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Demanding a diagnosis for invisible pain

After dozens of hospital visits and handfuls of painkillers, a plethora of scans and tests bring diagnosis closer for Jaipreet Virdi.

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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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The current that kills

In the 19th century, electricity held life in the balance, with the power to execute – or reanimate.

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A woman in her wilderness of things

Even though her home was overwhelmed with stuff, Georgie Evans’s grandma couldn’t stop buying things. In this series, Georgie delves into hoarding, and attempts to make sense of her grandma’s behaviour.

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  • Two women are working at large looms. Coloured lithograph.
  • Textiles: tapestry weaving, three looms in an interior. Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • Women and children are working at large cotton looms. Lithograph after J.R. Barfoot.
  • Two men working at looms with an overseer carrying a large stick watching over them. Engraving after W. Hogarth.
  • A finger marked with a "lost property" sign, as a warning of the danger of looms to textile workers. Gouache painting attributed to John Bonella Third, 1949.
  • Death looms above a group of people inflicted with various physical and mental diseases - a lazar house. Stipple engraving by M. Haughton, 1813, after H. Fuseli.
  • Two men are working at looms as a man with a large stick looks around the door to see if they are working. Engraving by William Hogarth after himself.
  • Flying kites over old Edo on a festival in early spring; a fire watchtower looms in the foreground and Fuji is visible in the distance. Woodcut by Gekko, early twentieth century.
  • People gathered around a candle-lit table; one man, held by another appears terrified, one person holds a glass, and a large figure looms in the background. Aquatint. by K. Hofer, 1899.
  • In a Spitalfields silk weaver's shop two contrasting apprentices, Tom Idle, asleep, and Francis Goodchild, engrossed in his work, sit at their looms overseen by their master. Engraving by Thomas Cook after William Hogarth, 1749.
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