Forensic Art
In 2003, Corbet commenced working with Andrew Nelson, Associate Professor at the University of Western Ontario and colleagues on the Sulman Mummy Project which was originally brought back from Egypt by George William Sulman a merchant living in Chatham, Ontario. Corbet was asked to sculpt the full forensic facial reconstruction of the 2,2000 mummy. The project was featured on several episodes of The Discovery Channel's, Daily Planet (TV series), and received worldwide attention. Corbet was lauded by the Rt. Hon. Ms. Helene Chalifour Scherrer, Minister of Canadian Heritage for his work with the Sulman Mummy. On 16 January 2004, the Chatham-Kent Museum unveiled the mummy. The Sulman Mummy Project was a joint effort between the Chatham-Kent Museum, Department of Anthropology at the University of Western Ontario, St. Joseph's Health Centre, Robarts Research Institute, the National Research Council of Canada, the Drafting Clinic Canada Ltd., and sculptor Christian Cardell Corbet.
As Artist in Residence at the University of Western Ontario Corbet was asked to create a comparative forensic facial reconstruction of a Twenty-first Dynasty of Egypt mummy belonging to the Royal Ontario Museum.
In January 2011 Corbet's three dimensional facial reconstruction of an Irish born WWI soldier who died during the Battle of Vimy Ridge in 1917 was identified as Pte. Thomas Lawless and announced by the Department of National Defence. Corbet was lauded for his work having received letters and special messages from Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Kathy Dunderdale Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, Minister of National Defence Hon. Peter MacKay, Amit Chakma, President & Vice-Chancellor of UWO among others. Corbet received a special invitation to attend the Full Military Burial in France. The forensic portrait sculpture of Pte. Thomas Lawless was unveiled at the Gallipoli Armoury, Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador and hosted by the 2nd Newfoundland Regiment. A CT and Laser scan was performed on the forensic facial reconstruction of Corbet's portrait of Lawless at Western Memorial Regional Hospital in April 2011 undertaken by Dr. Gavin White and Hilda Stephen.
In October 2011 Brock University exhibited forensic facial reconstruction drawings of Sir Isaac Brock by Corbet.
In 2011 Corbet also presented a lecture and demonstration on his role as a forensic artist at the Canadian War Museum for part of their War and Medicine Exhibition and Remembrance Week Programming.
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