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Bronwen Sandland: Artist
When one is confronted by life and death, particularly when someone close is affected, ethical choice in relation to medical testing on animals becomes a far more complicated issue. Can one afford to choose the lives of laboratory mice over the life of a child, one.s own mother or lover? Sandland explores the complex ethics and the emotional dilemmas that such choices impose. Painting on pharmaceutical boxes she investigates the relationship of medical scientists at the John Curtin School of Medical Research with their carefully nurtured mouse subjects. The research aims to create .mouse models. for human genetic disorders. Sandland was surprised to find that the mice all have names, like children, so she has created plaques that reference those sold in tacky decorator shops for bedroom doors. Between the cute painted images of mice and references to children there is an emotional space filled with a tension that ethical debate and rational argument cannot dissipate.
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- Bronwen Sandland
- Email: bronwensandland@hotmail.com
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