A BODY OF RELATIONS
The Way of the Artist at Work
Life class workshop performance at the Wellcome Collection, London on 26th February 2010, responding to the photograph by John Thomson titled “A Painter at Work” 1817 in Wellcome Library archives, configured using the drawing exercise ‘The Copy’ in which participants copy the drawing in front of them.
Part of the "China: Birth and Belonging" conference Wellcome Collection, London.
Special Thanks to Rosie Tooby and the staff at Wellcome Collection, Sally Lai at Chinese Arts Centre.
Photography by Jonathan Purcell.
https://wellcome.ac.uk/press-release/china-birth-and-belonging
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“A Painter at Work”, photograph by John Thomson, 1817
L0055677 Credit: Wellcome Library, London
Hong Kong. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
1869 By: J. Thomson
Size: glass ca. 10.5 x 21.5 cm. (4 x 8 in.)
Collection: Iconographic Collections
Full Bibliographic Record Link to Wellcome Library Catalogue