The Campaign for Drawing, University College London and Bow Arts Trust present:
Drawing on Life at Wellcome Collection
Friday 26 September (19.00-22.00)
Saturday 27 September (11.00-17.00) & University College London
Sunday 28 September (11.00-17.00)
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Join top scientists and leading artists to delve deep into our understanding of the human mind and body in a series of free creative events, workshops and talks suitable for all ages. Drawing on Life is The Big Draw 2008 national launch at Wellcome Collection (Euston Road) London’s innovative and thought-provoking gallery and museum that explores connections between medicine, life and art. This exciting weekend is a joint venture by Bow Arts Trust, the Campaign for Drawing and Wellcome Collection, with partners at Queen Mary, University of London and University College London.
The event coincides with a last chance to see Skeletons: London’s Buried Bones – an exhibition of 26 skeletons from across London, from the Roman occupation to
the 19th Century. What do these bones tell us about how their owners lived and died?
Visitors are invited to explore identity, body image, perception and emotion in a series of workshops where you can craft body maps and campaign slogans on body issues; invent fantastic prosthetics; and create narratives, characters and sets for a Little Theatre of Disease and Desire. Hands-on workshops accompany screenings of short animation films about the life cycle.
Professor Semir Zeki, Director of the Institute of Neuroaesthetics, presents Ambiguities in Art and the Brain, while Professor Arthur Miller, renowned historian of science, compares the thought processes of artists and scientists. In Drawing the Mind, Professor Ray Dolan considers how emotion influences cognition.
On Saturday 27 September, additional activities include life drawing and an opportunity to compose visual scores, hear them performed and join in the premiere of a new musical work, Rhizome for Choir. The all day complementary programme next door at University College London (Gower Street) involves artist Richard Wentworth, such renowned UCL scientists as Professor Steve Jones, and tutors and students from the Slade School of Fine Art.
How to get there
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