2018 © Charlie Murphy/Created Out of Mind
This ‘balance’ series of images record experiences of being ‘tested’ in a laboratory designed to measure changes and instabilities characteristic of some forms of dementia and ‘movement disorders’.
Using light and photographic paper, this series aims to illuminate some of the disorientation, doubts and vulnerability that participants can experience in laboratory testing situations –while also highlighting some of the rarer symptoms of dementia currently poorly recognized or understood.
Images from this series were exhibiteere dat Dundee’s Life Space Gallery as part of ‘Trajectories” 1st Feb-2nd June 2018 developed in partnership with artist Charles Harrison.
Further collaborators contributing to this research project include Professor Brian Day, Amy Peters, Sean Mulcahy / Metro Imaging , with photographic work from team Benjamin Gilbert and Tom Farnetti at Wellcome Collection.
This series forms part of a wider collaborative research project which investigates some of the visual, textual & linguistic metaphors used to describe experiences of dementia through creative experiments, workshops and dialogues with people living with dementia, the people who care for them – and some of the scientists involved in researching their many different impacts.
Capturing their unique perspectives and voices through a wide range of creative processes and media this project aims to challenge public misconceptions, misrepresentations and some of the unhelpful or misleading metaphors frequently used in public discourse.
This work forms part of Charlie Murphy’s Metaphors for the Mind research developed in collaboration with Jane Twigg, artist Charlie Harrison, Dr Hannah Zeilig, Professor Seb Crutch, Pixel Press, Rare Dementia Support groups during her residency with Created Out of Mind’s in the Hub at Wellcome ( 2016 – 2018).