The Adamson Collection is of art objects created by people compelled to live for decades in the UK mental hospital, Netherne, in Edward Adamson's art studios.
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Artwork: john gerrard, Flare (Oceania) 2022. Courtesy the artist @john__gerrard and Pace Gallery
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“We too often forget to do a critical political-economy analysis of the museum: where does the money come from? How much capital does the museum possess within its collections? Who cleans, who cooks, who guards?” artreview.com/the-disordered…
Adamson on "Art for mental health" in Jean Creedy's 1970 "The Social Context of Art". Of its time...
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Nov. 21, 1961. "Edward Adamson, director of Art at Netherine Hospital, Coulsden, examines some of the paintings, exhibited at the Royal Society of Medicine, Wimpole Street, London"
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Changes at Adamson Collection Trust.
Writer & artist Rose Ruane is now Chair.
I've handed over after 20 years in post.
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Adamson Collection summary -by December 2024. All about: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward…
In 1979 @WendyVarley volunteered at Netherne. Here remembering two Adamson Collection/Wellcome Collection artists, Rolanda Polonsky (1923-96) & Martin Birch (1935-82) and tea in their summer house
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From the psychiatric hospital where she was compelled to live for over 30 years, Mary Bishop made some of the most affecting images of sadness and isolation in all our collections.
Her pictures speak powerfully about despair, but they're also full of tenderness and longing.
ALT A portrait in deep indigo watercolour showing Mary Bishop's strikingly bare and direct visual style. It shows a figure - perhaps a young girl - looking out at us with wide, empty eyes. Credit: A girl, head and shoulders. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1967. Source: Wellcome Collection. In copyright.
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Around 1947, Catalan psychiatrist Francesc Tosquelles proposed shifting the location of cognitive experience from the brain to the feet.
“When we walk in the world,” Tosquelles argued, “it isn’t the head that counts, it’s the feet. Knowing where you’re treading.”
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What’s next for the contemporary art biennial, now that the era of neoliberal globalisation that shaped it starts to unravel? artreview.com/the-biennale-a…
Prof Clair Will's @MECCambridge talk on the enigmatic Adamson Collection artist known as JJ Beegan during @TulcaFestival to watch:
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Includes Clair Wills’ cracking essay on Netherne, the Adamson Colllection, J J. Beegan, Rolanda, Polansky & so much more:
“Life Pushed Aside”. @LRB, 2021
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Our book of the week is *The Family Plot* by Clair Wills, the first volume in a new series of LRB books. Find out more and order your copy here: lrb.me/6tu
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Adamson Collection Trust celebrates our friend Sue Morgan retrospective @Bethlem_Gallery
Sue with us at ‘Art as Healing’ 2015
Launch Adamson Collection/Wellcome Collection. State Rooms, Speaker’s House @HouseofCommons Hosted @CharlesWalkerMP & @KevanJonesMP
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Adamson Collection Trust @adamsontrust joyfully announces writer & artist Rose Ruane joining our board. Welcome aboard Rose
Image: @RegretteRuane & @ACTchair, Adamson Collection store, Bethlem Royal Hospital, Jan 2020
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Something I've been wrangling with is a fundamental of the #Trieste experience and that is that freedom is therapeutic. It's sinking in what this really means. To truly believe that people with mental illness should have as much freedom as possible and that this is GOOD
The final touches being finished courtesy of @SnapGalway ahead of tonight’s launch at 6pm!🙌
We cannot wait to welcome audiences to the TULCA Gallery, Saint Augustine St, to celebrate the opening of honey, milk and salt in a seashell before sunrise.
Centenary of sculptor & poet Rolanda Polonsky
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In 1947 Rolanda went to Zürich, Paris, London, across postwar Europe. Her journey ended in 36 years compelled to live in Netherne player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/…
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