Consultant puts his wife’s grey matter on display
Conleth Murphy took the brave step of convincing his wife Maebh to undergo an MRI scan of her brain for the sake of art.
He printed the image — taken outside of clinical hours — onto paper and combined it with a watercolour drawing of her face, and layered it with another MRI image. The second of his works on display at UCC college of medicine’s Jennings Gallery shows a ‘colour map’ of the MRI with a red ink profile of Maebh’s face on acetate.
