Credit: Morgane Merlin for EGU. License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
Artwork by Giorgo Skretis. Photo from Anastasia Kokori
Friday:
Artwork by Morgane Merlin. Photo from Anastasia Kokori
Artwork by Giorgo Skretis and EGU 2019 conference participants. Photo from Anastasia Kokori
Merlin is a hobby artist who works with a variety of media, including watercolors, acrylics and pastels. She says that, at the meeting, she will focus on creating illustrations based on the main research results of selected presentations. “The art work will be a copy of this main result encased in a colored painting (watercolor) or drawing (colored pencils) embodying the beauty and singularity of the object of research, whether it is a landscape, rock formation or living organism,” she writes in her winning application. With a background in environmental science, she says she strives to share her passion for the natural world through both her research and hobbies: “I wish to showcase the admiration for the natural world we have as scientists, fueling our passion for research.”
Skretis is an artist working with sculpture, drawing, photography and sound. He says his participation in the EGUGeneral Assembly “will be a great influence towards recontextualizing my art practice, both in terms of looking at Earth processes in a finer detail, and in terms of the analogies that can be drawn between the geosciences and the human sciences.” He is fascinated by the way matter crashes, merges and disintegrates in every possible scale, while at the same time it provides the conditions for life to emerge. During his residency he will create a small collection of sculptures using natural materials such as clay and plaster. The form and manner of creation of these sculptures will reflect the various processes and forces of nature, with a focus on themes presented at the meeting.
