Artist educator Alice White has been working with the team at the Polar Museum to discover how the spirit of exploration connects artistic and scientific enquiry.

The impulse to question, experiment, and communicate our knowledge and experience is shared by artists and scientists alike. This project aims to show that cross-disciplinary collaboration leads to greater understanding and new perspectives.
Alice White

The first time the Polar Museum’s Learning and Public Engagement Coordinator, Rosie Amos looked at a polar painting with Alice White, she realised that they weren’t looking at the same picture. Actually, it was Alice that realised that Rosie might see it differently, because she is an artist, and Rosie’s a scientist. She saw how different brush-strokes were used to communicate the way that light shines through oceans, glaciers, and skies. Rosie saw water in all it’s states: water, ice, and gas.

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