The Migraine Art Concept

Early Pictorial Representations of Visual Migraine Aura

Migraine sufferers have long since used paintings and drawings to represent and communicate various symptoms of a common disorder which has afflicted mankind since the beginning of history. [more]

Derek Robinson's Migraine Art Concept

Migraine Art denotes the idea that pictorial representational art provides an adequate and sometimes the best suited medium to express and communicate the peculiar experiences of a migraine sufferer. [more]

Entry to one of the four Migraine Art contests, 1980-1987. © 2007 Migraine Action Association and Boehringer Ingelheim

The Migraine Art Competitions

Four national Migraine Art competitions were performed between 1980 and 1987 in the UK, jointly sponsored by the British Migraine Association (now the Migraine Action Association) and Boehringer Ingelheim UK Limited. [more]

Publications on Migraine Art

Migraine Art pictures have been used to illustrate articles in the lay press and general medical press and to elucidate a variety of phenomenological aspects of "the migraine experience from within". [more]

Migraine Art Exhibitions

Selected works from the Migraine Art collection, which now consists of 562 pieces, were displayed in numerous exhibitions both in the the UK and abroad. [more]

Further Competitions Inspired by the Migraine Art Concept

The concept of Migraine Art inspired a number of subsequent art contests organized by various parties in the United States and the UK. [more]

Migraine Art in the Internet

A search for Migraine Art in the Internet offers the opportunity to study not only paintings and drawings submitted to Migraine Art contests, but also migraine-related artworks produced for the general art market. [more]

Documents

The original texts collected on this website provide a record of the history of the Migraine Art project, a story which is yet unfinished. [more]

Podoll & Robinson, Migraine Art - The Migraine Experience from Within, 2008. © 2008 North Atlantic Books

A book on 'Migraine Art - The Migraine Experience from Within', by Klaus Podoll and Derek Robinson, will be released by North Atlantic Books on November 11, 2008 (see here).

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