David Marron: Encounters Columba Quigley David Marron, Geras 3, 2013. Image courtesy of the artist and GV Art, London I was fortunate to catch this exhibition, held over the May Bank Holiday weekend at Lumen Studios, The Crypt, St John on Bethnal Green. David Marron is both an artist and a paramedic. The exhibition […]
Category: Reviews
Reviews of media other than books, e.g. exhibitions.
A little Danish mermaid and other stories (of rare diseases)
A reflection on Sofie Layton’s Under the Microscope by Giovanni Biglino (Bristol Heart Institute, Bristol, UK) The voice of a little girl and the sunlight filtering through layers of green batik – a series of coral-like structures representing real heart models displayed under bell jars – anatomical drawings – and the story of […]
The Forgiveness Project: Stories for a Vengeful Age
Images of Eva Kor embracing former SS guard, Oskar Groening, at his trial in Lueneberg this week have been shared on social media and in newspapers worldwide. These images, and the responses to them, reveal much about the complex, surprising, inspiring and challenging, sometimes even threatening, nature of forgiveness. Our relationship with forgiveness, collective and […]
Tiger Country (Hampstead Theatre): A Review by Aneka Popat
For some, the workplace is synonymous with shiny desks, immaculate windows and a calm open sea of computers, complete with the reassuring hubbub of Monday morning gossip. Yet, for those that work in the capital’s hospitals, the workplace is a jungle where the gleam of a scalpel and the unforgiving glare of ward […]
Cassandra (Royal Opera House): A Review by Rory Conn and Chloe Bulwer
Twenty years ago the ‘National Attitudes to Mental Illness Report’ was established. This annual survey, funded by the Department of Health, was devised to monitor changes in public opinion, recognised at the time to be primarily driven by misunderstanding and stigma. On World Mental Health Day 2014, the latest in a series of encouraging figures […]
Parkinson’s Disease and Being Human: Through a Lens
‘Over the Hill’ at Create Gallery New England House New England Street, Brighton, BN1 4GH until 17 October Tim Andrews was working as a solicitor when he was diagnosed in 2006 with Parkinson’s Disease and was obliged to retire. The following year he responded to an ad in Time Out for ‘real-life’ nude models – […]
Beautiful Science at the British Library: A Review by Isobel Elstob
We are delighted to publish this guest review by Isobel Elstob who visited the Beautiful Science Exhibition at the British Library for Medical Humanities. The exhibition is showing until 26 May 2014. Review of Beautiful Science: Picturing Data, Inspiring Insight Folio Society Gallery, British Library 20th February – 26th May, 2014 Isobel […]
To Have Been What I Always Am, So Changed From What I Was: Reflections on Altered States and Beckett
London is currently home to productions of four Samuel Beckett plays. A trilogy – Not I, Footfalls and Rockaby – performed by the extraordinary Lisa Dwan, is at the Royal Court Theatre in advance of a transfer to the Duchess Theatre. Across town, Juliet Stevenson takes on the role of Winnie in Happy Days […]
Guest Piece: Joseph Ting: “Medicine Now, at the Wellcome Collection London: Obesity, The Body, Malaria and Genomes”.
Medicine Now, a permanent exhibition at the Wellcome Collection in London, presents a range of ideas about science and medicine since Sir Henry Wellcome’s death in 1936. Designed to broaden engagement with medical science beyond the narrow confines of the laboratory or clinic, Medicine Now presents a cogent multidisciplinary view of four topics, Obesity, The […]
Ayesha Ahmad: On ‘Mask:Mirror:Membrane’, an exhibition by Deborah Padfield
A recent viewing at the Menier Gallery of Deborah Padfield’s ‘Mask: Mirror: Membrane’ exhibition of images produced from experiences of facial pain, plunged my own experience into that of the perceiver of pain. In collaboration with Professor Joanna Zakrzewska, facial pain patients, and clinicians from UniversityCollege London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Deborah Padfield asked an […]