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| Exhibitions The Art Gallery at the Royal Pump Rooms organises five or six temporary exhibitions a year of historic and contemporary art, craft, social history and the history of medical science. These are often in collaboration with artists, makers, social historians and other professional individuals or organisations and include touring exhibitions. Projects include: Jane Dixon: Parallel Objects 3 March - 16 April 2001 Jane Dixon's haunting drawings of medical equipment and protective clothing are powerful reminders of vulnerability of the human body and the physical restraints we inflict upon it.
The exhibition was organised in association with Kettle's Yard and Jane Dixon. Post Mortem, Sir Bernard Spilsbury and forensic science 1 February - 30 March 2003 Spilbury was a leading 20th century forensic pathologist who was born and brought up in Leamington Spa. He gave vital evidence in some of the most sensational trials of the early 20th century including that of Dr Crippen and introduced the murder bag for use at crime scenes. Jordan Baseman - Circulate 14 September - 10 November 2002 In 2002 Jordan Basemen was commissioned by the Art Gallery at the Royal Pump Rooms and Wysing Arts to work as artist in residence at Papworth hospital, near Cambridge. There he witnessed the work of Mr Francis Wells, one of Britain's leading heart surgeons and created two remarkable films mediating on life, death, religion and the body. Medicate 14 September - 10 November 2002
Medicate is a major new collection of contemporary art, funded by a £50,000 grant from the medical research charity The Wellcome Trust for the Art Gallery at the Royal Pump Rooms. The collection which examines our relationship with medical science includes work by Keith Coventry, Damien Hirst, Tania Kovats, Alexa Wright and Lyndall Phelps. Melanie Coleman - Health & Beauty February 2001-August 2002 A showcase exhibition of jewellery by Melanie Coleman on display in the Medical Museum, at the Royal Pump Rooms in Leamington Spa. Jason Oddy 27 April - 23 June 2002 Jason Oddy's clinical photographs of the interiors of sanatorium, the UN heaquarters, morgues explore buildings whose architecture seeks to order or control human lives. William Cobbing 17 January - 29 February 2004 William Cobbing's sculptures and photographs lead us into a sci-fi world in which buildings and machines merge with the humans who created them. This dependence on man on machine/architecture can be seen to echo the experiences of former medical patients at the Royal Pump Rooms, where electro-therapy machines and bubbling waters were used to cure their ills and ease their pain. Taking In Water 19 November 2004 - January 2005 This exhibition of work by British and International artists explores our relationship with water as life giver and life taker, a source of pleasure and danger.
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