Overview
- The Wanted singer is leading GenesisCare UK's awareness campaign in memory of bandmate Tom Parker, who died of glioblastoma in 2022.
- The Memory Bank installation will be displayed at Oxford’s Westgate shopping centre before moving to GenesisCare’s Littlemore centre.
- The artwork presents an abstract functional MRI image that conceals messages from patients, which become visible under ultraviolet light.
- Its UV elements nod to 5‑ALA–guided surgery that makes tumour tissue fluoresce, a symbolic link to techniques used to help protect healthy brain tissue.
- Kaneswaran says the project emphasizes hope and valuing moments after diagnosis, and he contributed recorded memories of Parker for the piece.