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Introduction to the exhibition
- Executive function
- Memory
- Creative self
- Social self
- Industrious self
Making More Sense
Video interview
Interview transcript
unfolding blog article

This exhibition is being held at Sudley House, from 18 October 2008 - 22 February 2009

Executive function

A sculpture made from folded white paper tubes that are intertwining

'Executive' sculpture. Photograph by Fiona Filby.

The main hall of Sudley House is being used to represent the executive function of the mind. Among the paintings by John Everett Millais and Edward Burne-Jones, you will find this 'Executive' sculpture, which explores mental flexibility, spontaneity and intellect.