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Conserving Audrey

Elena describes how specially designed storage allows Audrey’s scrapbooks to retain all traces of her creative process, although their intrinsic fragility means deterioration is almost inevitable.

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Picturing mental health

Ron Hampshire created artworks while resident at Netherne psychiatric hospital. What can we learn from them?

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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.

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The Key to Memory: Use art to articulate

Danny Rees explains what William Utermohlen’s self-portraits can tell us about how and why we remember.

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  • Écorché legs: three figures. Pencil and ink wash drawing, after an unidentified work on anatomy, ca. 1830(?).
  • Écorché legs: two figures. Pencil and ink wash drawing, after an unidentified work on anatomy, ca. 1830(?).
  • Male bust on a plinth: two figures. Pencil and ink wash drawing, after an unidentified work on anatomy, ca. 1830(?).
  • Cross-section of a skull including detail of inner ear. Pencil drawing, after an unidentified work on anatomy, ca. 1830(?).
  • Muscles of the lower limbs and the trunk: two écorché figures. Pencil and ink wash drawing, after an unidentified work on anatomy, ca. 1830(?).
  • Glass: a mediaeval glass-maker at work beside his furnace. Coloured pencil drawing, [n.d., twentieth century], after a thirteenth century French manuscript illustration.
  • Écorché leg of man riding a horse, and écorché hand with outstretched palm. Pencil and ink wash drawing, after an unidentified work on anatomy, ca. 1830(?).
  • Écorché figure with right leg bent, holding foot behind him, and detail of a head and neck. Pencil and ink wash drawing, after an unidentified work on anatomy, ca. 1830(?).
  • Six physiognomies. Drawing, c. 1789, after C. Le Brun.
  • A pair of eyes belonging to a senator. Drawing, c. 1794.
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