gallery of wonder gallery and research facility (www.galleryofwonder.co.uk) presents:
sci-ents? sci-aint by sean burn. private view 5.30 -7.00pm tuesday 16th november

The foyer entrance to the Fine Art Building, The Quadrangle, Newcastle University. NE1 7RU . Exhibition dates: 16th November – 20th December 2010. On view 24-7

sean burn a writer, performer and outsider artist with a growing international reputation. he is also actively involved nationally in disability arts. he was shortlisted for a dadafest disability arts award 2009 and is currently outside in artist in residence to the new gallery walsall in association with dash (disability arts shropshire) where he is reclaiming the languages of lunacy. this suite of work – sci-ents? sci-aint! – is a challenge to psychiatry, a privileged form of storytelling and not a science and is based on his own long history as frequently (enforced) mental health service-user.

The Gallery of Wonder is curated by Irene Brown and is a conference point and exhibition facility for research into the evocation of wonder. Fundamentally understood as a contemporary gallery it invites exploration into the potential of visual display to provoke enquiry and stimulate innovative associations. Its aim is to encourage the questioning of the conventional relationships between art and science, gallery and museum. Comprised of two large oak and glass display cabinets built into the windows of the Fine Art Building in Newcastle University, overlooking the beautiful Victorian Quadrangle, the Gallery of Wonder extends an open invitation to artists, scientists, writers and researchers to engage with and contribute to this

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