Voting Rights
Photo credit: Joseph Alford Dolly Sen’s ‘The World’s Biggest Tiny Placard Protest’* On Monday 20th May, artist Dolly Sen ran an event at Bethlem Royal Hospital that toured different sites around the hospital, speaking to patients and staff about their right to vote and the support people need to exercise that right. We want to […]
Bethlem Gallery x South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust Art Strategy
Installation view, Art & Value, Bethlem Gallery, 2019. Photo Ben McDade. The contribution that the arts can make to hospital and clinical environments has been well documented, most recently through the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing report in 2017. One of the key findings of the report is as follows: The arts […]
Mental Health and Justice Project
Image courtesy Dolly Sen Bethlem Gallery’s Mental Health & Justice Project2018-2022 Led by artists. Collaborating with research. Engaging the public. Read Bethlem Gallery’s Mental Health and Justice Report here. “Art can highlight injustice. Art can give a voice to injustice. Art can mourn injustice, Art can welcome the rage of injustice, or could also show what […]
Pears Maudsley Centre and Douglas Bennett House
Drawing by Sarah Carpenter Bethlem Gallery has been appointed by South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust to develop and deliver an Art Strategy for two new clinical facilities on the Trust’s Denmark Hill Campus – a centre for adults called New Douglas Bennett House and the Pears Maudsley Centre for Children and Young People. […]