Stories
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- In pictures
Artists, activism and AIDS
Posters by artists who turned their art into activism to support their communities and raise awareness of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s and 1990s.
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Divining the world through an artist’s almanac
Amanda Couch's artists book, 'Huwawa in the Everyday: an almanac' is inspired by the entrail like folds of a medieval folding and its function as a guide for astrological divinations linking the body, health and the heavens. Like the original almanac her work is designed to be carried out into the wider world.
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Tragic artists and their all-consuming passions
Does having a debilitating disease help or hinder creative genius?
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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.
Catalogue
- Books
Artists in mind.
Date: [between 2006 and 2016]- Archives and manuscripts
"Artists CVs"
Date: 2000-2002Reference: ART/AFH/A/1/21Part of: Arts for Health: archive- Archives and manuscripts
"Artists crafts"
Date: c.2002Reference: ART/AFH/A/1/20Part of: Arts for Health: archive- Archives and manuscripts
"Artists Agency Sunderland"
Date: 1992-1993Reference: ART/AFH/A/1/18Part of: Arts for Health: archive- Archives and manuscripts
"Artists / Art groups"
Date: 1988-1990Reference: ART/AFH/A/1/19Part of: Arts for Health: archive