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Six Women Surgeons: Portraits by Jane Brettle
11. Jul - 1. Dec 08 / ended Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of SurgeonsFree admission
10am-5pm Mon-Sat
Leela Kapila, paediatric surgeon, by Jane Brettle, 2008
Edinburgh photographer Jane Brettle is best known for her striking portraits of women who are innovators in their various professions. Her latest commission covers six of Britain's leading women surgeons. Inspired by the French painter Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867), her portraits echo the conventions of formal portraiture to prompt the viewer to consider how subjects for institutional portrait collections are chosen and who might have been missing from the faces on the wall.
Exhibition on display in the Inner Hall corridor from Thursday 11 July to Monday 1 December, open daily except Sunday, 9am - 6pm
http://www.rcseng.ac.uk/museums/exhibitions/six_women_surgeons
