Portraits of photosynthesis: meet the artist

Join Odra Noel for a drink and discuss her new exhibition 'Portraits of photosynthesis', at this informal opening night in the Ri's Atrium.

Enter the mysterious Euglena and the glorious blue-green algae (cyanobacteria), the hardy lichens in full bloom and the primordial purple bacteria, which first opened up the way.

Take a look inside the photosynthetic cell, at the chloroplasts and mitochondria, catch a snapshot of these beautiful organelles where all the action takes place. Then dash down to the roots that ground the plants, making life on Earth (literally) possible.

Finally, see the colossal remains of photosynthesis past, back from the depths of geological time: the layered deposits of rusted iron, blood red and black at the bottom of prehistoric oceans, buried witnesses of the time that photosynthesis changed the earth’s atmosphere for ever.