We were enjoying and discussing the wonderful entrants and winners in this years Brain Art Competition run by the blog The Neuro Bureau.
As it turns out, one of our multi-talented noisters, Paula, was a finalist in an art competition a few years back that had a theme around ‘pain and pleasure’ and brains.
Her work, which adorns the top of this post, started with an MRI scan that was screen printed onto canvas and then hand embroidered. Not that I’m biased, but I reckon if Paula had entered the Neuro Bureau comp, she may well have had a good tilt at the winners.
-Tim Cocks
Get up to date and get your creative think on at a noigroup course or immerse yourself in some brainy books with Explain Pain 2nd Edition or The Graded Motor Imagery Handbook.
I love these embroidered images too- you can touch them, sense them and there is something special about hands constructing a brain.
We often struggle with artisitic representations of modern views of how a brain might work. Three dimensional collective activity is not easy to show. Let us know if you have any ideas or examples.
David
how about flagging up Betsan’s work here…http://www.stitchlinks.com/research1.html
Betsan told me about a researcher and knitter who knitted a brain …… similar to this http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4245919/Psychiatrist-knits-anatomically-correct-woolly-brain.html
or in Aus Neural knitworks http://yourbrainhealth.com.au/brain-knitting/
inspiration may lead to this …….http://9bytz.com/brain-hat/
A lovely knitted brain to keep the head warm …..