Beaker Street CoLab
CoLab is an experiment that aims to find out what happens when you pair research scientists with Year 9-12 school art students, with the goal of inspiring new artworks that communicate scientific concepts and ideas. The students work directly with the scientists, including visiting their labs or field sites, and then create an artwork inspired by the scientific research. The artworks are then exhibited at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery during Beaker Street Festival.
2026 Projects
Photography by Cassie Sullivan
The Hidden Helix
The Hidden Helix
Pterosi: Angels Chorus
Pterosi: Angels Chorus
MEMB
MEMB
Fading Footprints
Fading Footprints
Sleeping Algae
Sleeping Algae
The Algae Alliance
The Algae Alliance
The Brain
The Brain
Distortion
Distortion
Reaching for a Monument of Tiny Danger
Reaching for a Monument of Tiny Danger
Empty Handed
Empty Handed
Sea Sample Spectacular
Sea Sample Spectacular
Slowly But Surely
Slowly But Surely
Clio’s Dance
Clio’s Dance
The Dazzling Diatoms
The Dazzling Diatoms
2025 Projects
Photography by Cassie Sullivan
Big Billy Bunya Pine
Big Billy Bunya Pine
Spilling
Spilling
One in a Krillion
One in a Krillion
Chickpeas for a Changing Climate
Chickpeas for a Changing Climate
The Beaker’s Breaking Point
The Beaker’s Breaking Point
Trickling all the way down
Trickling all the way down
Lupa
Lupa
Incognisant
Incognisant
The Starry Mind
The Starry Mind
Brian (a brain lit up like a Christmas tree)
Brian (a brain lit up like a Christmas tree)
Chickpea Connections
Chickpea Connections
Under Our Feet
Under Our Feet
Jelly and the Metal Heads
Jelly and the Metal Heads
Abnormal Interaction
Abnormal Interaction
2024 Projects
Photography by Peter Whyte and OI Studios
Come into the darkness to see the light
Come into the darkness to see the light
Catching Clouds
Catching Clouds
In the Dark
In the Dark
Degeneration
Degeneration
Decompose
Decompose
Bottled Life
Bottled Life
in cns
in cns
The invisible light that glows
The invisible light that glows
Microscope
Microscope
“In shape no bigger than an agate-stone on the fore-finger of an alderman”
“In shape no bigger than an agate-stone on the fore-finger of an alderman”
Mapping the Microscopic
Mapping the Microscopic
The Unconquered
The Unconquered
Two Lives
Two Lives
2023 Projects
Photography by Peter Whyte
Food For Thought
Food For Thought
Cancer Can be Beautiful
Cancer Can be Beautiful
Cataracts
Cataracts
Purple Manifestations
Purple Manifestations
Live-bearing Seastar Box
Live-bearing Seastar Box
Castles Crumbling
Castles Crumbling
Death on Life
Death on Life
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
Forget
Forget
Through the Clouds
Through the Clouds
Ancient Crystal Sediments
