Christopher Logue

I have had the opportunity to live and work in some beautiful places around the world from Scotland to Quito to Colorado. I am originally from Ireland and currently live and work in the beautifully lush countryside of Wiltshire in the South West of England. I have been as mesmerised by the beauty of DNA as much as the places I have lived.

I have a Ph.D in Viral Genetics and have been working on designing genome art as a hobby over the last decade. This began in 2003, when I was the winner of a Siemen's design competition for designing a novel range of DNA-inspired phone covers.

I have been working on a creative process that combines representing the DNA sequence (genome) of a subject as a unique digital image.

DNA is made up of 4 "bases" commonly represented by the letters A, T G and C. These are the fundamental building blocks of life. The building blocks of digital imagery are called pixels. In this process, I marry the two building blocks by representing each DNA base (letter) as individual colour pixel. I have also created work using individual shapes (rather than solely pixels) to represent the DNA sequence of the subject.

"Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature...

Ph.D "Sequence Analysis of Alphavirus Pathogenesis" Trinity College Dublin, Ireland 2005.

B.Sc (Hons) Virology, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, 1999.