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This work was developed as part of a public art commission proposal exploring the neuroscience of memory for a dementia ward at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. It represents the hippocampus, fornix and mammillary bodies that sit near the centre of the brain and process memory. This is called the Limbic system, hence the title of the work Limbic Memory.

Briony was struck by how the shape represents a funnel curving around from the hippocampus (the part that is enlarged in London black cab drivers) to the two hanging mammillary bodies. This funnel shape mirrors the function of memory processing, how we filter down the sensory input of an experience to the essentials that we lay down as a memory. 

Briony Marshall is a London based sculptor and installation artist. With a background in Biochemistry she is interested in the idea of art practice as research. She fuses an intellectual/conceptual approach with an intuitive, materials inspired process to develop sculptures that investigate the natural world and man’s place in it. Briony was one of the first students to study sculpture at the Art Academy when it was set up in the early 2000s. Briony has been selected for residencies at Pangolin London and the Brian Mercer Bronze Casting residency in Italy, she has been elected a council member of the Royal Society of Sculptors, and has been names on of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s ‘175 aces of Chemisty’.She was recently shortlisted for Marsh Award for Excellence in Public Sculpture and is currently working on a participatory public artwork, Plastic Mountain, for which she was awarded a Lottery Project Grant from the Arts Council England. 

Briony is head of Professional Development at the Art Academy and helps prepare diploma and certificate students for realities and opportunities of life as an artist. Briony shows with Pangolin London.