ME, MY BRAIN AND I
Theatrical effects artist Schoony has created life-size fabricated brain sculptures for participating artists to use as a blank canvas, as we ask them to consider what their brain means to them.
Alex Echo, who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s in early 2020, is among the world-class artists who have designed a brain sculpture in their own distinctive style. Other artists include Tracey Emin, Gavin Turk, David Bailey, D*Face and Conrad Shawcross.
5. Abigail Fallis
BrainanaBirch plywood, acrylic paint, metal, cast resin brain, 34 x 20 x 14 cm.
Estimate:£2,000 - 20,000
11. Hayden Kays
Brain DeadEngraved brass plaque, cast resin brain encased in solid wood casket, 14.2 x 30.5 x 19.6 cm.
Estimate:£2,000 - 20,000
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- Tracey EminQuietly sitting here painting a brain, it’s sort of naïve of me but I never realised how actually sexy a brain is, intuitively I’ve always known it, because the people I find the most sexually stimulating make me laugh, they catch me.
2. Tracey Emin CBE RA
You fuck my brains out every timeAcrylic paint on cast resin brain, 9.5 x 17 x 14 cm.
Estimate:£2,000 - 20,000
8. Schoony
Brain Glitch3D printed light sensitive resin brain mounted on wood with acrylic rod, 40.5 x 33 x 21.5 cm.
Estimate:£2,000 - 20,000
Tracey Emin
Tracey Emin, CBE, RA is best known for her autobiographical and confessional artwork. Emin produces work in a variety of media including drawing, painting, sculpture, film, photography, neon text and sewn appliqué.
Schoony
Schoony exploded onto the London art scene in 2008, thanks to an extensive street art installation composed of his hyper-realistic plastic sculptures.
Alex Echo
In 2019, Alex Echo was diagnosed with Parkinson’s. He had experienced symptoms for around 7 years, including feeling off balance and small tremors. His GP reassured him he was just getting older. It wasn’t until one day Alex woke up and wasn’t even able to write his own name, then he knew he needed a second opinion.
Read more about Alex’s story, here.
I wanted to create a work that explored the fragility and softness of the body and mind - something that visually explored how fragile this connection between the two can be.
- LUAP
David Bailey
David Bailey is a photographer and director, most widely known for his fashion photography and portraiture and his role in shaping the image of the Sixties.
He began his career in 1959 as a fashion photographer. After beginning work with Vogue, Bailey was shooting covers within months and at the height of his productivity, he shot 800 pages of Vogue editorial in one year for their editions all over the world.
Rob and Nick Carter
Silver Lining (2021) is a sculpture made by Rob and Nick Carter for the exhibition Me, My Brain & I, which will go into auction in support of the charity Parkinson’s UK, a cause close to the Carter’s hearts.
The silver recalls the duo’s practice of the exploration of light, colour and form, and is inspired by the proverb ‘every cloud has a silver lining’- it was made to instil signs of hope in what seems to otherwise be a negative situation.
Otherwise known as an “ice cream headache”, we’ve all suffered the fate of too much too quick. Luckily it only ever lasts a few seconds and you’re back to shovelling more ice cream in.
- D*Face
3. D*Face
Brain FreezeAcrylic and Enamel based paints on moulded resin and wood, 13 x 26 x 28 cm.
Estimate:£2,000 - 20,000
6. Dion Kitson
Football BrainCast resin brain inside football mounted on wooden base, 19 x 26 x 26 cm.
Estimate:£2,000 - 20,000
Dion Kitson
Dion Kitson is a British artist whose work spans sculpture, film, collage, installation and painting. Kitson uses his work to reflect pathos in everyday life, it is playful and pertinent to the present political climate and representations of a working-class culture.
Gavin Turk
Turk’s installations and sculptures deal with issues of authorship, authenticity and identity. Concerned with the ‘myth’ of the artist and the ‘authorship’ of a work, Turk’s engagement with this modernist, avant-garde debate stretches back to the ready-mades of Marcel Duchamp.
Conrad Shawcross
Imbued with an appearance of scientific rationality, Conrad Shawcross’ sculptures explore subjects that lie on the borders of geometry and philosophy, physics and metaphysics.
Our brains curate our lives, on the one hand acting as unique libraries, holding memories, experiences and skills, while on the other powering supercomputer-powered curiosity, creativity and innovation.
- Parkinson's UK Director of Fundraising & Engagement, Paul Jackson-Clark
4. Gavin Turk
She sells sea shells on the sea shoreFound object and display case
Estimate:£2,000 - 20,000
9. Conrad Shawcross
TricameralMixed media and cast resin brain, 76 x 42 x 42 cm.
Estimate:£2,000 - 20,000
