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Immersive performance · Creative Director · 2022 Hippocampus · the Show A 42-minute immersive performance about the hippocampus, the part of the brain most associated with emotion and memory, melding visual art, neuroscience and an original score. It premiered at Adelaide Fringe 2022.
The album1 Artwork Music to Keep · Seven compositions Hippocampus · the Album
Ideas9 Essay Hippocampus · Brain Topic The Hippocampus Essay Hippocampus · Brain Topic Think Essay Hippocampus · Brain Topic Memory Essay Hippocampus · Brain Topic Learning Essay Hippocampus · Brain Topic Emotion Essay Hippocampus · Brain Topic Knowledge Essay Hippocampus · Brain Topic Rest Essay Hippocampus · Brain Topic Spatial
See all 9 The people7 Person Creative Director Gill Hicks Person Neuroscience · Narrator Dr Fiona Kerr Person Composer · Jazz Violin Julian Ferraretto Person Visual Artist Mike Worsman Person Digital Artist Max Brading Person Musician Anthony Leppa Person Wellbeing · Rest Annie Harvey
Recognition1 Artwork The LAB · February 2022 Sold Out · Adelaide Fringe 2022
For schools and groups1 Essay Exclusive Sessions For Schools & Groups
Merch3 $30 Tee Hippocampus Tee $40 Tote Bag Hippocampus Tote $5 Badge Work in Progress Badge
Stage show · Music, art and narrative · 2021 to 2026 Still Alive and Kicking Gill's first self-devised stage show: an hour of spoken narrative, jazz standards and projected paintings that shares "the insights of life through the reality of death". It won the Adelaide Fringe Edinburgh Award in 2021…
The show11 Event Premiere Season · Sold Out 2021 Adelaide Fringe Debut Essay 20th Anniversary · 2025 Wilton's Music Hall, London Essay Edinburgh Fringe 2021 Essay Perth International Cabaret Festival, His Majesty's Theatre, 24 and 25 Jun 2022 Essay APAX Conference Sydney 2022 Essay Adelaide Fringe 2023, Light ADL Essay Adelaide Fringe 2025, Woodville Town Hall Essay Darwin Festival 2025
See all 11 The cast7 Artwork Hicks · Ferraretto · Paul The Cast Person Jazz violinist and composer, on violin and saw Dr Julian Ferraretto Person Double bass. Elder Conservatorium alumnus Dylan Paul Person Double bass Lyndon Gray Person Bass, 2026 England tour Andy Hamill Person Moving image, Give Media Mike Worsman Person UK producer James Seabright
Recognition4 Essay 2021 · $10,000 Winner · Edinburgh Award Essay Critics Five-Star Reviews Essay Cabaret South Australia Award Artwork 2021 Adelaide Fringe accolades
The story3 Essay Edinburgh Fringe 2021, in Gill's words Essay Laugh, Cry, Sing! Essay Credits
Videos3 Video Fringe Spotlight Series: Episode 1, Gill Hicks Video STILL ALIVE and KICKING: a Big Life Moment Video Professor Sebastian Longsword meets Dr Gill Hicks
Music3 Video Stayin' Alive Audio Summertime Audio Feeling Good
Press14 Essay The Barefoot Review, Samela Harris, 26 Feb 2021 Essay The Barefoot Review, 26 Feb 2021 Essay The Barefoot Review, 26 Feb 2021 Essay The Adelaide Show, Steve Davis, 7 Mar 2021 Essay Adelaide Review Team, Stephen Foenander, 24 Feb 2021 Essay Evening Standard, Jane Cornwell, 10 Jul 2025 Essay SA Life Magazine Essay Seesaw Magazine, David Zampatti, May 2022
See all 14 Images5 Artwork Edinburgh Fringe 2021 banner Artwork Single poppy, Edinburgh Fringe 2021 Artwork Single Tall Poppy Artwork STILL ALIVE and KICKING Artwork Show artwork
Links2 Essay Media release, 18 August 2021 Essay Wilton's Music Hall
Projection · Film artwork · 2020 Blink of an Eye A 13-minute film of the faces and emotions of stage performers who lost their stage to COVID-19, shown on the Adelaide Convention Centre's North Terrace screen by day and projected onto its East Building at night.
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The film2 Essay Adelaide Convention Centre Watch the Film Video Blink of an Eye, trailer
The projection1 Essay October 2020 · Two Surfaces The Projection
The message1 Event The show will go on The Message
The creative team1 Essay Hicks · Worsman · Ferraretto The Creative Team
Press2 Essay Adelaide Convention Centre media release Essay Adelaide Convention Centre media release
The story3 Essay In Gill's words Artwork Blink of an Eye on the East Building Artwork Gill at the projection
A language that needs no words. M.A.D. Art, immersive performance, film and music, each piece created with one intention: to express the beautiful complexity that is us, and our relationship with each other and the world we live in.
Every M.A.D. Art work is released as a limited edition of just 2005 prints, a deliberate number, each edition carried in acknowledgement of 7 July 2005. Original canvas works are available by request.