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So excited and privileged to have presented my research at DESY, the Institute of experimental physics in Hamburg, Germany at the invitation of Universitat Hamburg in October 2025. Spoke to the Particle and Astro-Physics Detector Development Group, the LHC ErUM-FSP office and with IPPOG and outreach representatives.

Honoured that The Sketchbook and the Collider has been awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant for 2023/24 from the PKF organisation in New York following an extensive and rigorous selection process. The grant funds my living expenses for the year freeing time to concentrate on the development of new work taking drawing into three dimensions integrated with moving image work. The award is in support of Lee Krasner’s mission to advance the work of visual artists.

The Image (right) shows Lee Krasner in Hans Hoffman’s studio, early 1940s. Photo ©Robert E. Mates and Paul Katz. Lee Krasner artwork ©Pollock-Krasner Foundation/ARS. Image courtesy of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation.

Ian Andrews has just been named as one of the Feeney fellows for 2023/24 by the John Feeney Charitable Trust. The Fellowship funding will enable the integration of drawing, three-dimensional structures and the moving image components of his work. He will be collaborating with a Birmingham-based fabricator to create three-dimensional structures on which the drawings will be created and with a video production expert to upgrade his skills in filming, editing and projection.

Ian Andrews has been appointed artist in residence at the University of Birmingham to work with the Centre for Systems Modelling and Quantitative Biomedicine for the next six months starting in September 2023/24 working with a research team looking at the disruption of circadian rhythms in the brain.

The Sketchbook and the Collider at the Forum Exposition Bonlieu in Annecy, France as a guest of Claire Adam Bourdarios from Laboratoire d’ Annecy de Physique des Particules as part of the Fete de la science in October 2022. Featured in the December issue of the CERN COURIER. https://cerncourier.com/a/the-sketchbook-and-the-collider/

The Sketchbook and the Collider was invited to talk to the International Particle Physics Outreach Group at their annual conference at CERN in Geneva 1n October 2022.

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I create immersive environments surrounding visitors with the “rhythmical choreography” unfolding throughout the universe from particle interactions forming reality to neuronal networks creating consciousness. My drawn language explores equivalents to these elemental processes and the installations transform the passive viewer to an active participant: embedding intra-action in my response to this universal rhythmical pattern exploring the interconnected nature of all things.

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