Whose body is it anyway?
6 - 8.30pm
Royal College of Physicians, 11 St Andrews Place, Regents Park, NW1 4LE

The Bud by Sofie LaytonJoin us to investigate the bodies behind these images. A panel of artists featured in the current exhibition 'Under the Skin', who all work across the fields of art and science, will examine the who, what and where of medical illustration, whilst taking a closer look at how contemporary art approaches these issues.

A consultant radiographer and medical illustration professional will also give us insights into patient consent to imaging and data, developments in the latest imaging technologies, and what these techniques can and can’t reveal about our bodies.

Katie Birkwood, curator of the exhibition, will chair the evening and reflect on these questions, drawing on examples of anatomical illustrations, archival documents and early medical imaging examples featured in the exhibition.

This event will be accompanied by live subtitles provided by Stagetext.

Tickets include a free drink on arrival.

Programme:

6pm: Registration and reception

6.30pm: Short talks and panel discussion

7.45pm: Approximate end of discussion

7.45-8.30pm: Exhibition viewing and cash bar

8.30pm: Close

Book tickets

On the panel:

Photograph of Sofie Layton, artistSofie Layton, artist

Sofie’s work includes installation, site sensitive performance and theatre, and explores time, place, memory, celebrated histories and intimate personal stories through mixed media, textiles and metal with surface printing. Sofie’s practice involves working with lived experiences, distilling stories and finding new ways to communicate experience through art. This interface between artist and the wider community has been an integral element to many of the collaborative projects that she has conceived and created.

 

 

 

 

 

Amanda CouchAmanda Couch, artist

Amanda Couch is an artist, researcher and senior lecturer at the University for the Creative Arts, Farnham. Cutting across media, her art practice and research includes performance, the live and recorded image, print and the book, sculpture, food, participation, and writing. An ongoing obsession with the digestive system, metaphorically and materially, is employed to explore process, processing and embodied ways of knowing and becoming. Aspects of Amanda’s work investigates ways in which the modern world engages with ancient knowledges, especially those of the body and landscape.

 

 

Photgraph of Liz Orton

Liz Orton, artist

 

Liz Orton is a visual artist who works with photography, text and moving image to explore the relationship between images, power and authorship. Her work engages widely with archives, both real and imagined, to explore the tensions between personal and scientific forms of knowledge. Liz is an Associate Lecturer on BA Photography at the London College of Communication, and also teaches at Kings College London. She is an Associate Artist with Performing Medicine, and in 2016 she was the recipient of a Wellcome Trust Arts award for Digital Insides. 

 

 

 

 

Nicola Strickland FRCP, Consultant Radiologist

Professor Strickland is the immediate past President of the Royal College of Radiologists, trained in Natural Sciences and Medicine at the University of Oxford. After gaining Membership of the Royal College of Physicians, she trained in Radiology at Hammersmith Hospital, and is now a Consultant Radiologist at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust in London. Her radiological specialist interests are chest and oncological body imaging, and imaging informatics. She was the Clinical Lead for imaging informatics at Imperial for 23 years.