Bios

IAN ANDREWS

During a residency at the University of Birmingham working with award winning particle physicist Prof Kostas Nikolopoulos in 2018 Ian made transformational changes to his practice creating the project The sketchbook and the Collider which seeks to establish equivalents between the interaction of fundamental particles and the basic visual elements of the language of drawing. He has since delivered 14 exhibition/events and 35 workshops, including a solo exhibition at the Forum Exposition Bonlieu, Annecy, France in October 2022, “Reality is not what it seems,” following which Ian was invited to talk at the International Particle Physics Outreach Group 25th annual conference at CERN in Geneva.

He was honoured in 2023 by the prestigious Pollock-Krasner Foundation in the USA and is in receipt of a grant in support of Lee Krasner’s mission to advance the work of exceptional visual artists experiencing financial difficulty.

He recently returned to the University of Birmingham in 2023/24 as artist in residence with the Centre for Systems Modelling and Quantitative Biomedicine working with a research team led by Harvard physicist professor Clare Anderson investigating the disruption of circadian rhythms in the brain.

He was also honoured by the City of Birmingham by being awarded the John Feeney Fellowship for 2023/24.

PROFESSOR KOSTAS NIKOLOPOULOS

An experimental particle physicist at the University of Birmingham, he was strongly involved in the Higgs boson discovery at CERN in 2012. He received the 2019 Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists in the UK for his leadership and personal contributions. 

He aspires to further our understanding of mass generation for matter and is committed to inspiring a new generation of scientists and citizens through cross-disciplinary collaboration and outreach activities and in 2020 won the European Research Council Public Engagement with Research Award for the Exclusive Higgs project of which The Sketchbook and the Collider is a part.