Ionat ZURR
Artist / Researcher / Curator
Dr Ionat Zurr is the Chair of the Fine Arts Discipline at the School of Design, The University of Western Australia. Zurr is an Australian artist, researcher, curator, who together with Oron Catts, founded the Tissue Culture & Art Project in 1996 and is a pioneer of making art with living, engineered tissue. Zurr instigated the Master of Science (Biological Arts), an interdisciplinary program involving both art and biology. Zurr, together with Catts, often works in collaboration with other artists and scientists and have developed a body of work and projects which reach beyond the confines of art; their work is often cited as an inspiration to diverse areas such as new materials, textiles, design, architecture, ethics, fiction, and food.
