About the Artist
Roland Verreet
Roland Verreet lives in Germany and is a renowned mechanical engineer. As a creative outlet he studies foraminifera, following in a tradition established by nineteenth-century naturalists: gathering samples of this ancient life form and capturing their intricate structures under complex optical, digital, and scanning electron microscopes. Experimenting one day, Verreet used these instruments to look at samples of sand from the Cayman Islands, finding that most of the supposed grains of sand were actually of organic origin. Fascinated by these tiny single-celled animals, he started the painstaking process of cleaning, analysing, and photographing them. The resulting series of photographs are now part of the National Gallery’s permanent collection and were featured in the solo exhibition Luminescent Forms at NGCI in 2015, subsequently travelling to the Little Cayman Museum in 2019 and to Cayman Brac in 2020.
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