From the age of 16, Lindsay Caldicott trained as a radiographer. From 1978, after a stay in Israel, she worked in a hospital in the Netherlands. In 1983, she left her profession to study fine art at Middlesex Polytechnic in London. Between 1988 and 1990, she returned to radiology, this time in Amsterdam. Sexual abuse during her childhood severely affected her psychological balance; over time, her condition deteriorated, and she was diagnosed as manic-depressive and schizophrenic. In 1990, a severe crisis forced her to leave her job and return to Leicester. At the age of 34, she was institutionalized. During the 24 years of her confinement, and until her suicide, she attempted to gather the sediments of her past to create her major work. Her collages bring together a myriad of X-ray fragments, cut with a scalpel and assembled with surgical precision.
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