'Saving Faces' Art Exhibition & Talk
Event Information
Description
*** Doors open at 6:30pm for a 7:00pm start for ALL our events ***
"About Face" launch event: "Saving Faces" art exhibition and talk with Professor Iain Hutchison.
Join us for this evening which launches the "About Face" seminar season. Consultant Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon, Professor Hutchison, will introduce us to the charity Saving Faces and the paintings by Mark Gilbert, commissioned to raise awareness of their important work.
There will be plenty of time to peruse the paintings and specimens, from 6:30pm, before Professor Hutchison's talk.
“About Face” is a multidisciplinary series of events focusing on the face in a medical-humanities arena. The delicate ontological balancing act between life and death, public display and spectacle, ‘being’ and ‘not being’, and how we identify, are some of topics which inspired “About Face” at QMUL’s Pathology Museum. From the first recorded facial surgery in approximately 600 BC to the present, faces have been moulded, manipulated and even made from scratch. Why is this part of the physical body considered our ‘identity’ and what does that mean? In the world of the selfie, are our faces even our selves? What do we see when we look at the faces of others? Does our opinion change depending on the face? Why?
Topics included in this series include face transplants, ‘faces of fear’, facial surgery then and now, death masks and the forensic reconstruction of a skull from this collection. All events include wine, non-alcoholic drinks and nibbles, as well as a chance to see the "Saving Faces" paintings by Mark Gilbert. Full list of the A/W 2018 events is HERE
Professor Iain Hutchison is Honorary Consultant Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon at St Bartholomew’s and Royal London Hospitals, and Honorary Chief Executive Saving Faces -The Facial Surgery Research Foundation.
FAQs
Are there ID or minimum age requirements to enter the event?
In order to be given alcohol you must be 18. To attend the lecture, you must be 16 years old minimum (but inform the organiser first)
What are my transport/parking options for getting to and from the event?
Tube stations: Barbican, Farringdon and St Pauls. Map and parking information is on our organiser page (scroll down) and website (www.qmul.ac.uk/pathologymuseum)
What's the refund policy?
Refunds only given up to 48 hours before the event.
Do I have to bring my printed ticket to the event?
No - we will have a printed guestlist
Organiser Pathology Museum (Queen Mary)
Organiser of 'Saving Faces' Art Exhibition & Talk
Pathology Museum WEBSITE
**Please bring ID to receive alcohol at events**
Refunds/exchanges for evening events may be offered at the discretion of the Pathology Museum only if requested 48 hours before ticket sales end. (This doesn't include cancelled events which are automatically refunded.) For Taxidermy and other weekend workshops it is ONE WEEK before.
Prior to the appointment of Carla Valentine as the current Technical Curator, the museum was in a state of disarray. As medical teaching changed, the need for the study of anatomy and pathology pots declined. Without funding the pots and the infrastructure of the building suffered and it wasn't until a couple of years ago that a donation was secured to renovate the collection. New ways to ensure the survival of the collection were also trialled, including conferences and events.
The Pathology Museum, a part of Queen Mary University of London, is a medical-humanities hub and venue for public engagement and education. Our events showcase research and the arts from our own institution as well as other universities, independant researchers and other museums. Our activities are in accordance with Human Tissue Authority recommendtions on Public Display of medical collections, and the University Museums Group guidance, and are sensitive to the dignity of the collection.
As it is part of Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, the museum is based within St Bartholomews which is a teaching hospital. Therefore, follow the signs for the Robin Brook Centre and go through the open entrance indicated below. You'll find the museum on the 3rd floor:
