Clare Park to exhibit at National Neurology Hospital

Wednesday 9th of March 2011

Lensmodern member Clare Park will be exhibiting her collaborative work ‘Breaking Form; Buz and Parkinson’s’ at The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery from 25th March to 14th June 2011.
    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.
    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. Currently this progressive condition is incurable and affects 1 in 500 people within the UK.
    The NHNN is located at 33 Queen Square, London WC1 and is open from 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday (lectures depending).
Caption: 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.”  Buz Williams