Words have power.

I could spend this precious time waxing lyrical about sad statistics or tragic tales, but I’m going to celebrate instead; amazing things, and amazing people.

The human brain is an incredible thing. 

It is easily the coolest and most impressive thing about someone, but generally speaking, you can’t see it directly, only indirectly.

You can see it in someone’s actions, their words, the way they move their body, and what they create in the world.

We exist within it, but also somewhere else outside of it.

We experience our entire lives and the world through it and yet it remains a complete mystery to us.

It can give life, experience delight and love or create a masterpiece. Sometimes, all at the same time.

Being diagnosed with an acoustic neuroma and needing 13 hours of brain surgery was not on my bingo card for 2025.

But at some point around the 4 week post op mark, I asked myself a simple question:

‘Is it possible to make this the best thing that has ever happened to me?’

I didn’t try to force an answer, I just let the question hover, unanswered and waited to see what would materialise from this arrangement of words.

What followed was the most prolific and creative period of my entire life, and my first exposure to the brain cancer space.

I then discovered a field that is, against all odds, on the threshold of significant breakthroughs and currently experiencing a favourable window of opportunity to find a cure and make history.

I also discovered kind, accomplished, talented and intelligent people working really hard to find a way forward.

And I discovered an opportunity to create something defiantly joyful and deliciously exuberant, and give back to the people who saved my life.

I’d like to dedicate this project to the unfathomable miracle that is the human brain and all the people who work tirelessly to understand it.

Linda 🖤

100% of the profits from the Neurospicy Art project will be donated to brain cancer research in Australia.

"Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality” - Lewis Carroll.

‘What is the life of man but art and science?‘ - William Blake.

TLDR; ‘Neurospicy Art’ is a 109 piece art collection by Melbourne-based Creative Director Linda Radosinska (diagnosed with a large acoustic neuroma in March 2025), created to support brain cancer research in Australia.

Linda Radosinska is an artist and Creative Director based in Melbourne, Australia.

Linda has had a multifaceted career since graduating with a degree in business from Waikato University. She is an award-winning health and safety professional, educator, artist and TEDx speaker.

While working in industrial relations and education she created a project called 'When I Grow Up', aimed at teaching 4-9 year olds about workplace health and safety - in an effort to curb dismal teenage workplace injury rates around the world.

She was invited to give a TEDx talk on the same project and in 2019 was named one of Health + Safety at Work Magazine's top 40 under 40 innovators and influencers in workplace health and safety.

Linda is New Zealand-born Slovak and is now based in Melbourne, Australia. Linda is also an exhibiting visual artist predominantly working in the mediums of fine art photography, film, illustration and digital art. Linda is also a writer and dancer, preferring to work in whatever medium lends itself best to the stories that want to be told.

Exhibitions:

2011 - Exit Through the Thrift Shop (solo exhibition, NZ)

2014 - Paper Pirates (group exhibition, Tokyo)

2015 - Paper Pirates (group exhibition, New York)

2023 - The Highest Form of Hope (solo exhibition, Melbourne)

2025 - Cause + Effect (2 solo exhibitions on at the same time, Melbourne)

Linda is a recovering workaholic, perpetual reinventor, big time introvert, and lover of all things education, creativity, work, business and industry.