Tactile Creations with Erica Tandori

Artist with low vision, Erica Tandori invites you to embark on a multisensory journey through the world of immunology, the study of the human immune system.

In this inclusive art-making workshop, get hands-on and produce your own scientific creations using raised line drawings and tactile objects.

This activity is open to all ages and abilities including those with blindness, low vision and diverse needs. All materials are provided.

Erica Tandori, a legally blind Artist in Residence at Monash University's Rossjohn Laboratory, creates multisensory science exhibitions for blind, low vision and diverse needs communities.

Erica’s art practice explores the interplay between art, science, blindness, and visual perception. Her PhD focused on the lived experience of blindness caused by juvenile macular dystrophy. Utilizing the very language of vision itself -visual art – to describe vision loss through oil painting, drawing and digital works, Erica created an eyewitness account of her own blindness, which has changed our understanding of how macular dystrophy may appear from the lived perspective.