Anatomising a Portrait: An Epileptic Journey - Saturday, May 21st 22:00 on BBC Radio 3

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"Anatomising a Portrait: An Epileptic Journey

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May 21st Saturday, 22:00 on BBC Radio 3

Epilepsy affects 1 in 200 people but there are many public misconceptions and prejudices about the condition. In recent years neuroscience has begun to find out more about the brain's activities, and now it is possible to hear the sound of a brain having a fit. The sound of epilepsy is not a jagged rasping, not spikes of sound - but more like the sound of whale song, a plaintive cry for help, a call in the wild. How does an artist go about creating a work of art to reflect this?
Artist Susan Aldworth has been commissioned to make a series of artworks reflecting epilepsy for both St Thomas' Hospital in Westminster and the National Portrait Gallery; and in the pursuit of one portrait in particular she has placed centre-stage her close friend Max Eilenberg"

See some of her work

Guy Morgan