Case Study: Remembering Baby with Sheffield University funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), UK

Case Study 1:
2015 - 2018

Remembering Baby with Sheffield University funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) which was awarded Outstanding Societal Impact Prize.

I have a track record of working within public and private healthcare - working; individually or collaboratively to achieve engaging and novel interpretative creative output from research and to aid dissemination of research within the project’s objectives. We have a great creative infrastructure/network and are flexible to evolve as the project evolves. As you know, I am a pioneer in the aesthetic application of x-ray imagery and have been the Artist in Residence at the British Institute of Radiology since 2009 and was awarded an Honorary Fellowship by the Royal Photographic Society in 2014 for promoting the ‘art of science’. I have lectured at science festivals and institutions, exhibited globally and worked with global brands. I bring this cumulative knowledge and passion to any project...My roles:

• lead artist
  • art direction and steering group member

• formation/management
  • exhibition team (secondary artist, designer, PR, copywriter)
  • exhibition team with research team
  • production team (printers, framers, fabricators)

• sourcing/negotiation
  • London exhibition venue

• production
  • exhibition components and overall exhibition design (website, printed, sound and video)
  • photography/x-rays for design/marketing/social media and PR

• postproduction
  • video for exhibition displays

• supplying/configuring
  • signage media devices for video displays

• outreach
  • deliver workshops, talks, evaluation, interviews and exhibitions

This project also achieved wide reaching PR/Press inc a Radio4 interview.


https://sands.org.uk/about-sands/media-centre/blog/2017/11/art-vehicle-talking-artists-behind-remembering-baby

"Art as a vehicle" - talking to the artists behind the Remembering Baby exhibition | Sands - Stillbirth and neonatal death charity
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The Remembering Baby: Life, Loss and Post-Mortem exhibition is inspired by a research project currently taking place at the University of Sheffield. Funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), this project aims to understand how parent…

Team:
Dr Kate Reed (Project Lead), Dr Julie Ellis (Research Associate) and Dr Elspeth Whitby (Project Co-Investigator) from The University of Sheffield have worked with British Institute of Radiology artist in residence, Hugh Turvey HonFRPS to put together the exhibition. They have teamed up with sound artist Justin Wiggan to develop his Life Echo work as part of the exhibition.