Event overview
Part of the Centre of the Body's 'Events Summer 2014' supported by the Wellcome Trust
John Matthews is a theatre-maker and the author of Training for Performance and Anatomy of Performance Training. His edited collection, A Life of Ethics and Performance has just been reprinted in paperback and he is the recent recipient of an Arts and Humanities Research Council Fellowship for his research into performer training. John received the University of London Award for Excellence in the Field of Drama and, as Research Fellow of the Stanislavski Centre, he taught at Rose Bruford College of Theatre & Performance. His professional credits include productions at South Bank Centre, Pleasance Theatre and Theatre 503 as well as BBC Film Drama and John teaches professional workshops in training techniques at Theatre Royal.
Dawn Kemp is a freelance curator based in London. She was previously Curator/Manager of the National Museums of Scotland's National Museum of Flight and, for seven years, the Director of Heritage of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, which holds Scotland's largest medical collection. She has curated over 15 major exhibitions including: Anatomy Acts (co-curated with Prof Andrew Patrizio), nominated for the Gulbenkian Prize, the UK's largest museums and galleries award. She has recently served as Acting Director of the Freud Museum London, where she curated the exhibition and public events season: Mad, Bad and Sad: Women and the Mind Doctors and curated the re-display of the Anna Freud Room.
She is the author and editor of several books related to the history of medical collections including: Anatomy Acts: How We Come to Know Ourselves (winner of the Society of Authors and Royal Society of Medicine's Medical Book of the Year 2007), Conan Doyle and Joseph Bell: The Real Sherlock Holmes and Surgeons Hall: A Museum Anthology.
She is currently developing international exhibition proposals linked to the history of the Scottish Women's Hospitals in the First World War and to the 160th anniversary of Sigmund Freud's birth in 2016.
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Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 4 Jun 2014 | 6:15pm - 8:00pm |
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