Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
Date
2013
Sitter
Sarah-Jayne Blakemore (1974, British) , Developmental psychologist
Creator
Garry Kennard (1948, British) , Artist
Object type
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Material
Dimensions
height (print): 420mm
width (print): 300mm
width (print): 300mm
Subject
Description
Half-length portrait of Sarah-Jane Blakemore, seated at a table, her hands resting on its surface. She wears a dark top, a light cardigan and glasses.
The table is inscribed with a quotation from William Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale (1611): ‘Old Sheperd: I would there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty, or youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting -‘
Signed in bottom right corner ‘Garry Kennard ‘13’
Sarah-Jane Blakemore is a Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, interested in the development of social cognition and decision-making in human adolescents. She was a Royal Society University Research Fellow (2007-2013) and winner of the Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Award (2013).
Garry Kennard is a painter and writer interested in the overlapping realms of science and art. For this series of portraits, he requested that his subjects bring a personal object or reflection to the studio that might say something about how they thought about their science.
The table is inscribed with a quotation from William Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale (1611): ‘Old Sheperd: I would there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty, or youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting -‘
Signed in bottom right corner ‘Garry Kennard ‘13’
Sarah-Jane Blakemore is a Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, interested in the development of social cognition and decision-making in human adolescents. She was a Royal Society University Research Fellow (2007-2013) and winner of the Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Award (2013).
Garry Kennard is a painter and writer interested in the overlapping realms of science and art. For this series of portraits, he requested that his subjects bring a personal object or reflection to the studio that might say something about how they thought about their science.
Object history
1 in a series of 5 portraits commissioned by the Royal Society for inclusion in ‘Scientists’ (2013); an exhibition curated by Uta Frith FRS.
Related fellows
Uta Frith (German) , Developmental psychologist
Associated place