Angela Palmer’s scan of her brain at the National Galleries of Scotland

In this episode of Your Art, Unlocked, writer and journalist Susan Mansfield visits the National Galleries of Scotland to unlock a very intimate self portrait (artuk.org/discover/artworks/brain-of-the-artis…) by Angela Palmer.
What would it be like to take a long hard look at your own brain? Brain of the Artist is a series of cross sections of Palmer’s brain made by an MRI scanner and etched onto 16 sheets of glass. But how exactly was it made, and why?
Join Susan as she chats to Imogen Gibbon, Head of Portraiture and Photography and Chief Curator at the National Galleries of Scotland, about what makes this work such an unusual portrait, and hear from Angela Palmer about why she finds the brain so endlessly fascinating.
This is your art in your museums and galleries, so let’s get to know it a little better.
Your Art, Unlocked is produced by Art UK and supported by Bloomberg Connects.
Producers: Imelda Barnard and Maria Clara Montoya