A thought-provoking new exhibition at the Royal College of GPs examines the upsides and downsides of drug-based medicine A thought-provoking new exhibition ‘What Once was Imagined’ (WOWI), at the Royal College of GPs, until May 31st, is a medical art collaboration between two friends, artist Susie Freeman and College Fellow Dr Liz Lee. Together their […]
For the past 14 years I’ve combined science with art to engage people of all ages with the beauty and wonder behind medical research, and the hope it brings. Out of all my public engagement work the most striking and captivating reaction comes from working with adults in oncology wards in University College London Hospital. […]
Behind the Smile is a solo exhibition focusing on mental ill health and the result of artist Toby Brown’s own experience of clinical depression. Two years in the making, the show features portraits of the artist’s family and friends as well as several high-profile sufferers of depression, including Tony Blair’s former director of communications, Alistair […]
From 15th April, The Freud Museum London will launch Tall Tales a new exhibition bringing together the work of 17 women artists, who weave storytelling techniques into their art. The building which now houses the Museum in Hampstead was formerly the home of the iconic psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud and his daughter, Anna, an eminent child-psychoanalyst […]
Opening at the Wellcome Collection, Euston, on 14th April and enlisting the help of artists, philosophers and neuroscientists, a new show looks at the idea of ‘voice’ from many different angles – sound, identity, body, psychology and culture. The exhibition’s Curator Bárbara Rodríguez Muñoz comments: “The voice is one of our key identifying features; most of us use it daily and spontaneously, […]