For several days over September, Bethlem Gallery will become a residency space for artist Sarah Carpenter as she tries to foreground feeling and immediacy over thinking and contemplation through making a series of new large-scale artworks.

‘Can I feel my way in order to create something authentic and true? I hope to give space to my instinct, move out of my head and into my body, working with a focus on physicality and materials.’

This residency space forms the final part of Sarah Carpenter’s commission exploring metacognition (thinking about thinking, knowing about knowing, becoming aware of one’s awareness) as part of Bethlem Gallery’s Mental Health and Justice Project, funded by Wellcome. Sarah will be using responses from her digital work, Performing Metacognition in the residency space to think through ideas about control and agency. To respond to Performing Metacognition, please click here.

Saturday 4^th September, 10am-5pm

Artist Sarah Carpenter will be working in the residency space over the day, come and see her works developing & meet her to find out more about her work.

Wed 8^th, Thurs 9^th and Friday 10^th September, 10am-5pm

Explore Sarah’s residency space as it has developed.