Joel Fisher has enjoyed a distinguished career as an artist and has exhibited worldwide. He currently lives in Paris and Newcastle upon Tyne, where he teaches at the University of Northumbria. Fisher often incubates ideas for his art over long periods. Aletheia is a visual 'Chinese whispers', where a number of successive volunteers were asked to study a simple line drawing for three minutes then to redraw it from memory. That new image is then passed on to another person to do the same. The sequences have no real end. The twenty five drawings in each sequence here is an arbitrary number which corresponds to the number of generations that have passed since 1505, the year the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh was founded. It demonstrates what can happen to information that is transferred from person to person that many times. A number of different images have been used, but the seed images in these sequences are from the Armorial Bearings of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and a wound-man from an Augsburg volume of 1517. Note: Later exhibition venues may show other works proposed for Anatomy Acts such as Shade, a work consisting of the artist's beard hair framed in moon-like crescents, collected over 35 years, and the video works Divination Dogs, and A Generosity of Witness.

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