Anna Dumitriu

Anna Dumitriu is a British artist, born in Brighton in 1969, where she is based, who works at the meeting of art and microbiology. Her installations, sculptures and textiles use bacteria, DNA, robotics and traditional crafts such as embroidery and quilting to explore infectious disease, antibiotic resistance and the history of medicine. She has been artist in residence with Modernising Medical Microbiology at the University of Oxford and with the National Collection of Type Cultures. She was President of the Science and the Arts section of the British Science Association in 2018.