Santiago Ramón y Cajal  (1852- 1934)

Neurons of the myenteric plexus

Spanish painter, physician and the father of modern neuroscience.  With a microscope and simple tools from his art studio, Cajal drew the first known renderings of the nervous system.

Emily Kame Kngwarreye

Untitled, 1990, acrylic paint on canvas

Aboriginal elder and lifelong custodian of indigenous women’s Dreaming sites.  Ancestral journeys, spirits, animals and people within a matrix of native plant seeds and dissolved time ('everywhen').

ma·trix (n.) /ˈmātriks/

An environment within or from which something else originates, develops, or takes form.

Derived from Latin ‘mater’ (mother), 'matrix' (womb)