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Liz Gridley - 'What Do We Learn From Death?' - oil on aluminium
What Do We Learn From Death?
Oil on aluminium by Liz Gridley.
Painting size: 56.2 x 45 cm (22.1" x 17.7")
Frame size: 59.6 x 48.3 (23.5" x 19")
Human bodies have a long history of teaching the living about ourselves - how we work, how we change and how our bodies are pivotal in the entire process of life. The learning process in using human remains has greatly changed (in Australia at least) and continues to develop with new technologies inclusive of organ/tissue donation to the living and enterprising models of ‘ethical anatomy’ for education.
In Australia, whole body donation programs are run through state based, specific university programs and are an option that is popular enough to ensure Australia uses only consenting, donated bodies for medical students & research development.
The link between whole body donation, dissection/prosection, educational resourcing and display is one tightly linked with representation of the body in artistic practice and continues to be a core interest to Liz Gridley’s art practice.