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Exploring Science through Art
This is an art and science programme for schools at Broad Oak Nature Reserve, Canterbury, Pfizer UK, Sandwich, and in the classrooms of the Kent schools involved - Langdon Primary School and St Saviours School, Westgate on Sea.

The whole process of making art based on DNA

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The whole process of making art based on the visual images of DNA and the ideas it generates about individual identity is shown step by step below. The project with the schools looked closely at what the scientific aspects of DNA mean, and this was then translated into drawing, painting, relief sculpture with natural materials and personalised three dimensional self portrait sculptures, made partly from materials gathered from a nature reserve where the children learnt about DNA in nature.


Nature	Models and sketches	Maquettes	Large model	Self-portraits	Drawing from DNA model	Adding colour

Individual DNA paintings	DNA group painting	Using paintings as models	Relief sculpture	New ways of drawing	Working together	Finished work

Finished work	After one week	After one week	Material for DNA self-portraits	Material for DNA self-portraits	Fixing the pieces together	The "genetic forest"

Painting the wood	Paint drying	Fixing strapping for spirals	Painting the spirals	Finishing the work	All similar but different	Exhibiting the sculpture at Pfizer