But in addition to working with renowned scientific thinkers, the group is also collaborating with a Scottish artist, resulting in the creation of two large and dramatic paintings depicting the light universe and the dark universe. Artist Gregor Harvie approached the Quantum Theory Group last summer asking for help with his current work which explores the nature of the universe. This resulted in Harvie being commissioned to create two large paintings to celebrate the bicentenary of Lord Kelvin, one of the most prominent figures in the university’s history The paintings will be unveiled by the university on June 8, building up to the 200th anniversary of Kelvin’s birth on June 26.
The collaboration would have won the approval of Einstein, who said: “After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity and form. The greatest scientists are always artists as well.” READ MORE: Celebrated play about Palestine to make Edinburgh Fringe debut Harvie agreed that there was more common ground between science and art than people might think.
“There has always been a relationship between art and science. They draw on the same cultural and environmental knowledge and have often explored similar ideas,” he said. “Both are a search for patterns, for things that are recognisable and repeatable and, ultimately, progress in either requires a leap of the imagination.
” Harvie said the collaboration had been an “imm.
