Portraits, Patients & Psychiatrists, Gemma Anderson

Share this event Portraits, Patients & Psychiatrists, Gemma Anderson Bethlem Gallery 20th May – 18th June 2010 This exhibition forms the culmination of a Wellcome Trust Arts Award winning collaboration between artist Gemma Anderson and Forensic Psychiatrist Dr Tim McInerny. These life size prints reveal an intimate visual language transforming the body into a container […]

Consulting the Collection

Share this event Consulting the Collection Bethlem Gallery 24th June – 16th July 2010 Bethlem Artists Past & Present An exhibition of painting, drawing, photography, and sculpture by contemporary Bethlem artists interwoven with artworks and curiosities from the Bethlem Museum’s collection. David Beales, Stephanie Bates, Richard Dadd, John Exell, Jane Fradgley, Henry Hering, Imma Maddox, […]

Symbolic Abstractions, Peter Rowbotham

Share this event Symbolic Abstractions, Peter Rowbotham Bethlem Gallery 29th July – 20th August 2010 “My work comes from my imagination, and memories of people and places I have seen. I paint and draw juxtaposing images to represent feelings and emotions.”

Phantasmagoria, Bethlem Museum

Share this event Phantasmagoria, Bethlem Museum Bethlem Gallery 26th August – 10th September 2010 An exhibition of paintings and drawings from the Bethlem Museum’s Reserve Collection by British Surrealist artists in the 1930s whilst under the controlled influence of mescaline. The results of these hallucinations or ‘experimental psychosis’ are a vivid and revealing visual insight […]

The Bethlem Tapestry

Share this event The Bethlem Tapestry Bethlem Gallery 23rd September – 15th October 2010 To mark World mental health day 2010 patients, staff, carers and volunteers from the National Psychosis Unit at Bethlem Royal Hospital show a modern twist on the notion of tapestry. Ten meters of stretched silk comprises images and text made by […]