This uplifting show, curated by Mark de Novellis and displayed in the Stables Gallery, within the beautiful grounds of Orleans House in Twickenham, runs for 2 more weeks. Continue reading
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Art Exhibition Review – Madge Gill: Medium and Visionary – Orleans House Gallery
To mark today’s World Mental Health Day, which focuses this year on older adults, we’re posting a review of last night’s opening of Madge Gill: Medium and Visionary at Orleans House Gallery in Twickenham. Continue reading
Creativity and Mental Disorder
With our focus on creativity and mental health, we were very interested to come across an extensive article connecting the two subjects from the Royal College of Psychiatrists. In this piece Dr John Morgan, now Professor John Morgan explores the links between the creativity of several renowned artists, authors, poets and other luminaries in relation to their mental health. The article was written and originally published as part of the college’s ‘Changing Minds’ campaign. This ran between 1997 and 2003 seeking to improve the public’s knowledge of mental health issues and thus helping to reduce the stigma all too often suffered by those affected.
With thanks to Professor John F Morgan and the Royal College of Psychiatrists, as well as the National Portrait Gallery for the illustrations used.
© Royal College of Psychiatrists
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Flower Power – Nature & Art in the Psychiatric Ward
A thought provoking article by Amelia Rachel Hokule’a Borofsky, Psy.D., a community and clinical psychologist based in Hawaii. She teaches at Hawaii Pacific University and writes about health across different cultures. This piece also highlights a ground-breaking (quite literally, in a manner of speaking) art exhibit entitled Bloom, commissioned to commemorate the closure of the Massachusetts Mental Health Center, a former psychiatric training centre and hospital which commissioned Anna Schuleit to create a fragile yet immensely powerful art installation in the emptied space.
Read more here with thanks to The Atlantic, Amelia Rachel Hokule’a Borofsky and Anna Schuleit:
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/11/no-flowers-on-the-psych-ward/264923/
Red Regina Mums in the hallway that was the last one to close–it used to be one of the busiest homeless shelters in Boston. (Anna Schuleit)
Find out more about Anna Schuleit’s work here on her blog: http://www.anna-schuleit.com/
Fine Art Prints from Armadillo Central to Benefit SANE
From music to art and from Mind to SANE, we’re onto our next project.
Armadillo Central artist Jennifer Copley-May has just agreed to pledge 10% from each sale of her new Tao prints to The Fine Line Project.
Jennifer Copley-May Tao Armadillo Central
“This painting, which I have called Tao, symbolises for me the ever evolving universe and our lives in it. Attitudes towards mental health/illness evolve too and they have long been a concern both for personal reasons and in the context of the wider world.
Taoism in its more pragmatic form has interested me for a long time. I recently dipped back into the ‘Tao of Politics, Lessons of the Masters of Huainan’, a book full of everyday wisdom, very profound and yet easy to read. The version I have has been translated and edited by Thomas Cleary. One aphorism seemed particularly relevant: “Those who comprehend the Tao are not focused only on themselves, they are also connected to the world.”
It seemed appropriate therefore to use Tao as my contribution to raising funds for The Fine Line Project.”
Tao, which has been reproduced from an original watercolour painting, is printed on heavyweight 310 gsm Hahnemühle Fine Art Paper using archival inks and is available in 2 sizes from www.armadillocentral.com.
Find out more about SANE’s crucial work via their website, linked from our Charities page.
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