Reassembling the Self

Susan Aldworth recently appointed as Artist in Residence at the Institute of Neuroscience at Newcastle University, is internationally acclaimed for her innovative portraiture inspired by her explorations of contemporary neuroscience and what it means for understanding human identity.

She has created Reassembling the Self a unique project set in the North East that aims to explore and address through art the many public misconceptions and prejudices associated with schizophrenia. Local people diagnosed with schizophrenia have had the unique opportunity to work Susan in a series of workshops, making their own portraits for public exhibitions that will run concurrently at the Hatton Gallery and Vane Gallery in Newcastle in September 2012.

Susan created this project in collaboration with clinicians and basic scientists at the IoN. Aldworth's own 'statement piece' from the project - a film that explores and responds to the schizophrenic experience - will be exhibited along with the patients' artworks. Aldworth has recently been awarded an Arts Council Grant to work with Stanley Jones MBE at the Curwen Studio to make a suite of lithographic prints for the exhibition. For more information about Susan and her work click here

The Curwen Studio on Monday 3 October as our first new print rolled off the press

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