Organisation: Medicine Unboxed
Condensed Biography: Since 2009, the Medicine Unboxed project has been bringing together the public, health professionals, politicians and artists to engage in a discussion about the values, beliefs, language and voices that inform medicine.
Location: London, UK
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Artwork#1: Xograms by HUGH TURVEY @ Medicine Unboxed 2012: BELIEF – The Exhibition
Genre: photography, x-ray photography
Description: If seeing is believing, then HUGH TURVEY, artist in residence at the British Institute of Radiology, helps us suspend our disbelief. Hugh is an artist looking for transparency in a ‘smoke and mirrors’ world of spin and media manipulation. He is fascinated by what is hidden and, in focusing on the spaces in between, his Xograms make the everyday appear uncommon, debunking the myth that beauty is only skin deep.
Website: http://www.x-rayartist.com/xogram
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Artwork#2: Sophie de Oliveira Barata from the Alternative Limb project @ Medicine Unboxed 2014: FRONTIERS
Genre: prosthetics, design
Description: Alternative Limb Project takes an artistic approach to prosthetic limb design to create unique and personalised limbs for amputees.
Website: http://www.thealternativelimbproject.com/
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Quote: The Medicine Unboxed Creative Prize champions a less reductive, less consumerist view of illness and medicine – and the human fragility that underlies both.
Our intention is, in the words of Francis Bacon, “to deepen the mystery”, by celebrating an authentic creative connection between art and medicine.
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