Documents

In an unpublished letter, Derek Robinson recalled: "During a meeting between Peter Wilson and myself, it was agreed that the British Migraine Association and Boehringer Ingelheim Limited, the company from which I retired in 1993, would jointly sponsor a National Migraine Art Competition... Three further competitions took place during the 1980s... As Migraine Art was my 'baby', Boehringer Ingelheim were happy to give me a free reign regarding the work I did on behalf of the Association."

Elsewhere, he explained: "It's as well that I kept the project going because I believed that it was making a valuable contribution to the understanding of migraine ", hence the project occupied a central role in his life since its first conception.

Sadly, Derek Robinson's death, 22nd February 2001, has deprived the Migraine Art project from the incessant care devoted to this "brain child" by its originator.

The documents collected on the present website, in honour of the late Derek Robinson, provide a record of the history of the Migraine Art project, a story which (hopefully so) is yet unfinished.

Documents

Derek Robinson, In the Picture - A Personal View of Migraine (1973)

Peter Wilson, National Migraine Art Competition (1980)

Peter Wilson, The Art of Pain and Suffering (1981)

Derek Robinson, Migraine Art Exhibition (1982)

Matthew Gale, Fourth Migraine Art Competition (1987)

Derek Robinson, The Art of Migraine (1987)

Jane Roberts Gill and Derek Robinson, Twenty-five migraine artists: Their lives and their headaches (1989)

Derek Robinson, Introduction to "Mosaic Vision" (1991)

Klaus Podoll, Migraine Art - The Migraine Experience From Within. (The Peter Wilson Memorial Lecture 1998)

Ron Stewart, Was Lewis Carroll inspired by migraine? (2000)

Trevor Richard Pearce, Deus ex Migraine (2000)

Klaus Podoll, "La settimana della cefalea - A headache break" (2002)

Jodie A. Daquilanea, π: Aronofsky's Film and Its Signs of Mysticism (2003)

Sona Sandalian, The $ 1,000,000.00 Migraine Headache - Pour Picasso (2003)

Karen A. Cadenhead, The Alchemy of Migraine (2003)

Chris Corrigan, Headache Art (2003)

Petra Kuppers, Migraine Art: Different Ways of Seeing (2004)

Teresa Habberfield, Migraine aura as source of Giorgio de Chirico's artistic inspiration – An Interview with Matthew V. Gale (2005)

Pamela Richards, Some logical thoughts on migraine and painting (2005)

Rajeev Ranjan Dwivedi, Art meets science at Migraine Art Competition (2007)