The Last Frontier

Angela Palmer collaborated with a team of professors at The Harvard Medical School to create 'The Last Frontier'. Together they scanned the brain at a resolution of 100 micron over a period of 100 hours - capturing scans 1,000 times more detailed than the usual MRI, and thus allowing an accurate rendering of the brain on a spectacular and dramatic scale. After precise engraving across 28 panes of glass, careful layers are built up to reveal a three-dimensional portrait of a brain suspended in space.

'The Last Frontier' features in a four-part film series on Sky Atlantic based on Robert Harris's book 'The Fear Index' (the main character, played by Josh Hartnett, is married to an artist, and Robert Harris based her work on Angela's). The series, in which the main characters meditate on the brain and its functions, was released in February 2022.