Dr. Ionat Zurr is an Australian artist, researcher and curator. She is also a lecturer for the

University of Western Australia The University of Western Australia (UWA) is a public research university in the Australian state of Western Australia. The university's main campus is in Perth, the state capital, with a secondary campus in Albany, Western Australia, Albany an ...

(UWA), and has been a visiting tutor in Design Interactions for the

Royal College of Art The Royal College of Art (RCA) is a public research university in London, United Kingdom, with campuses in South Kensington, Battersea and White City. It is the only entirely postgraduate art and design university in the United Kingdom. It offe ...

. Zurr, together with

Oron Catts Oron Catts is an Australian artist and researcher currently residing in Perth, Western Australia where he has been employed at the University of Western Australia since 1996. He works as an artistic director of SymbioticA, which he also co-found ...

, founded the Tissue Culture & Art Project in 1996. Zurr worked for more than 20 years at

SymbioticA SymbioticA is an artistic research lab at the University of Western Australia's School of Anatomy and Human Biology."Culture: Art That Touches a Nerve." Anthony King. Nature 470, 334 (17 February 2011) doi:10.1038/470334a The lab looks at biolo ...

, UWA's Centre of Excellence in Biological Arts, and is a pioneer of making art with living, engineered tissue. Zurr is the Chair of the Fine Arts discipline at UWA's School of Design, and instigated the Master of Science (Biological Arts), an interdisciplinary program involving both art and science.

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Ionat Zurr biographical information and resources
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Artists from Western Australia University of Western Australia faculty Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Australian women artists {{WesternAustralia-stub

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