Bobby Baker as Pea, 2003 Courtesy of Bobby Baker
The Performing Medicine Project is delivered by a range of contemporary artists and thinkers working across many art forms. Artists who have worked on the project or who are currently developing work include:
Suzy Willson: Artistic Director
Suzy is co-founder and Artistic Director of the acclaimed
performance company the Clod
Ensemble and has directed all its productions to date including The
Feast During The Plague, Greed, The Silver Swan, Red
Ladies and Double Agency: a collaboration with acclaimed American
company Split Britches.
She teaches drama and movement to students, actors, musicians and doctors
and has run projects for The Royal National Theatre, English National
Opera, The National Gallery, Guy’s Hospital, Glydebourne Youth Opera,
Lambeth Schools, Trinity School of Music and Rio University, Brazil. She
is an Honorary Non-Clinical Senior Lecturer at Barts and The London, Queen
Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of London.
Bobby Baker
Bobby Baker is a performance artist based in London.
During the last three decades she has produced an extensive repetoire
of work principally concerned with an exploration of aspects of daily
life and human behaviour. She has worked in a variety of media including
food, site-specific installation, radio, TV and drawing. Major works include
"An Edible Family in a Mobile Home" 1976, "Packed Lunch"
1979, "Drawing on a Mother's Experience" 1989, "The Daily
Life Series" 1991-2001 - five shows including "Kitchen Show"
1991 and "Box Story"2001. Her work has been shown widely in
the UK and abroad. Her major production "How To Live" was launched
at the Barbican London in 2004. In 2005 Baker was awarded an AHRC Fellowship
in the Creative and Performing Arts with Queen Mary University of London.
www.bobbybakersdailylife.com
Dr Lizzie Burns
Dr Lizzie Burns has always combined an active interest in both science
and art. She gained a doctorate from the Department of Biochemistry at
Oxford University before becoming a full-time artist to work for the UK
Medical Research Council. She has created a large collection of paintings
inspired by biomedical research funded by the MRC. The resulting artwork
has been exhibited in the UK and internationally at the invitation of
the British Council. Her work has been described by the Chief Scientific
Advisor, Sir David King as ‘an exciting, refreshing, optimistic
view of medical sciences in oils. Brilliant’.
She has many years’ experience running art workshops for a wide-range
of ages and abilities. Her recent projects include running an event in
the Science Museum’s Dana Centre.
Sama Fabian
Sama has been practicing Yoga for 23 years and started
teaching in 1985. She has studied with prominent teachers in the field
and investigated the subject in its various expressions : movement and
stillness, breath and rhythm, active psychology and the nature of mind,
the senses and the nature of reality.
In 1999 she created Aurolab Yoga Project - a laboratory for experiential
Yoga.
She runs teacher study and teacher awareness programs in London, Ireland
and Auroville (India). Her ongoing interest in art has led her to collaborations
in dance, performance and film. Most recently with film maker Tanya Syed
on Inland 2004, super16mm colour, 20mn and Incantation 2003, Black and
White 16mm, 7mn.
Emma Govan
Dr Emma Govan is a lecturer in Drama and Theatre at Royal Holloway, University
of London. Courses taught include: Live Art, Medicine and Performance,
Theatre in Health and Care, and Theatre and Therapy. She has published
in the area of suffering and illness in performance and is currently working
on a book exploring Theatre in Health and Care for Palgrave. She is also
a dramatherapist.
Barbara Housemann
Barbara Housemann has worked as a voice and text coach in the theatre
for 25 years. She spent six years in the world renown voice department
of the Royal Shakespeare Company and has written a voice book for actors,
Finding Your Voice. She has also worked as a presentation and communication
skills specialist in the public and private sectors including the Metropolitan
Polic, NHS, Home Office and in the City. She coaches journalists for the
BBC and voiceovers for documentaries and coporate videos.
Lucinda Jarrett: Rosetta Life
Studied English and Theatre at Edinburgh University
before pursuing a career in writing and television. She left the BBC in
1996 to set up Life stories, a project designed to enable the terminally
ill to tell the stories that matter to them and share them with an audience
of their choice. In 2000 Life stories became Rosetta Life, an artist-led
charity with a website www.rosettalife.org. Lucinda is now artistic director
of the charity that runs artist-led residencies in over fifteen specialist
palliative care centres across Britain. Each centre is equipped with multi
media arts equipment enabling hospice users to access the website that
holds online exhibitions and enables a community of hospice users to share
experiences and ideas with an online community.
www.rosetta
life.org
