Artist Residency Exhibition Mar 2026

The Art of Eco-conscious Colour ‘ exhibition at the Cambridge Festival exhibition it took inspiration from  Diana Scarborough’s one-year art-science residency ‘Tailored Pigments’. It was funded by a BBSRC grant (UKRI) as a collaboration between researchers and industry.

With a sustainable heart of growing colour from bacteria, the exhibition is a creative journey told through sketchbooks, prints, pigment making, sound and film as a multimedia response to the innovative bacteria-based textile dyeing processes and pigments and plant-based processes she learnt from her scientist/researcher/biomaterial collaborators. They included Fruk Lab, (Dept. of Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology), Norwich-based company Colorifix and Lifefabs Institute.