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| 4 Oct 2025 | |
| Written by Tara Biddle | |
| News of OTs |
The Francis Crick Institute, a leading biomedical research centre in London, has recently welcomed its new Director, Edith Heard. In celebration and recognition of the research they undertake in neurological disease, two of Anthony's large brain-related triptych paintings will be on long-term loan in their seminar area.
Turbulence (2001-6) 173 x 414 cm and Axons II (2002-4)168 x 280 cm explore his fascination with consciousness, memory and brain function.
Both paintings are about movement, energy and activity amongst the brain cells (neurons). They visualise Anthony's imaginings of micro-happenings deep within the brain between the cells as ideas materialise; how they communicate and how messages move along the threadlike fibres that connect the cells (axons) from one to another.
Anthony says "I’m not trying to be scientific in my representations, though I read extensively about brain biology, function and consciousness whilst working on these paintings".
