Bethan Burnside

Bethan Burnside (any/all) is a communicator and budding curator at the intersection of science, art, and lived experience advocacy. They have a background in neuroscience and work as a science communicator at a neuroscience research center in Leuven, BE. While pursuing a PhD in Biomedical Sciences, they were diagnosed with ADHD and, through their participation in the BioArt Coven, discovered bioart as a tool for exploring their neurodivergence. They created the NeuroArt Exhibition, a platform amplifying neurodivergent voices in neuroscience through artist-researcher pairings, which culminated in an exhibition at Science Gallery London (UK). Since then, they’ve also curated Divergent BodyMinds at Zomerfabriek (Antwerp, BE) and were a fellow at the Science & Art Summer School: ‘The Consulting Room of the Future—Spaces for Care,’ the results of which will be shown at Science Gallery Rotterdam (NL). Through the Curatorial Studies postgraduate program, they are keen to develop foundations for their practice, which until now has been self-taught.