Reactive Oxidative Species

About

A show of paintings by visual artist Daniel Calvert raised in east London specialising in a surrealist style, depicting imagery informed by fantasy genres and urban life as a whole.

Daniel Calvert wishes to convey ideas of biological corruption as a result of contemporary artificial influences such as xenobiotics and electromagnetic radiation and furthermore the effect they have on organic compounds in cellular structures.

Having received a formal fine art education and graduating from Camberwell College of Arts with first class honours the artist presents his debut solo exhibition Reactive Oxidative Species, raising questions regarding socio-economic factors and the ways in which inequitable distributions of wealth effect one's diet and consequently their long term health.

The term reactive oxidative species refers to a type of unstable molecule that contains oxygen and that easily reacts with other molecules in a cell. A build up of reactive oxygen species in cells may cause damage to DNA.