Cavendish Arts Science Fellowship at Girton College

The annual Cavendish Arts Science Fellowship is delivered in partnership with Girton College thanks to the vision and generous support of Una Ryan.

The Fellowship supports the Cavendish Arts Science ethos of experimenting, decentring and re-imagining. It is designed for artists to develop thought-provoking ideas through engagement with physicists and those in other fields, and to experiment with new approaches to their practice that are transformative and push boundaries.

Our current CAS Fellow is South African artist Thulani Rachia.

CAS Fellows

Our current CAS Fellow is multidisciplinary artist Thulani Rachia

Previous Fellows include:

Multidisciplinary artist Akeelah Bertram who brought an interest in exploring spirituality, collective narratives and immersive technologies to her conversations with physicists.

Artist, dancer and researcher Robert Ssempijja who brought decolonial questions and an interest in our capacity to re-imagine how we live with uncertainty. 

Artist and composer Ain Bailey who brought an interest in multi-channel sound, architectural acoustics and the constellation of sounds that form individual and community identities. 

Experimental filmmaker Logan Dandridge who brought specific interests in memory, non-linear time and Black experience to his encounters with physicists as the inaugural CAS Fellow.

Fellowship Opportunity

The Fellowship offers opportunities for playful experimentation and the space to re-imagine beyond conventional artistic and scientific boundaries. It is conceived as a transformative artistic fellowship, designed for artists to explore new approaches and ways of thinking through engaging with scientists and beyond, and motivated by such explorations, to experiment with and develop new artistic work-in-progress.

The opportunity is open to artists internationally and is not confined to any single aesthetic, theme or medium. Artists with no previous experience of working with scientists or in a scientific environment are particularly encouraged to apply. We seek adventurous artists who explore alternative ways of knowing the world, and who work with communities that are not privileged in the mainstream. 

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