Commission in Response to John W Allen Collection, St Andrews University

Rachel Adams is the selected artist commissioned to produce an artwork in response to the John W Allen Collection. John Walter Allen was a physicist and academic at the University of St Andrews who was involved in the development of LEDs (Light Emitting Diodes) at SERL in the early 1960s. In his later research, he worked on LEDs in photosynthesis, plant health and skin cancer. Adams will make work in response to the Allen collection housed in Archive collections and Museum collections of the University of St Andrews. The subsequently commissioned artwork will enter the Boswell collection of modern and contemporary Scottish art.