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Hands-on healthcare

A young hospital volunteer feared her contribution was a long way from the serious business of real healthcare. But time spent painting patients’ nails proved to be a valuable contribution to life on the ward.

  • Article

The enduring myth of the mad genius

There’s a fine line to tread between creativity and psychosis.

  • Interview

Inside the mind of George Vasey, co-curator of Misbehaving Bodies

Discover how curator George Vasey honoured the approaches of Jo Spence and Oreet Ashery, who mischievously subvert clichés around illness and death.

  • Book extract

“Above resistant pavements, I floated”

In this extract from ‘Living with Buildings and Walking with Ghosts’, walk with Iain Sinclair through the streets of London.

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  • Chinese kilin and phoenix rank badges, and a black tunic showing a rank badge. Gouache painting.
  • Fight AIDS with NAC's posters, stickers, mugs, t-shirts & badges / NAC.
  • Fight AIDS with NAC's posters, stickers, mugs, t-shirts & badges / NAC.
  • Four Chinese rank badges, incorporating a Chinese leopard, phoenix, and two Chinese kilins. Gouache painting.
  • Nine badges showing portraits of gay men; recommending testing for HIV. Colour lithograph for the Schorerstichting, ca. 2003.
  • Numerous badges bearing different types of cancer and the mesasge 'sucks': World Cancer Day in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Kenya Cancer Association, ca. 2000.
  • Spanish lantern; animal products. Bone objects (including necklace for teething); small mammal's jawbone; 2 salt-codfish jawbones, cock's spur, bezoar, fishes earbones, and equine 'chetsnuts', badges paw.
  • [Red ribbon badge].
  • [Red ribbon badge].
  • [Red ribbon badge].
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