Art in good health: how science and culture mix the best medicine
Why are so many health organisations funding art projects and what can artists and scientists gain from close collaboration?Anna Dumitriu turns bacteria into art. She has stitched strains of MRSA into a quilt; she has crocheted with the bacteria Staphylococcus epidermidis, found on her own bed. For her latest exhibition, The Romantic Disease " just opened at the Watermans arts centre in Brentford, west London " she h…