Crafting Anatomies: Bonington Gallery, Nottingham Trent

摘要

Crafting Anatomies is the final exhibition in a series of shows and events celebrating 170 years of art and design education in Nottingham. Curated by Amanda Briggs-Goode, Rhian Solomon and Katherine Townsend, the exhibition call resulted in 170 responses from the UK, Germany and USA, from which the selection panel composed of fine artist Kashif Nadim Chaudry, footwear concept designer Liz Ciokajlo, and Deborah Dean, the exhibitions manager at Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery, chose 47 designers, clinicians and artists to exhibit their work alongside artifacts from the historical collection of Nottingham City Museum and films from The Wellcome Trust Archive. The exhibits are grouped under the themes of Material, Performance and Identity and bring together personal narratives and collaborative dialogues to offer a complex, and varied response to human anatomy. The exhibition includes a wide range of artifacts from luxury items such as Lee Mattocks' surrealist red handbag, to the bespoke ocular prosthetics of John Pacey-Lowrie, a series of photographs by Karen Ingham which use medical imaging processes to expand the genre of self-portraiture and the customized implants devised by Julian Ellis for use in surgical reconstruction. However, this review will focus on the work of a group of exhibitors who are using technologies to expand the potential of traditional ways of making with textiles, and applications for enhanced wellbeing.