I was invited to take part in this exhibition by Professor Roger Wilson, Head of the School of Fine Art at GSA. This exhibition involved 3 artists; Professor Roger Wilson, B.E. Cole, and Stuart Mackenzie, and their responses both to the D'arcy Thompson zoology collection and the theories and observations arising from his research.

The title Heresies refers to Thompson's own description of his research in the eyes of the scientific establishment. It also works as a reminder of the impact of his work on artists practising in the first half of the 20th century including Jackson Pollock, and their effort to establish a visual language connected to the natural world but distanced from academic naturalism.

The three artists involved in this show employed different media and approaches but share a common interest in the generation of form through process. All three employ close observation and extensive experimentation leading to works which add to our visual language and our relationship with science and the natural world.