and other ocean micro-worlds
Neil and other members of the Waterways art-science collective had work on display at Glasgow Art Club as part of the group exhibition The Bigger Picture in November 2025, combining origami seascapes with numerical simulations, marine ecology, and group-authored texts. Work on display included Neil’s origami installation Nudibranchs, a variety of North Atlantic plankton, and … Read more
Neil brought a rockpool’s-worth of new nudibranch designs to the British Origami Society convention in Edinburgh, autumn 2024. Not plankton but cute anyway.
A group show of recent art-science collaborations at Arctic Science Summit Week, Edinburgh, March 2024. Neil curated the show and brought the plankton. Neil’s diatoms in the background, along with crochet Arctic sea stars by Emily Doolittle and Laura Johnson‘s painting A Way of Life, Threatened.
As part of a COP26 Science Showcase called “Changing Climate, Changing Stories” at University of Glasgow’s Hunterian Museum, Neil folded the zooplankton typically eaten by a sandeel off the coast of Scotland at 50x magnification. The small copepods (representing Oithona, Acartia, Centropages spp.) are variants on the model diagrammed by Dasa Severova here. The large … Read more