Art of mathematics

In celebration of London Institute Fellow Yang-Hui He’s delivery of the Royal Institution’s renowned Friday evening discourse lecture on 24 February, his fellow Princeton alumna Marina Murvanidze Mitchell has created and donated four pieces of original artwork for display following the lecture’s conclusion.

Mitchell, a London-based Georgian American artist, explores the ambiguity of spaces and experiences through constructed images. She uses painting and photography as her main media. In these artworks, she has transformed the London Institute’s blackboards into harmonies of creativity and scientific discovery.

Extracting the formulaic nature of our fundamental research and fusing it with a hue tint tinge, these images tell a story of the beauty in mathematics. Cast onto aluminium, mathematical derivations are captured in a transcendent light. For us, each theoretical endeavour begins with a spark of creativity and chalk on a blackboard, and these artworks highlight this intrinsically creative nature of mathematics.

The artwork will be exhibited on the evening of the discourse lecture and sold in support of the London Institute’s Arnold and Landau Fellowships, which support theorists from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. A limited number of copies will be available. To register your interest in purchasing please contact Sarah Myers Cornaby, Director of Development, smc@lims.ac.uk.