Tag: Wellcome Collection

Audrey Amiss: The Surviving Exhibitions

Prevented by a mental health crisis from finishing her studies at the Royal Academy, she continued to make work, using it to bring attention to harmful practices in the psychiatric system
The Coming of Age

This exhibition explores ageing from the 1500s on, but it was the contemporary works here that resonated most with me, capturing the particular inequality confronting older women
Jason Wilsher-Mills – interview: ‘Doing art is like cultural national service’

The life-affirming British artist, whose latest show, curated by Shamita Sharmacharja, is at the Wellcome Collection in London, reflects on illness and disability as catalysts for artistic awakening, the potency of everyday surrealism, and the incalculable importance of family
Grace Ndiritu – interview: ‘Museums hold our collective past and they can hold our future’

Ndiritu talks about her show at the Wellcome Collection, where a Zen Buddhism-inspired temple allows visitors to contemplate her tapestries Repair and Restitution, and explains why reshaping the role of museums is so important to her
Jo Spence and Oreet Ashery: Misbehaving Bodies

This bold exhibition brings together two challenging female artists insistent on exploring identity and the medicalised body
James Wilkes: ‘Mind-wandering has became a productive way for us to disrupt that idea of there being rest and the opposite of rest’

The exhibition Rest & its discontents at the Mile End Art Pavilion, London, is one of a number of events born from the works of Hubbub, a collective of multidisciplinary practitioners investigating busy-ness and rest. Wilkes, a poet, writer and…
This is a Voice

This intriguing exhibition attempts to capture the elusive nature of the human voice, with live performances by sound artists, demonstrations, paintings and medical illustrations. Curator Bárbara Rodríguez Muñoz tells Studio International about the show
Mark Fairnington: ‘The work I do with scientists echoes their speculation and observation rather than any ensuing claim to truth’

The artist talks about his work researching natural history collections, how he crosses the divide between art and science, and his deadpan English brand of surrealism
An Idiosyncratic A to Z of the Human Condition

This whimsical interactive exhibition from the Wellcome Collection, with its weird and wonderful objects, guides us through an alphabetical history of medicine, says Kate Tiernan