Art and Mind Organisation

Garry Kennard

Director

Garry Kennard was born in London in 1948. In the sixties and seventies he exhibited his paintings and woodcuts in London galleries, studied print making and printing for artists with the great printer Ian Mortimer.

For ten years he lived in France, where he ran his own gallery. The gallery was used for exhibitions, lectures and concerts.

Now resident in the UK, he has exhibited his paintings and drawings in London, Oxford, Cambridge, Winchester and more recently at Petworth House as artist in residence at the 2009 Petworth Festival. His exhibition 'Secular Icons' was held in March 2011 at the Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution, where he delivered a major lecture 'Art and Mind - can neuroscience illuminate the experience of art'. He has lectured on similar subjects at the Louise T. Blouin Foundation, The Conway Hall and at Clare Hall College, Cambridge Univerisity. He recently took part in a joint presentation with Rita Carter - Picturing Perception - at the Kinetica Art Fair in London.

A fascination with how the brain reacts to works of art has lead Garry Kennard to research, write and lecture on these topics. He is the founding director of the unique Art and Mind Festival in Winchester which has attracted leading artists and scientists to explore what light the brain sciences can throw on contemporary culture (see www.artandmind.org to find out more).

His essay 'The Uses of Paradox' was published by the University of Florida's 'Institute for the Psychological Study of the Arts'. In 2006 his essay 'Art and Mind' was published in the Nepal Journal of Neuroscience and can be found at http://www.neuroscienceforum.org.np/

Garry Kennard's paintings are in many private collections in UK, France and the United States, and in the collection of Clare Hall College, Cambridge University.

Garry Kennard has an interest in mountaineering and has climbed in the Alps and Africa as well as leading his own expeditions to the Nepalese Himalayas. His latest expedition was in 2010. He returned to Nepal for his third attempt to climb an unclimbed 6,640m mountain. He failed again.

For much more information, images, writing and lecture transcriptions, please visit

www.garrykennard.com

Annabel Huxley

PR and Programme for the festivals Art and Mind, Humour, Language, Space and Religion.

Annabel Huxley is a Science Communications PR.

For the last ten years she has specialized in the promotion of Science to the general public.

Annabel has a background in publishing and has promoted books by over 100 of the world's top-selling scientists. In addition she promotes science festivals, science-art and other cross-over projects, as well as the media profile of the scientists themselves. Amongst her clients are a range of British book publishers, the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Wellcome Trust, and Cheltenham and Winchester Science Festivals.

Rita Carter

Programme Advisor

See www.ritacarter.co.uk

Renowned science writer and author of 'Mapping the Mind' and 'Exploring Consciousness'.

Ruth Valentine

Art and Mind Secretary

Poet, writer and consultant