Jessica Voorsanger Meets Gary Cook / Julie Roberts Meets Three Junior Doctors - ACE362.3

Roberts’s Crime of Passion (1996), Teenage Suicide (1996), Syringe (1996), and Strait-Jacket, Female (1995). Roberts drawing anatomical exhibits. She talks about her earlier works, such as Gynaecological Couch (1992), and Dentist’s Chair, C.19th (1992). A real gynaecological couch. Colin Begg, Barrie McKillop, and Ien Soun Ly, three junior doctors working in Glasgow, talk about their ideas of art. Roberts on her way to the doctors’ flat. The four meet. She shows them slides of her work, particularly the gynaecological couch picture, and describing the public reaction to it. Roberts takes the doctors round the Pathology Museum, Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh and describes her responses to the exhibits. Strait-Jacket, Male (1995), Crime of Passion (1996), Sigmund Freud’s Desk and Chair (1996), Teenage Suicide (1996). Roberts and the doctors at the Glasgow City Police Mortuary. Mortuary Slab (1993). The doctors talk about how they have to react to the death of patients. Roberts working in her studio. She describes some possible subjects for this work including lifesize anatomical models she saw in Vienna and Florence. She describes the different postures of the models, with the males generally intellectualised while the females are usually sexualised, and suggests that it would be good for the doctors to recognise that society treats men and women differently. She works on two different paintings at the same time in order to keep them related to each other. The doctors discuss what they might expect the new work to be. The paintings being delivered and unwrapped. Roberts titles the duo as Anatomical Marriage. The doctors talk about their reactions. Roberts points out that, though the female image comes from a wax model, the painting has started to being it alive. Credits.