TIME art exhibition
Time is our affordable art exhibition that captures what it means to be part of the brain tumour community – from 6 April to 15 April 2023 at the Business Design Centre in London. The exhibition will feature photographs, illustrations, paintings, scans and sculptures submitted by the community to help tell the stories of those affected by a brain tumour, as well as artwork from upcoming and renowned artists from around the globe – to help raise awareness of our mission to defeat brain tumours.
Time is our affordable art exhibition that captures what it means to be part of the brain tumour community – from 6 April to 15 April 2023 at the Business Design Centre in London. The exhibition will feature photographs, illustrations, paintings, scans and sculptures submitted by the community to help tell the stories of those affected by a brain tumour, as well as artwork from upcoming and renowned artists from around the globe – to help raise awareness of our mission to defeat brain tumours.
1. Brain Library – 37 x 28.5 cm
2. Neuroplasticity, any which way
– 33 x 31 cm
I have donated the below stained glass panels I have completed during lockdown to the TIME auction in loving memory of Jo Mead, Jo sadly died of a brain tumour in 2018.
Jo was a remarkable woman who cared about people. She went on to train as a nurse after seeing the nursing job up close when visiting me in the Neurosurgical ward at Maudsley Hospital 1985.
Jo trained & worked at Kings Collage Hospital as a staff nurse until 1992. Where I made & installed my In Loving Memory glazing scheme (see below) in Hambledon wings staff conference room in memoradom of Jo & the nursing care administered at Kings.
Jo was a remarkable woman who cared about people. She went on to train as a nurse after seeing the nursing job up close when visiting me in the Neurosurgical ward at Maudsley Hospital 1985.
Jo trained & worked at Kings Collage Hospital as a staff nurse until 1992. Where I made & installed my In Loving Memory glazing scheme (see below) in Hambledon wings staff conference room in memoradom of Jo & the nursing care administered at Kings.
3. Cog-nitions Communication 25 x 21 cm
These pieces were begun during my artistic residency with mental health nurses at London South Bank University 2016-20 and completed over lockdown’s. They are about metaphors of cognition and the brain abilities to recover, learn, perceive & interact with the our environments.
4. Nobody’s Perfect – 22.5 x 27.5 cm
5. Phrenology, what colour is your cognition
– 38.5 x 39.5cm
6. Words, right letters in the right order
- 33.5 x 30.5 cm
7. 50 Shades of Green, the human brain can see 50 different shades of green
– 31.5 x 25.5 cm
8. Blessed are the cracked – 41.5 x 39.5cm Engraved mirror, stained glass.
9. Blessed: Sulcus & Gyrus
- 43 x 34 Cm
Jo Mead, student - staff nurse Kings Collage Hospital 1988 - 92
In Loving Memory glazing scheme by Xavier White (2019).
Mirror, white + textured glasses and lead.
‘In loving Memory’ series has been designed, created, donated in memory of the life saving care the Kings College Hospital and the NHS provides. Xavier White received direct experience from the staff of Kings following a near fatal head injury in 1985.
The far right, In Loving Memory, signature panel, top of page.
My friend Jo Mead would visit me most days in the neurosurgical unit. I was so proud, when she went on to train as a nurse at Kings and work there as a Staff-Nurse till 1992.
Sadly Jo died of a brain tumour in 2018 and this is also In Memoria of her kindness. Also in celebration, of our wonderful National Health Service’s 70th anniversary 1948-2018, and the ethos of Care for All, originating in Nye Bevan’s home town of Tredegar in Wales.
Kings Collage Hospital, originally based at Lincolns Inn Fields 1840. It became the first to teach nursing in 1856.
And re-located to Denmark Hill 1913.
The figure cycling, is Xavier cycling down Denmark Hill to complete his solo Recouperation Across the Nation, I care for the NHS, a solo sponsored cycle form Glasgow to London that Xavier organised in 1988 and 89, and completed with a picnic in Burgess Park.
Mirror, white + textured glasses and lead.
‘In loving Memory’ series has been designed, created, donated in memory of the life saving care the Kings College Hospital and the NHS provides. Xavier White received direct experience from the staff of Kings following a near fatal head injury in 1985.
The far right, In Loving Memory, signature panel, top of page.
My friend Jo Mead would visit me most days in the neurosurgical unit. I was so proud, when she went on to train as a nurse at Kings and work there as a Staff-Nurse till 1992.
Sadly Jo died of a brain tumour in 2018 and this is also In Memoria of her kindness. Also in celebration, of our wonderful National Health Service’s 70th anniversary 1948-2018, and the ethos of Care for All, originating in Nye Bevan’s home town of Tredegar in Wales.
Kings Collage Hospital, originally based at Lincolns Inn Fields 1840. It became the first to teach nursing in 1856.
And re-located to Denmark Hill 1913.
The figure cycling, is Xavier cycling down Denmark Hill to complete his solo Recouperation Across the Nation, I care for the NHS, a solo sponsored cycle form Glasgow to London that Xavier organised in 1988 and 89, and completed with a picnic in Burgess Park.