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A reflection on art in a mental hospital
| Beth Hopkins
Artist Beth Hopkins explains how she used her experience of researching the Adamson Collection to create an embroidered wall hanging.
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Picturing mental health
| Lalita KaplishSolomon Szekir-Papasavva
Ron Hampshire created artworks while resident at Netherne psychiatric hospital. What can we learn from them?
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Mary Bishop and the surveillant gaze
| Rose RuaneMary Bishop
Writer and artist Rose Ruane explores the paintings of Mary Bishop, created during a 30-year stay in a psychiatric hospital, which speak of constant medical surveillance and censorious self-examination.
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Reversing the psychiatric gaze
| Leah Sidi
Nineteenth-century psychiatrists were keen to categorise their patients’ illnesses reductively – by their physical appearance. But we can see a far more complex picture of mental distress, revealed by those patients able to express their inner worlds in art.