My name is Meghan Metcalf, and I am a final year student at Gray’s School of Art, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland. Currently studying Fine Art, I joined Gray’s in 2022 directly into stage two. Previously spending several years at the Northeast Scotland College in the city where I acquired valuable skills and tertiary knowledge to further focus my practice and critical development toward undergraduate study.
I work predominantly with the language of printmaking, and my practice aims to depict the human body both externally and internally. Anatomy re-imagined, the seen and the unseen. I am fascinated by the journey of an idea from digital to analogue and exploring materiality and the printed artefact throughout.
This year I am undertaking my project in collaboration with the Center for Adaptable MRI Technology (AMT Center) at the University of Aberdeen. The overall concept of my project is anatomy re-imagined, where art and science meet to create a new formation and visual interpretation of the human body.
I will focus on the conceptualisation of head and chest anatomy, depicting this through the lens of a creative as well as a scientist. Using very low-field MRI data obtained from myself, I further aim to conceptualise the colours used to depict and map lung functional ventilation information, understand this from an artistic perspective, and explore how it can be taken further into the future.
