The Wende Museum is proud to support Stanford School of Medicine’s guest speaker series, Art Across Boundaries, exploring the intersection of visual arts and science. The next conversation features acclaimed artist Susan Aldworth, whose experimental prints and installations investigate human identity through neuroscience, medicine, and philosophy.

The Wende Museum is proud to support Stanford School of Medicine in presenting a new, collaborative guest speaker series entitled “Art Across Boundaries” which examines the overlap between visual arts and science and how the two areas can inspire and enrich each other. Join us for a conversation with Susan Aldworth.

Susan Aldworth is a visual artist who lives and works in London. Susan studied philosophy at Nottingham University before studying print at Sir John Cass, London. She has since won great acclaim for her work as an experimental printmaker and installation artist, focusing on the exploration of human identity with reference to narratives from lived experience, medicine, neuroscience and philosophy. Through her investigations into consciousness, sleep, childhood, dementia, schizophrenia, epilepsy and migration, Susan has developed a particular interest in expanding notions of contemporary portraiture.

Her investigations into human identity have linked Susan with the Art & Science movement in the UK since the late 1990s, and she taught for many years on the MA Art & Science at Central Saint Martins. Her experimental work in print includes the groundbreaking etchings – Transience – printed directly from human brain tissue.  

 Alongside her established reputation as a radical printmaker Susan makes large- scale installations including The Portrait Anatomised, National Portrait Gallery, London, 2013, The Dark Self, York St Mary’s, 2017, Illuminating the Self , Hatton Gallery, Newcastle, 2020 and  Belongings at The Arcade, King’s College, London 2024.

Art Across Boundaries
Feat. Susan Aldworth
Thurs, Feb 20 | 5:30 p.m. Live and Online