A combination photo of Niamh Cunningham's paintings of cellular divisions. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

Cunningham worked with photomicroscopy as a university student and was trained as a medical lab scientist. In the 1990s, she was a contributing editor for a radiology publication, Diagnostic Imaging Asia Pacific, based in Hong Kong. Cunningham has since returned to look at medical imagery in recent months, with the help of a Tsinghua University stem cell researcher, Professor Na Jie.

Through the brushworks of cells, Cunningham hoped to look at the future of medical capabilities, including regenerative medicine – growing replacement tissue from stem cells – and ownership of genetic information.

If you go:

10 am – 5 pm, until April 9 (closed on Monday). Dong Yue Art Museum –99 Chaoyangmen Outer Street, Chaoyang district, Beijing.