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Mary Bishop and the surveillant gaze

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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Restoring disorder to ‘The Book of Disquiet’

Printer Tim Hopkins explains what making an extraordinary new edition of Fernando Pessoa’s book revealed about both the text and the mind.

  • Long read

The ambivalence of air

Daisy Lafarge investigates the effects of air quality and pressure on body and mind, exploring air as cure, but one with contradictions.

  • Long read

Our complicated love affair with light

Sunlight is essential, but our relationship with artificial light is less clear cut. It expands what’s possible; it also obscures and polices. In this long read, Lauren Collee pits light against night, and reveals the shady places in between.

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  • A cat in "gothic" style. Gouache by Louis Wain, 1925/1939.
  • Fontaine Saint-Nicodeme. 16th century, flamboyant Gothic.
  • Page of Gothic text from a 15th century Leech-Book
  • Page of Gothic text from a 15th century Leech-Book
  • Page of Gothic text from a 15th century Leech-Book
  • Ruins of a Gothic church in a wood. Lithograph by R. Cooper II, ca. 1802.
  • Five men standing inside the ruins of a Gothic church, at night. Coloured aquatint, ca. 1800.
  • Celtic, Romanesque and Gothic architectural and decorative elements in buildings in France. Coloured engraving by Langevin, 1851.
  • A nun in a purple habit approaching a well near a Gothic building. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1958.
  • A nun in a purple habit approaching a well near a Gothic building. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1958.
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