Stunning new sculptures by Eleanor Crook
MAA member Eleanor Crook was commissioned to make two sculptures for the newly reopened Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons of England. The first is a wax sculpture of a mitral valve replacement operation, and the second is a bronze with oil painted organs, of keyhole gall bladder removal, a laparoscopic cholecystectomy.
The Mitral Valve Replacement operation carries the title:
Valva Mitralis:
So fine a gate you made in me,
That life pours through,
Without the soul escaping.
Above is the bronze sculpture of a laparoscopic cholecystectomy operation - keyhole gall bladder removal.
The cutaway shows all the organs and they're not wax - they are oil painted bronze. Eleanor says that painting this felt like painting through a letterbox!
Please visit Eleanor's website at https://www.eleanorcrook.net/post/announcing-my-two-new-sculptures-for-the-new-hunterian-museum-london
for the full fascinating story about the commission, in her own words!