But some of these helped shape the field and the ones I use to illustrate this when I teach metabolomics are detailed below:įiehn et al. This is when there were relatively few papers that were being published. This for metabolomics we can trace for about a decade from 1998. The lag-phase here is where there is great Hope in a field. The growth of any field follows that of a bacterial culture that starts off with a lag-phase, flourishes through an exponential phase and finally enters its stationary phase. The rest of the history of the Metabolomics Society is on record at its web site and for those interested you can learn more there. The growth of the journal is evident from its publication record and impact of the work. On a subsequent visit in 2003 when I had moved to Manchester (formerly UMIST and now the University of) he successfully convinced me (with a little encouragement from Rima) to talk to Laura Walsh at Springer Footnote 1 about forming this journal and becoming its Editor-in-Chief. I fondly remember that George had visited me several years earlier in the UK when I was at the University of Aberystwyth and persuaded me to co-edit the first book on metabolomics (Harrigan and Goodacre 2003). Masaru Tomita joined us to be Founding Directors. Bruce Kristal who joined us to launch the society. At both meetings my friend and colleague Dr George Harrigan joined us for discussions, and at the Orlando meeting Rima introduced us to Prof. Rima Kaddurah-Daouk, who went on to be the inaugural president of the Metabolomics Society-which was launched at the second meeting in Orlando. The Princeton meeting was where I first met Prof. The first in December 2003 in Princeton, NJ (the year that the biggest snow storm for some time had hit the USA) followed a year later by a second in Orlando, FL (a much more temperate climate!). Metabolomics was first published in 2005 and this Hatching was entwined with the birth of the Metabolomics Society ( The origins of both predate 2005 to two Cambridge Healthtech Institute conferences entitled “Metabolic Profiling: Pathways to Discovery”. I include myself in the eye spy game capturing my image in the glass of my studio as I work as well as the reflections of the Estate and the interior of our flat.The journal itself is also part of that History.
There is an element of imagination that lends itself to my documentation here and a bit of guesswork. I feel much like "an artist-anthropologist" watching, observing and depicting life around me. I feel an intimate connection with "The Flat with the Two Lamps" across the way and there is a strong sense of "home life" in the Crescent which these works attempt to capture. We may not know everyone personally, but there is a conversation to be had between strangers in the visual spectacle in these small paintings of interiors. Despite the anonymity and alienation of living in the centre of a large city, there is a sense of comfort in our Crescent. Being short-sighted (and without a telescope!), I see dark, strange amorphous forms and Hopper-like interiors.
The urban landscape takes on a life of its own in the early evening. It is the first thing that confronts me when I wake up and as in "Frobisher Crescent View from My Bed", the brutal forms are the last things I see at night. Living and working as an artist on the Estate, my work reflects the experience of being immersed in an urban landscape. In fact, I think this is better characterised as a case of "discreet and polite eye spy". There is a joke on the Barbican Estate that flats come equipped with telescopic lenses.
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