Depicting the deep: the art of illustrating science
Depicting the deep: the art of illustrating science
Soon after its inception in 2013, the Deep‐Ocean Stewardship Initiative (DOSI) commissioned a bespoke artwork to illustrate its subject and scope. The resulting image ﴾above﴿ by artist Tanya Young has become DOSI’s calling card, used in all DOSI’s digital outlets, presentations, promotional materials and event backdrops. Its power to entice is not only in its intricate and wholesome beauty, but also in its detail and scientific accuracy of the fauna, activities and impacts it depicts. This poster explores the origin story of the artwork, the inspiration, techniques and processes that led the artist to its creation, as well as Tanya’s own story of her interest in the deep ocean as a subject matter for her art. DOSI has certainly benefited from the attention the artwork attracts, opening DOSI’s work on the provision of science‐based knowledge to a wider audience of scientists and artists alike, and showing how the art‐science collaboration is a potent tool to create understanding.
deep ocean, art
Barrio Froján, Christopher
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Baker, Maria
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Young, Tanya
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13 January 2025
Barrio Froján, Christopher
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Baker, Maria
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Young, Tanya
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Barrio Froján, Christopher, Baker, Maria and Young, Tanya
(2025)
Depicting the deep: the art of illustrating science.
17th international Deep-Sea Biology Symposium, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China.
13 - 17 Jan 2025.
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Abstract
Soon after its inception in 2013, the Deep‐Ocean Stewardship Initiative (DOSI) commissioned a bespoke artwork to illustrate its subject and scope. The resulting image ﴾above﴿ by artist Tanya Young has become DOSI’s calling card, used in all DOSI’s digital outlets, presentations, promotional materials and event backdrops. Its power to entice is not only in its intricate and wholesome beauty, but also in its detail and scientific accuracy of the fauna, activities and impacts it depicts. This poster explores the origin story of the artwork, the inspiration, techniques and processes that led the artist to its creation, as well as Tanya’s own story of her interest in the deep ocean as a subject matter for her art. DOSI has certainly benefited from the attention the artwork attracts, opening DOSI’s work on the provision of science‐based knowledge to a wider audience of scientists and artists alike, and showing how the art‐science collaboration is a potent tool to create understanding.
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Published date: 13 January 2025
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17th international Deep-Sea Biology Symposium, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China, 2025-01-13 - 2025-01-17
Keywords:
deep ocean, art
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Local EPrints ID: 499183
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/499183
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Christopher Barrio Froján
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Tanya Young
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