Everything is Connected, a new visual art exhibition exploring UCL’s ground-breaking neurological research, will run at the Crafts Council, London from 22nd May to 3rd June during Dementia Action Week.

The exhibition celebrates the wide-ranging public art programme, which supports UCL’s ambitious project to build a new world-class neuroscience centre on Grays Inn Road, London. The centre, due to open in 2027, aims to accelerate the discovery of treatments for neurological conditions, including dementia – for which there is still no known cure

A range of works will be on display - many of which will be installed in the neuroscience centre when it opens in 2027. These include digital and video works, soundscapes, interactive installations, photography, painted wall works, lightboxes and sculpture.

In the exhibition, lead artist Annie Cattrell, who is creating a large-scale artwork for the new building will map and reflect on her research journey over the last four years and artist-in-residence Freya Gabie will showcase some of her work, which will be exhibited within the centre.

Since construction began in 2020, Cattrell and Gabie have been collaborating with UCL researchers, clinicians, professional services staff, patients and wider communities as part of the programme of work to broaden knowledge and awareness of the ground-breaking neurological research that will be made possible by the new facility.

The show will also feature work by artist Jo Volley as well as a range of different works that have come out of collaborations between artists, researchers and people with lived experience of diseases - from a soundscape exploring the unheard voices of young people affected by Parkinson’s, to the administrative ‘red tape’ which patients and carers must untangle to access care, to a card game that helps navigate the uncertainty of living with dementia.

Everything is Connected is free and open to all from Thursday 22nd May – Tuesday 3rd June, 10am-6pm Mon-Sat. (Closed Sundays and Saturday 24 May 12pm-4pm)

All welcome! No need to book, just turn up!