Beyond Fear: Surgery, Hands, Healing
- Date 10 July 2025 - 11.00 a.m. - 25 July 2025 - 6.00 p.m.
- Location The Barn Gallery, St John's College
Over the last five years Caroline has photographed several patients, before, during and after surgery. She worked in close collaboration with surgeons and their teams at the John Radcliffe Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Oxford, and with the patients and their families.
This exhibition will combine two series of challenging images. The first, taken in 2019 and 2020, was of patients with breast cancer, and was first shown during Photo Oxford 2021. The second, of patients with bone sarcomas, was shown at The Royal College of Surgeons of Dublin, Glasgow and London, in 2024. Images from both series were also juxtaposed with her photographs of details of old master paintings and sculpture from national collections in a book, Beyond Fear, Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2024.
In addition to this, by kind permission of the owner, we are privileged to be able to show two of Barbara Hepworth’s surgical drawings, made in the late 1940s.
The exhibition will be open daily from 11am-6pm.
Beyond Fear