Bethlem Gallery on why co-production needs to stay at the forefront – and one way it is core to our work
Image: Workshops with Artist Lucy Steggals What is co-production? Simply put, it is a term for collaborative processes that actively involve people who are stakeholders in whatever is being created, developed or delivered. It’s rarely simple to achieve in practice, however. Used across public services and the cultural sector, co-production is participation that goes beyond […]
Reflective Practice: making space for thinking together
Image: Bethlem Gallery A summary of a talk by Gerard Drennan Gerard Drennan is a clinical psychologist who has worked alongside Bethlem Gallery for over a decade, holding a reflective practice space for the Bethlem Gallery team. As part of our recent symposium The Art of Practice, he shared some reflections on what it means to hold a Reflective Practice (RP) space within an arts […]
Safe Spaces with Caroline Clark
John – Safe Spaces Project 2025 Noah – Safe Spaces Project 2025 Orla – Safe Spaces Project 2025 Caroline Clark’s exhibition Safe Spaces is currently on at ORTUS gallery in Denmark Hill, London. Bethlem Gallery’s curatorial team organises a seasonal programme of exhibitions with ORTUS, in addition to its own gallery spaces. This week, we sat down […]
In Conversation with Daniel Regan
Extracts from In Conversation with Bethlem Gallery Curator, Karim Sultan (KS), and artist, Daniel Regan (DR) on 22 April 2026 at Bethlem Gallery. Two years in the making, Bethlem Gallery’s latest solo exhibition is by the artist Daniel Regan. It brings together new work that reveals the artist moving beyond pure photography – with exquisite drawings, inks and moving image – to explore themes of family estrangement, […]
In conversation with Bethlem Gallery Chair, Neil Springham
Bethlem Gallery and Bethlem Museum of the Mind Sophie Leighton, Director, Bethlem Gallery, in conversation with Neil Springham, Chair of Bethlem Gallery, about the upcoming Online Symposium: The Art of Practice on the 15 May 2026. Tell me about yourself and why you became Chair of Bethlem Gallery? My background is in fine art. And after that, […]
Interview with Exhibition Poet Jess Murrain
Jess Murrain Karim Sultan This week, Curator Karim Sultan (KS) invites actor, writer and poet Jess Murrain (JM) to discuss her responses to Bethlem Gallery’s latest exhibition, The Places We Know. KS: What does it mean for you to be an “exhibition poet”? JM: It feels very meaningful to be asked to be an exhibition […]