Stories
- Article
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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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.
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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.
Catalogue
- Pictures
Edward Adamson drowning. Watercolour by M. Birch, 1971.
Birch, Martin, active approximately 1968-1973.Date: 7.9.71 [7 September 1971]Reference: 2851462iPart of: Adamson Collection- Pictures
Edward Adamson: head and shoulders directed to right. Drawing by G. Gurr, 1983.
Gurr, Graham, active approximately 1976-Date: 25.5.83 [25 May 1983]Reference: 2970934iPart of: Adamson Collection- Pictures
Edward Adamson: head and shoulders directed to left. Colour drawing by G. Gurr, 1983.
Gurr, Graham, active approximately 1976-Date: 3.6.83 [3 June 1983]Reference: 2970936iPart of: Adamson Collection- Pictures
Edward Adamson: head and shoulders directed to right, facing front. Drawing by G. Gurr, 1983.
Gurr, Graham, active approximately 1976-Date: 27.5.3 [27 May 1983]Reference: 2970935iPart of: Adamson Collection- Pictures
Edward Adamson wearing a bow tie and a blue jacket: bust length. Gouache by A. Dare, 1964.
Dare, Anthony, active approximately 1964.Date: 24.2.64 [24 February 1964]Reference: 2921884iPart of: Adamson Collection