Medical Arts Lectures & Teaching

Talks & Lectures

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2017 Visiting lecturer Head and Neck Anatomy (Portraiture) Course

'Facial Difference & Identity'

Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University

2017 Digital Futures: Health Re-envisioned

Invited guest speaker, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

2017 Medical Artists Association Conference

Invited guest speaker, Charles Darwin House, London

2016 Clinical Humanities Society

Invited guest speaker, King's College London

2016 Visiting lecturer Head and Neck Anatomy (Portraiture) Course

'CLEFT': An Arts Initiative

Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University

2016 Next Steps: Dental Research Conference

          Invited guest speaker . Hamilton House, Bristol

2016 Reconstructive Prosthetics South West Research Day

          Invited guest speaker. Southmead Hospital

2016 Art and Humanities in the Medical Curriculum

         'CLEFT: A Therapeutic Arts Programme'

           University of Bristol

2015 Visiting lecturer Head and Neck Anatomy (Portraiture) Course

'Reconstruct and Regenerate'

Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University

2015 Grand Round

'Medicine through artistic avenues'

South Bristol Academy, University Hospitals Bristol

2015 Drawing Medicine 

'Taking art and medicine beyond the curriculum'

Anatomy Department, University of Bristol Medical School

2014 The Romantic Disease: An Artistic Investigation of Tuberculosis

'The importance of art in medical education'

Waterman's Gallery, London

2014 Visiting lecturer Head and Neck Anatomy (Portraiture) Course

'Reconstruct and Regenerate'

Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University

2012 Plastic Viscera - Interdisciplinary Art/Science Symposium

'Plastic Viscera'

Brighton and Sussex Medical School & The Blond McIndoe Research Foundation

2011 Art and Medicine Symposium

'Medicine through an artistic paradigm'

Brighton and Sussex Medical School

2011 Brighton Science Festival Speaker

'Flesh and wax: rediscovering the ceroplastic artists'

Brighton Science Festival

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Teaching and workshops 

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2018 On the Fabric of the Human Body

          Collaborating artist. 2 day cross disciplinary workshop with scholars and artists exploring the anatomical Cole Collection

         Health Humanities Centre, University of Reading

2018 K+ Outreach

Arts workshop for prospective clinical students, King's College London

2018 Clinical Humanities: Thinking Outside the Box for Health and Healthcare

          Tutor on Year 2 KCL MBBS course exploring creative problem solving in General Practice

2017 Facial Difference and Identity: Creative, Clinical and Academic Perspectives

Co-lead SSC Course, University of Bristol Medical School  

2017 K+ Outreach

Arts workshop for prospective clinical students, King's College London

2016 CLAPA (Cleft Lip and Palate Association) East of England activity day

Arts day for young people with cleft lip and palate, Cambridge

2016 Cleft arts residency wax sculpture workshops

Above and Beyond supported art workshops exploring the use of wax facial sculpture for young people with cleft lip and palate. In collaboration with artist Eleanor Crook and Dr Julia Cadogan (Clinical Psychologist).

The Island Gallery, Bristol

2016 A Cleft in Time: Public Workshops at 'The Oral Emporium'

MOUTHY Season educational art workshops exploring narratives of young people with cleft palate 

Science Gallery London, King's College London

2016 A Cleft in Time: KHP Summer School Workshop

MOUTHY Season educational art workshop exploring narratives of young people with cleft palate 

Science Gallery London, King's College London

2016 A Cleft in Time: Oasis School Outreach Workshop

MOUTHY Season educational art workshop exploring narratives of young people with cleft palate

Science Gallery London, King's College London

2016 CLAPA (Cleft Lip and Palate Association) art workshop with the Young Person's Council

Art workshop using craft to explore identity and personality for young people with cleft lip and palate

CLAPA, London

2015 'Drawing Medicine' invited tutor

Dissection Room Art - Medical Student Selected Component

University of Bristol

2012 Anatomy for Artists Course

Devised, co-ordinated and taught a full day practical anatomical course for artists

Phoenix Gallery Brighton

2012 Director 'Plastic Viscera' Symposium

Devised and co-ordinated full day interdisciplinary art & science symposium

Brighton and Sussex Medical School  & The Blond McIndoe Research Foundation

2012 'Reconstruct, Regenerate' - Sculpture Workshop

Devised full day plastic surgery sculpture workshop including forensic facial reconstruction

With thanks to sculptor Eleanor Crook & Plastic Surgeon Mr Charles Nduka

Phoenix Gallery Brighton

2008-2012 Dissection room anatomical art workshops

Devised, co-ordinated and taught anatomy in the dissection room through art to medical students and the wider university community. Additional collaborators included the Facial Surgery Research Foundation (Saving Faces)

Brighton and Sussex Medical School

2012 Anatomical body painting 

Collaborative performance art piece teaching the public anatomy through art

Brighton Science Festival and White Night Festival

2010 BioArk initiative

Art and science teaching for the public in collaboration with Anna Dumitriu

University of Sussex

2009 'Living Anatomy' - Community arts initiative

Teaching children anatomy through anatomical arts activities

London 2012 Cultural Olympiad, Brighton 

2009 Tutor: Life Drawing Workshops

Devised, co-ordinated and taught life drawing classes with a nude model

Brighton and Sussex Medical School

 

Conference presentations

 

2017 Craniofacial Society of Great Britain & Ireland Conference

'A Cleft in Time’: An Arts Project Exploring Narratives of Cleft & Psychological Wellbeing.'

Sage, Newcastle

2016 European Association of Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery (EACMFS) Conference

London

2016 British Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (BAOMS) Junior Trainees Conference

'Maxfax experience through an artistic paradigm' & 'An artist residency in wartime trauma and healing'

Royal College of Surgeons, Glasgow 

2015 Anatomical Society Conference

'An artist residency in wartime trauma and healing'

Magdelene College, University of Cambridge

2011 Anatomical Society Conference

'The Unnecessary Research of Art and Anatomy: Education through an artistic paradigm'

University of Cardiff

2011 Art and Medicine Conference, University of Otago Medical School

          'The Unnecessary Research of Art and Medicine'

Dunedin School of Art & the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners, Dunedin New Zealand

2011 Virtual Futures Conference

'Grow me a new face: Emerging biotechnology in facial reconstructive surgery'

University of Warwick

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Panelist

 

2014 The Romantic Disease: An Artistic Investigation of Tuberculosis

World TB Day Symposium: Anna Dumitriu

Waterman's Gallery, London

2013 Be Receptive 

Art/Science Symposium 

Brighton and Sussex Medical School

2011 Laboratory Life

Interdisciplinary Art/Science Laboratory

Lighthouse with the Arts Catalyst and the Wellcome Trust, Brighton

2010 Brighton Photo Fringe Festival keynote exhibition

Phoenix Gallery, Brighton