Tag: mental health
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H’arts in Mind: Drawing Our Way Back to Health
Paying lip service is not enough. The artworks in this exhibition, made by members of the mental health arts charity H’arts in Mind, cry out for an end to disability discrimination and for our society to start talking about and…
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Matt Jukes – interview: ‘You need to dream big, so you can shoot for the stars, and maybe reach the moon’
Matt Jukes talks about the pandemic, the effect of lockdown on our mental health, and his immersive, digital artwork Feelscape, which creates an abstract landscape from the emotions of a person’s memory of an event
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Studio Morison – interview: ‘MOTHER … was made to heal us now, to prepare us for the future. We are now in that future, and she can help us still’
The artists talk about their site-specific, timber and straw commission, MOTHER …, for Wicken Fen, Cambridgeshire, which offers visitors somewhere to sit and shelter and escape from their own heads
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The impact of Covid-19 on artists, part 3: building communities and finding inner resilience
In the third part of this five-part essay, comprising conversations with artists around the globe, we look at the impact the pandemic – and imposed isolation – is having on them in terms of community and inner resilience
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AlanJames Burns: ‘I’m embedding the cave with an assumed consciousness that is Mother Earth’
Burns guides us around the cave where his latest installation is taking place and explains that, historically, caves have played a vital role in the simultaneous evolution of consciousness and creativity
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This Is What It Is to Be Happy
What is it to be happy in an age where mental health problems are so prevalent? How can communing with nature, externalising the internal – both metaphorically and literally – help with this? This slickly curated three-person show delves deep,…
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Camille Claudel
Her legacy has often been dwarfed by her biography – as Rodin’s student and lover, who spent 30 years in a psychiatric institution. But with a new museum in her name, and 11 of her works saved for the French…
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Michael Armitage: ‘Can an art space function in the same way as a chapel?’
The artist weaves multiple narratives to evoke the complexity of East African society. Here, he talks about his exhibition The Chapel, at the South London Gallery, and how it gave him the chance to think about religion, spirituality and politics…
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Ida Applebroog: Mercy Hospital
These drawings from the forgotten sketchbooks of the well-known feminist artist Ida Applebroog offer an intimate insight into her struggle with depression during a six-week stay at Mercy Hospital in 1969
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