Linton Meagher: Medicine as Art
October 22nd, 2008 by Vanessa Ruiz
A medical practitioner and visual artist, Linton Meagher puts medicine directly into his art by using objects such as pills and scalpels as his medium of choice. His work is beautiful and fluid from far, but up close it’s hard not to wince at the hundreds of sharp scalpel blades that make up his canvas.
Linton’s work explores the ways that objects, such as pills and scalpels, can be taken out of their usual context and presented in a way that challenges the viewer to question their wider meaning in society.
Medical objects are beautiful in their ability to heal but also deadly with misuse. But they almost certainly make for interesting canvases.
View the rest of Linton’s unique work here.
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Howdy. You may like Fred Tomaselli’s work as well. He also uses pills and hallucinogenic herbs as elements of his beautifully psychedelic art.
The pill pieces remind me of the closing scene from the Audrey Tautou movie A la Folie…Pas Du Tout! (English: He Loves me, He Loves me Not).