Jim Pattison, University of Dundee
Over the last decade the works of renowned printmaker Jim Pattison have concentrated on the manipulation of images and information using digital technology, and the re-modelling of virtual digital images into paintings, prints and sculpture.
Jim's latest exhibition has been funded by an AHRC Small Grants (Visual Arts and Media: practice, history, theory) award under the title "Digitally designed visual responses to particular experiences and language of dialysis and kidney transplantation".
This work came about after Jim was diagnosed as having renal failure in June 1999. He subsequently underwent Continual Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis until he received a kidney transplant in July 2002. As he underwent the process of diagnosis, dialysis and transplantation he became aware of a need to make a visual sense of his experiences, and the complex medical terminology used to describe his condition.
Out of those experiences came the series of works, Translations. These 
works continued his investigation into the potential of digital technology to transform and re-model information. For this exhibition Jim has used source material drawn from specific experiences and language of dialysis and transplantation and considers how 2 and 3D digital modeling processes can be used in order to re-form this complex information into new and personal images and models of these events.
In particular, Jim has used material from his own medical records, as well as photographs and memories of situations and events he experienced during this time.
The exhibition was held during June 2006 at the Centrespace gallery in the Visual Research Centre at the University of Dundee. Amongst the visitors to the exhibition were members of printmakers from the Print Studio in Dundee Contemporary Arts as well as a number of school groups.
Jim has spoke of this transformation of his experiences into art forms as having "helped externalise some of these experiences, and has heightened and enriched my own understanding of these ongoing events."
Jim has exhibited extensively both within the UK and across the World, from Edinburgh and Glasgow, to Moscow and Cracow. In addition his work has appeared in numerous group exhibitions and publications.
For more information please see: www.vrc.dundee.ac.uk/centrespace/2006/translations.html
Credit Photographer: Vicky Hale
Image copyright: Visual Research Centre