'Frissure': a book about a scar. (360G-Wellcome-100165_Z_12_Z)
Following a diagnosis of breast cancer and resulting mastectomy the poet, Kathleen Jamie approached artist, Brigid Collins, 'to be her eyes'. The ensuing sittings and conversations between poet and artist began as an exploration of line, initially Kathleen's mastectomy scar line, but they also became a 'laying down of layers', of reciprocity, of experience and, ultimately, of transformation. These sittings prepared the ground from which a significant body of work began to emerge, consist ing of a series of prose poems and of artworks. At its heart lies a consideration of a particular way of looking. It contrasts the artist's looking with the 'medical gaze'. In these works the subject: the scar, or line, is not the end of the story, but instead it leads out of loss, and back into the natural world, and the beautiful. This work has been developed in association with discussions during Kathleen's fellowship at Durham University's Centre for Medical Humanities which is supp orting the development of an art book entitled 'Frissure'. The book combines the prose poems and the images to create an object of beauty that is intended to explore the disruption of the body and its transformation as a result of surgery.
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Grant Details
Amount Awarded | 4000 |
Applicant Surname | Macnaughton |
Approval Committee | ERG11 Society and Ethics |
Award Date | 2012-07-16T00:00:00+00:00 |
Financial Year | 2011/12 |
Grant Programme: Title | Small grant in H&SS |
Internal ID | 100165/Z/12/Z |
Lead Applicant | Prof Jane Macnaughton |
Partnership Value | 4000 |
Planned Dates: End Date | 2013-02-28T00:00:00+00:00 |
Planned Dates: Start Date | 2012-09-01T00:00:00+00:00 |
Recipient Org: Country | United Kingdom |
Region | North East |