A Poem by David Gilbert on World Poetry Day
You Didn’t Tell Me You didn’t tell me there would be days when I could walk outon a garden by a low stone wall and breeze from the Baltic. You didn’t tell me there would be chaffinches in the oakand gentle hill curving down to the reeds, lake and an empty boat. You […]
A Poem by David Gilbert on Valentine’s Day
All Along Love does what love does best –keeps itself going in the background for when it’s needed.Old Mr Reliable. Like our black-and-white telly, late afternoons,the simmering casserole or my grandfather mumbling prayerswe couldn’t hear, let alone understand or a child’s bedside light left on. Apollo,the budgerigar, chuckling into his mirror. His little bell. My […]
Founders Award Winners 2022
Amber Jesson, Where blue sea glass is buried Natasha Connell, Flying with Colour Lil Dios, The last Kingdom in the land of man Founders Award Winners 2022 Bethlem Gallery is delighted to share here the works of the 2022 Founders Prize Award Winners: Amber Jesson, Lil Dios and Natasha Connell. Every year as part of […]
Working with Beckmead Trust Schools: In Pictures
As part of our events for the The Big Draw 2022, we’ve been collaborating with local schools to get their input and help with designing our workshops. The photographs below are from workshops with students from Beckmead Park Academy and Chaffinch Brook School, part of the Beckmead Trust. Beckmead Park Academy is an all-through, mixed SEN school […]
A Poem by David Gilbert on World Mental Health Day
But Lesley-Anne Everyone I know here is tiredand trying to shake offan invisible layer of dustas if love might existsomewhere in the pileor down the back of the sofa. I used to believe it was onlya mad minority of uswho didn’t understandhow to live – or whereleaving endsand total departure begins. Now getting used to […]
Bethlem Gallery 2021-22: In Pictures
Emerging out of the Covid-19 Pandemic, in the last year or so, Bethlem Gallery has returned to public programming in our gallery and studio as restrictions have allowed, welcoming artists and visitors back to our space and the grounds of Bethlem Royal Hospital for exhibitions and events. We’ve just published our latest Annual Review, […]