Delighted to be exhibiting as part of this event along side fellow artist Iris Musel and participants on the Losing One's Sense of Self Project.

Arts in Mind is a week-long festival celebrating innovative collaborations between researchers at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) and the creative and cultural sector. It showcases work that explores new ways to improve wellbeing and facilitate a better understanding of mental health, the brain and the mind. 

The festival features over 30 exhibitions, performances, screenings and workshops on topics as diverse as psychological wellbeing in pregnancy to music and images as mood enhancers.

 Injury to the frontal lobe of the brain can cause profound changes to an individual’s personality and identity. Losing one’s sense of self is a collaboration between the IoPPN Department of Basic & Clinical Neuroscience and artists Isla Millar and Iris Musel, which explores these changes by using art as a research tool to help individuals communicate their lived experience. The exhibit includes works by the artists, as well as participants with experience of frontal lobe brain injury.

Presenting my final year work as part of a group exhibition with fellow students from the BA Creative Art & Design Practice (Oxford Brookes).

“Space is a fundamental aspect of the mind” John O’Keefe. 

Where Am I? is a solo exhibition by artist Isla Millar which explores a progression from the physical to the cognitive.

“We orientate ourselves through familiarity with spaces, recognition of landmarks, boundaries and memories of events. Inspired by moving home, this exhibition explores how changes to our physical surroundings disrupt our sense of place and how our mind creates cognitive maps to allow us to navigate our environment and know where we are”.

This solo exhibition is kindly sponsored by the Cupola Gallery and the Sheffield International Artists Book Prize and features work created alongside Isla's winning artist's book.

Cupola Gallery