Stories
- Article
The painter, the psychiatrist and a fashion for hysteria
A dramatic painting brings a famous event in medical history alive. But it also tells a tale about the health preoccupations of the time.
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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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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.
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The intermediate life of spirits
Courttia Newland explores the events and his feelings surrounding the death of his mother-in-law, Tara Chauhan.
Catalogue
- Books
- Online
Painting in general. By James L. Walker, Market-Street, near the Court-House Baltimore, Sign of the Painting Muse.
Walker, James L.Date: [1792]
- Digital Images
- Online
Painting academy, Heiss, 17th century
- Audio
Painting conservation : / memory of smells.
Date: 2004- Videos
Painting the mind.
Date: 2007- Books
Painting in Britain, 1530 to 1790 / Ellis Waterhouse.
Waterhouse, Ellis Kirkham, 1905-1985.Date: [1969], ©1969
