Anna Glynn & Peter Dalmazzo
Interdisciplinary Art & Science Collaborations

“…Their art practice combines both the insights, facts, and vision of real biology (courtesy of Peter’s expertise) done on site, but then it is shaped into aesthetic expression (by Anna) in installations, videos and sound works that are far more vivid and expressive than any textbook or study…” Tanya Ortega President National Parks Arts Foundation, USA

Project Excerpts from Glynn & Dalmazzo Interdisciplinary Art and Science Collaborations

Anna Glynn & Peter Dalmazzo in their art & science collaborations work in partnership carrying out international, interdisciplinary art and ecology projects. Their practice is driven by curiosity and their desire to learn and understand more about the environment that we all inhabit. Their love of nature and ecology is a strong influence on their individual professional practices.

Recent collaborations have been Kyoto in 2024, Japan with the Geneto Art Foundation creating DWELLING KYOTO and at Mt Wilson in 2023 creating ‘Beauty on Beauty.’ an exploration of the Blue Mountains Basalt Forest endangered ecological community and in August 2023 they were artist and scientist in residence in the Arctic Circle, Finland working in the land of the Sami.

Their past projects include: 30 days isolated on a small island in the Gulf of Mexico, to the top of an extinct Australian volcano recording the giant pink slugs of Mt Kaputar and a project connecting a new UNESCO biosphere reserve in Sweden with an existing biosphere reserve in Oregon, USA. Their moving image works are shown internationally, have been finalist in prestigious awards and are in major collections, including the Australian Parliament House Art Collection and the National Museum Australia.

Artist Anna Glynn and biologist Peter Dalmazzo took part in the ARNA-project Art, Ecology & Science to connect the vision for a new UNESCO biosphere reserve and the development of science facilities for material studies in the region of Skåne in Sweden.

The aim for the project was to test how a future art program can create crossborder experiences between the fields of Art, Ecology & Science to support public outreach and a sustainable development.

During 2018 the project involved five artists developing cooperations together with the municipalities of Sjöbo, Lund and Eslöv, the Science Village Scandinavia, the science facility MAX IV, the Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences at Lund University. Connections were also developed around the globe, with Matsalu Nature Film Festival in Estonia, Sitka Center for Art and Ecology in Salmon Head biosphere reserve in USA and Noosa Biosphere reserve in Australia.

Art, Ecology & Science was developed by the organization ARNA i Fågelriket with support from Region Skånes kulturnämnd.

Video ‘glimpses’ revealing ecological elements encountered at Grass Mountain, USA

ARNA Fågelriket is a nonprofit organization. Through their projects they involve artists from around the world to explore and express human relationships towards nature and to unfold culture's role in a sustainable development. ARNA is situated in an existing area in the south of Sweden. Two visions are developed here, a new UNESCO biosphere reserve in Vombsjösänkan and a grand scale science area outside the city of Lund. Two science facilities will study materials of everyday life in extreme details, from plastics and proteins to medicines and molecules. The research at MAX IV and ESS are expected to lead to breakthroughs in medicine, environmental science, climate, communication and transport. The two visions, of biosphere reserve and science area, have connecting points. Physically they meet just outside the city of Lund. Visionary they meet in the aim of working for a sustainable development in human service through collaboration and openness.