ON EDGE:
LIVING IN AN AGE OF ANXIETY

We all experience anxiety to a greater or lesser extent at some point in our lives. For some anxiety is ongoing, for others it is a feeling that passes. Anxiety can be disabling, controlling many aspects of a person’s life, or it can be a motivational force.

Curator Producer for ON EDGE – Mette Kjærgaard Præst

Season Advisors

As a catalyst for creative collaborations in art and science, we draw on the expertise of a group of people who approach the season topic from their individual artistic or scientific perspectives. Advisors help Science Gallery London to shape the content and direction of the season so that it becomes something that has credence in their respective worlds.

The advisors for ON EDGE are:

• Thalia Eley, Professor of Developmental Behavioural Genetics, Social, Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London

• Errol Francis, Chief Executive, Culture&

• Colette Hirsch, Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology, Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London