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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November 6th 2024
Artwork: john gerrard, Flare (Oceania) 2022. Courtesy the artist @john__gerrard and Pace Gallery
@PaceGallery – at Washington, DC
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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…
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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…
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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
@ExploreWellcome @WellcomeLibrary @RawVisionMag @baat @rcpsych @TulcaFestival @HalleStPierre @OutsiderArtFair
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
@ExploreWellcome
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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
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George Mayerle's "international eye chart" (negative) ca. 1907.
Invented by an immigrant living in 20th-century San Fran, the chart was intended to allow anyone to do an eye test regardless of nationality.
Buy a print here: buff.ly/2WbtlhU
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Jon Sarkin's paintings are a captivating journey through time, revealing their own physical history, dissonant dialogues, and jazz-like riffs. Featured in Raw Vision 116, available to pre-order!
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#jonsarkin #outsiderart #artbrut #selftaughtart #rawvision
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Our latest investigation is out. w/@counterinv and @argosonderzoekt we examined the 2020 police shooting of #SammyBaker in Amsterdam. Our findings reveal errors in police testimony, and challenge the official investigation.
View the interactive here: vpro.nl/sammy
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Marcia Rigg: The Resilient Voice of Justice in Modern Britain - Black History Month 2023 blackhistorymonth.org.uk/art…
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EXCL: Earlier this week, we revealed that Oxevision, a video-monitoring system, was being used in both adult and child psychiatric wards — allowing staff to see patients even when undressed in their own bedrooms.
Now, NHS bosses have announced a review:
inews.co.uk/news/nhs-chiefs-…
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The ‘split-second’ argument can be fatal for Black/brown communities
As @ForensicArchi has shown, it was used to justify the killing of Mark Duggan
Officers believed Duggan to be holding a firearm – a belief that proved to be fatal, and that an inquest found was not true
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This #YGK street art/ mural is so moving with a powerful message! 🖤
#Fentanyl #OpioidCrisis #GlocalHealth
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Halle Saint Pierre presents "Aux Frontières l'Art Brut", curated by Martine Lusardy, from Sept 20 - 25 Feb, 2024.
Ghyslaine and Sylvain STAËLENS
"Character" , 2022
105x40x25cm
Courtesy Halle Saint Pierre
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#SoulsINQUEST uses photography and writing as a lens onto state violence, death, grief and restistance.
Thank you @kmaccorgarry for capturing our opening night of the exhibition @198CAL , where we came together to reflect on family voice in the fight for justice.