Stories
- Article
A reflection on art in a mental hospital
Artist Beth Hopkins explains how she used her experience of researching the Adamson Collection to create an embroidered wall hanging.
- Article
The ‘epileptic’ in art and science
From scarred outsiders in literature to the cold voyeurism of medical films and photography, people who experience seizures and epilepsy are rarely shown in a compassionate light in popular culture.
- Article
The art of soundproof design
Too much noise is more than annoying – it has serious negative effects on health and cognitive ability. Find out how designers and architects are mitigating the downsides of sound.
- In pictures
The lost art of convalescence
The efficacy of antibiotics and the demands of work mean we rarely convalesce after an illness. But in the past it was an important part of the return to health.
Catalogue
- Books
Art & mental illness : free exhibitions and events until 28 June / Wellcome Collection.
Wellcome Collection.Date: 2009- Books
Madness in America : cultural and medical perceptions of mental illness before 1914 / Lynn Gamwell and Nancy Tomes.
Gamwell, Lynn, 1943-Date: 1995- Books
Narratives of art practice and mental wellbeing : reparation and connection / Olivia Sagan.
Sagan, OliviaDate: 2015- Books
New forms of art and contagious mental illness / Carl Julius Salomonsen ; responses by Johannes Bjerg, S. Danneskiold-Samsøe, Harald Giersing, Leo Swane and Medical Dr. Oluf Thomsen ; edited & translated by Andrew Hodgson.
Salomonsen, Carl Julius, 1847-1924Date: [2023]- Archives and manuscripts
Art and Psychosis: articles on Richard Dadd
Date: 1960s-1980sReference: PP/ROS/J/2/4Part of: The Archive of Ismond Rosen (1924-1996)