by Briony Marshall | Oct 12, 2020
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature – the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter. ...
by Briony Marshall | Oct 12, 2020
In 1953 Watson and Crick suggested the now iconic double helix model of DNA (thanks also to data from Franklin, Chargaff and Wilkins). This discovery led to our understanding of genetics and the birth of molecular biology. This also had a great influence on my late...
by Briony Marshall | Oct 12, 2020
In Embryology, the Carnegie Stages are a set of 23 stages used to describe the developmental chronology of a vertebrate from fertilisation to the point it becomes a foetus. When I was researching my embryogenesis work, I came across the early stages of human...
by Briony Marshall | Oct 12, 2020
I started working on the idea for this series of works at the start of my year long Pangolin London residency. Although pregnant at the time, I wasn’t intending to produce any work about that but ended up by a strange coincidence developing this work about...
by Briony Marshall | Oct 12, 2020
This work was inspired by the theory of emergence “when the whole is greater than the sum of the parts, indeed, so great that the sum far transcends the parts and represents something utterly new and different”. It takes us back to the big bang and the first...