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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Harriet Sherwood Arts and culture correspondent

Brain sculptures by leading artists to be auctioned for Parkinson’s UK

D*Face, Brain Freeze, 2021.
Street artist D*Face has created an ice-cream brain called Brain Freeze. Photograph: Matt/D*Face

Brain sculptures created by leading artists including Tracey Emin and David Bailey are expected to raise thousands of pounds for research into Parkinson’s disease when they are auctioned on Wednesday.

Fifteen works have been created for the charity auction, Me, My Brain and I, by artists including Gavin Turk, who were asked to reflect what their brain means to them. Some of the artists have been affected by Parkinson’s.

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