Dunedin School of Art head of sculpture Michele Beevors
with her work The Anatomy Lesson - Horse and Rider,
after Stubbs in the "Suture Self" exhibition. Photo by
Stephen Jaquiery.
The strands between art and medicine were put under the
microscope in Dunedin yesterday.
A symposium and two art exhibitions examined the commonality
between the two.
"We wanted to highlight the links between art and medicine,"
Dunedin School of Art head of sculpture Michele Beevors said.
"There are a lot of things, like anatomy, imagery and
disease, that are studied by art students and medicine
students."
A life-size, hand-knitted work in the "Suture Self"
exhibition of stitch-based art, The Anatomy Lesson - Horse
and Rider, after Stubbs, took Beevors two years to
complete.
"It's very popular. People love it. They want to pat it."
The work recently featured at the Articulate Project Space in
Sydney and took a day to assemble for Suture Self.
The symposium was a collaboration between the Dunedin School
of Art and the University of Otago Faculty of Medicine.
"We have an annual symposium to bring people together from
various disciplines which have something to do with art,"
organiser and art history and theory senior lecturer Peter
Stupples said yesterday.
"Our previous two symposiums have looked at science and law."
A second exhibition, "A Medical Perspective", featured art by
people working in medicine.
- nigel.benson@odt.co.nz
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