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
- Archives and manuscripts
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"Netherne Hospital, comments and suggestions."
Date: c.1960Reference: PP/RKF/B.16/36Part of: Freudenberg, Rudolph Karl (1908-1993) and Freudenberg, Gerda (née Vorster) (1906-1995)- Books
Netherne Hospital 1909-1984.
Date: [1984]- Archives and manuscripts
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Netherne Hospital: ground plan
Date: c.1950s-1970sReference: PP/RKF/B.9/10Part of: Freudenberg, Rudolph Karl (1908-1993) and Freudenberg, Gerda (née Vorster) (1906-1995)- Archives and manuscripts
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Netherne Hospital Patients' Census
Date: Jul 1956Reference: PP/RKF/B.14/1Part of: Freudenberg, Rudolph Karl (1908-1993) and Freudenberg, Gerda (née Vorster) (1906-1995)- Pictures
Netherne Hospital, Surrey: the recreation hall. Watercolour by H. Campbell, 1968.
Campbell, Hugh, active approximately 1968.Date: 25.7.68 [25 July 1968]Reference: 2917958iPart of: Adamson Collection