Friday 18th October - Thursday 24th October
Our exhibition this year will showcase our latest project at the Hellingly Centre, a forensic medium secure mental health unit in Sussex and includes artwork by Richard Wentworth, Lothar Götz, Hannah Brown, Tim A Shaw, Jonathan Trayte and Sophie Clements; as well as by the community of patients and staff.
Scroll down to learn more about the full programme of events including the launch party and 20x20 art sale, film screenings, talks, and family-friendly art workshops with Hospital Rooms artists.
Further information about Hospital Rooms and our other events can be found on our website.
PROGRAMME:
RSVP to individual events by following the links below.
Hospital Rooms Launch Party & 2020 Fundraiser
Friday 18th October / 18:00 - 23:30
Join us to celebrate the opening of Hospital Rooms' residency at Elephant West. Artists have generously donated original artworks of 20x20cm that will be sold anonymously for £50 each during the evening. All proceeds will go towards Hospital Rooms’ 2020 programme.
Mural Workshop with Remi Rough
Saturday 19 October 2019 / 12:00 - 16:00
Create a large scale wall mural in the gallery with artist Remi Rough. Join us to hear about Remi's recent project with Hospital Rooms at a Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit for men in Bethlem Hospital and learn more about how he works.
Art for a Women's Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit with Dr Faisil Sethi
Sunday 20 October / 11:15 - 12:00
Consultant Psychiatrist Dr Faisil Sethi presents the evidence around why Hospital Rooms art projects have an impact in locked and secure mental health units.
Talk and Cyanotype Workshop with Steve Macleod
Sunday 20 October 2019 / 12:45 - 13:45
Meet Steve Macleod who has worked with Hospital Rooms on two projects across locked rehabilitation mental health units. Steve's work reflects on his own diagnosis of bipolar and he will talk about how this has influenced his Hospital Rooms commissions. We'll also be creating cyanotype artworks during the session.
Fashion and Identity Panel Discussion with Natalie Tilbury
Sunday 20 October / 14:00 - 14:45
Dress (encompassing clothing, tattoos, jewellery and all other forms of body adornment) is a complex form of communication and a performative act. In a locked mental health environment, is it possible to redefine the ‘currency’ of fashion, or certain types of dress? How do men there feel about the way they dress and can personal items be an aid to recovery?
Family Friendly Art Workshop with Tamsin Relly
Sunday 20 October / 15:00 - 16:00
Meet Tamsin Relly who recently created a beautiful artwork for a mother and baby mental health unit in Exeter with Hospital Rooms. Hear about her experience and take part in a printing workshop. Bring the kids!
In Focus: Hellingly Centre Panel Discussion
Sunday 20 October - 16:15 - 17:00
Hear from the team that worked together to transform the Hellingly Centre, a forensic mental health unit in Sussex, and contribute your ideas for future projects.
Closing Drinks
Sunday 20 October / 17:00 - 20:00
Reflect on the day’s events with us over some refreshments at the Fuel Bar. (Pay bar)
Unreason is Reason Dazzled Live Podcast Recording with Phoebe Eustance
Tuesday 22 October / 18:30 - 19:30
…we must understand it not as reason diseased, or as reason lost or alienated, but quite simply as reason dazzled – Michel Foucault
This episode looks at the active role of art as a record of, and occasional witness to, changing perceptions of mental health through history and culture. Borrowing from diverse voices, this live recording centres around three artworks painted on the walls of mental health institutes and explores how their presence can give agency and alternate meaning to ensuing events. The focus is on a mid-20th century fresco located in a former psychiatric hospital in Arezzo, Italy and two works created with Hospital Rooms this year by a patient and artist respectively.
Programmed by Phoebe Eustance, Hospital Rooms Project Coordinator
with Jess Oglethorpe, Occupational Therapist
Reaching Outside Film Screening, Bringing Art to Mental Health Units
Thursday 24 October / 18:30 - 20:30
Across six short films, you will see how the work of artists Hannah Brown, Steve Macleod, Harold Offeh, Mark Titchner and Tim A Shaw is being shown where people least expect it, on the walls of locked and secure mental health units across the UK.
This will be followed by a Q&A with Mark Titchner, Steve Macleod, Hannah Brown and Tim A Shaw.
This film series has been generously funded by The Space.
Venue:
Elephant West
62 Wood Lane London, W12 7RH
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