The Migraine Art Concept
| Author: Klaus Podoll | 29. June 2004 |
| Edited by: Klaus Podoll |
The Art of Pain and Suffering
By Peter Wilson
Dr J.N. Blau, Dame Vera Lynn, Derek Robinson and Dr Marcia Wilkinson (from left to right) discussing entries to the first National Migraine Art Competition during the exhibition mounted in the City of London Migraine Clinic, 1st July 1981.
Pain and suffering have frequently inspired great artists. With this in mind, the British Migraine Association and WB Pharmaceuticals launched a National Migraine Art Competition in the autumn of 1980.
Competitors were asked to paint or depict their impressions of any of the six forms of visual disturbance which herald a classical migraine attack. There were categories for adult entrants and for children, with prize-money amounting to more than £ 800.
Good coverage in the national, provincial and medical press and, of course, our own quarterly newsletter, resulted in well over 300 entries by the time the competition closed on June 1st.
In order to judge the entries in appropriate surroundings, an exhibition was mounted in the City of London Migraine Clinic. The judges were Richard Calvocoressi, Curator of the Modern Art Collection at the Tate Gallery, who is a migraine sufferer; Dr. J.N. Blau, the Honorary Director of the City of London Migraine Clinic; John Liddell, representing the British Migraine Association; and Derek Robinson representing WB Pharmaceuticals.
Although the judges had an extremely difficult task they finally selected the winners shown overleaf.
References
Nicola U, Podoll K. L'aura di Giorgio de Chirico. Arte emicranica e pittura metafisica. Mimesis, Milano 2003.
Wilson P. The art of pain and suffering. Migraine Newsletter 1981 (no. 4): 13.
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