Stories
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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.
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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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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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Reversing the psychiatric gaze
Nineteenth-century psychiatrists were keen to categorise their patients’ illnesses reductively – by their physical appearance. But we can see a far more complex picture of mental distress, revealed by those patients able to express their inner worlds in art.
Catalogue
- Pictures
Shapes representing bolts (?), and a question about the end of the Art Department at Netherne Hospital. Drawing by M. Birch, ca. 1972.
Birch, Martin, active approximately 1968-1973.Date: [ca. 1972]Reference: 2848130iPart of: Adamson Collection- Pictures
A car about to fall off a cliff into the sea; representing the Art Department of Netherne Hospital. Drawing by M. Birch, ca. 1972.
Birch, Martin, active approximately 1968-1973.Date: [ca. 1972]Reference: 2848128iPart of: Adamson Collection- Archives and manuscripts
Furness General Hospital. Art in the Community. Colin Benthem
Date: March 2002-May 2003Reference: ART/AFH/D/68Part of: Arts for Health: archive- Archives and manuscripts
Sotoasahikawa Hospital Hospice Art Project
Date: c.2000Reference: ART/AFH/C/1/2/34Part of: Arts for Health: archive- Archives and manuscripts
Art Workshops 04. Sheffield Childrens Hospital
Date: November 2003-February 2005Reference: ART/AFH/D/80Part of: Arts for Health: archive