About this Event
Dab Hands Studio Seminar
Join us for a relaxed day of workshops and presentations unpicking the relationship that we build with our hands.
A one-day interactive event primarily for medical practitioners and students, art educators, artists and craftspeople with an interest in exploring the areas where medical and art practice intersect.
Human hands are remarkably sophisticated and adaptable tools, unparalleled in the natural world for the breadth of their capability. From the eloquent finesse of a sign language user, to the nimble picking of a Spanish guitar, the speedy reactions of a teenage texter, or the life-saving precision of microsurgery: our hands are truly phenomenal instruments. Whatever use we put them to, they act as our primary interface with the physical world and with each other. We use our hands to nurture, to love, to pray, to dance, to calm, to fight, to cling, to create, to connect.
Keynote Speaker: Donald Sammut, FRCS, Consultant Hand Surgeon and Artist
Donald Sammut is a Plastic Surgeon entirely specialised in Hand Surgery. He is an educator, for many years teaching and mentoring many trainees and junior Consultants both in the UK and abroad, particularly in Italy and in Nepal. He is passionate about the Hand, its language, its choreography, the way it deals with the world and how its anatomy enables it to do so.
Art is an integral part of his work from the outpatients clinic where he records his patients’ hands in drawings, and operative plans, to the operating theatre – his operative records are mostly in the form of annotated drawings. He also teaches anatomy and his many online anatomical drawings and paintings have long found their way into publication and teaching.rt is an integral part of his work from the outpatients clinic where he records his patients’ hands in drawings, and operative plans, to the operating theatre – his operative records are mostly in the form of annotated drawings. He also teaches anatomy and his many online anatomical drawings and paintings have long found their way into publication and teaching.
Art is an integral part of his work from the outpatients clinic where he records his patients’ hands in drawings, and operative plans, to the operating theatre – his operative records are mostly in the form of annotated drawings. He also teaches anatomy and his many online anatomical drawings and paintings have long found their way into publication and teaching.
Both Surgery and Art depend, at a very essential level, on seeing and on listening. In Donald’s practice these processes merge and this presentation will show how one feeds on the other and how his art informs the many facets of his clinical practice.
Donald’s collection of anatomical drawings and paintings, available in the galleries on his website, inspired the Dab Hand embroidered sculpture, That’ll need Stitching. He has also illustrated entirely non-scientific works, several volumes of poetry by Louis de Bernières.
Biography and portfolio of images athttps://www.donaldsammut.com
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Presentations by
Professor James Thompson, Author, Care Aesthetics: For Artful Care and Careful Art
Professor James Thompson leads a project in Drama at Manchester University called Care Aesthetics: Research Exploration (CARE).
CARE asks what happens when we consider care a craft or artful practice. The project explores how sensory and embodied practices of care can improve care services and change the quality of socially engaged arts practices.
Lucy Burscough, Artist and Arts for Health Practitioner, The Dab Hands Project
Dab Hands celebrates the extraordinary relationship that we have with our hands and the value of the manual skills that can be acquired by repetition and practice, whilst acknowledging the grief and frustration that can disrupt that relationship when illness, trauma, or old age affects our dexterity.
The Dab Hands Collection was created in residence at Manchester Museum by Lucy Burscough and her collaborative partners. It is funded by Arts Council England/The National Lottery and Manchester Museum.
Along with inspiring creative workshops and performances.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Top Floor, Manchester Museum, Oxford Road, Manchester, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00
