Skip to main content
Kai-hung Fung 'Web' (detail) 2004
, 3D CT scan printed on photographic paper. Image courtesy the artist.
UNSW Galleries

Body Image

Body Image
  • When 6 Sep - 8 Nov 2014
  • Where
    UNSW Galleries
  • Address
    CNR OXFORD ST & GREENS RD, PADDINGTON NSW 2021
  • Hours
    Tues-Sat, 10am – 5pm
  • Phone
    (02) 8936 0888

'Body Image' reveals new, compelling, arts-led modes of visualising complex scientific and biomedical data. Bringing together art and medical science, the exhibition takes viewers on enthralling visual journeys inside the human body, discovering aspects of blood flow, organ and cellular behaviour. 

The animation and photographs featured use the 3D computer generated imagery techniques employed in the visual effects and animation industries. Integrating art, science, medicine and music, the works in 'Body Image' are designed to increase awareness of medical knowledge and to improve working relationships between healthcare professionals, their patients and the wider public. 

Artists
John McGhee
Kai-hung Fung
Drew Berry
George Poonkhin Khut

—

Curators
Felicity Fenner & Dr John McGhee

'Body Image' is the first of three exhibitions in UNSW Galleries’ 'Signs of Life' exhibition season. 'Amnesia Lab' and 'Quo Vadis: the last drawing show' both open to the public on 20 September.
Please note works in the exhibition are complemented with a selection of scientific specimens of human tissue on loan from UNSW Medicine’s Museum of Human Disease. 

Human tissue specimens are shown in the following exhibition images, viewer discretion is advised. 

 

a93q2018.jpg
 

John McGhee, Flow 2009, and Brain Flow 2013. Installation view, 'Body Image', UNSW Galleries, 2014. Photograph: Britta Campion
 

a93q2059_1.jpg
 

Kai-Hung Fung, Stress 2009, Cisterns 2013 and Teeth 2009. Installation view, 'Body Image', UNSW Galleries, 2014. Photograph: Britta Campion
 

a93q2051_1.jpg
 

Installation view, 'Body Image', UNSW Galleries, 2014. Pictured: Collection, Museum of Human Disease; and, Kai-Hung Fung, Voyage to the heart 2012. Photograph: Britta Campion
 

a93q2070.jpg
 

Drew Berry, Hollow 2012. Installation view, 'Body Image', UNSW Galleries, 2014. Photograph: Britta Campion
 

a93q2077_1.jpg
 

Installation view, 'Body Image', UNSW Galleries, 2014. Pictured: Collection, Museum of Human Disease; and Kai-Hung Fung, Cisterns 2013, and Teeth 2009. Photograph: Britta Campion

 

Public Program

Lecture: Drew Berry
6pm Tuesday 14 October

Drew Berry conducts a public lecture.
 

ABC Interview - Dr John McGhee, 'Body Image' Exhibition, by John McGhee