TUBES, CORDS AND WINGED NEEDLES by Clare Park
“My medication becomes ready and steady and apo-go enabling the choice of dyskinesia or ‘freezing’. Whichever way I chose, there is a thick fuzzy blanket over my brain and body.” (text by Buz Williams )
The striking images of Buz Williams, who has had Parkinson’s for 31 years, form a narrative photographic study developed over the past eighteen years within a context of its creators’ personal lives and shared professional backgrounds of theatre, movement and dance.
Clare, who won the Royal Photographic Society’s 153rd International Print Exhibition, exhibits her collaborative work Breaking Form; Buz and Parkinson’s at The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery.
The NHNN which brings together specialists, researchers and patients, their families and carers, aims to share developments in the world of Parkinson’s, particularly in the field of treatment innovation. Buz has had a relationship with the hospital since 1980. Placing himself in the public sphere and gaze gives Buz a sense of power and self-recognition at a time when control is diminishing in his everyday life.
Runs March 25 – June 14, 2011
Open 9am–5pm Mon-Fri (lectures depending)
The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
33 Queen Square
London WC1N 3BG
Switchboard: 0845 155 5000