NHS Foundation TrustCommunity Mental Health Services
Merrydown Park HospitalEast Sussex Recovery Centre
ART THERAPIES UNIT
Sharon Watney
Recovery Centre community support worker
On ways mental health service users in our area find and use art (its appreciation and creation) as self directed therapy.
Supporting material for a presentation to the Trust Board at Linsted House, Conference Room G 2.
Handout Notes
References
An article by Alain de Botton, published in the Guardian newspaper, 2014
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/jan/02/alain-de-botton-guide-art-therapy
A definition
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outsider_art
Outsider Art Fair: In Paris - during October 2018 - as part of the fair (which is showing at Atelier Richelieu, 60 rue de Richelieu; www.outsiderartfair.com) a panel of experts will meet at Auction House #9 in rue Drouot for a discussion on ‘Discovering 170 Years of Historic Art Works by Patients of Mental Asylums’. Those experts will include -
- Thomas Röske: director Prinzhorn Collection, Heidelberg; president European Outsider Art Association
- Professor Katrin Luchsinger, Zürcher Hochschule für Kunst, funded by Swiss government to conserve art produced by asylum patients in 19th Century
- Dr Elisabeth Telsnig: researching more than a century of Salzburg's medical files and the art brut of Joseph Hofer
- Dr David O’Flynn, psychiatrist and board chair of the Adamson Collection (part of the Wellcome Collection of patient art at Lambeth Hospital, London)
- Dr Anne-Marie Dubois, psychiatrist and director of the art collection of the Centre d’etude d’expression, Musée d’Art et d’Histoire de l’Hôpital Sainte-Anne, Paris.
Outside in - an award winning charity working to create a fairer and more inclusive art world
The Bethlem Hospital Gallery
During the Brighton Festival
https://aoh.org.uk/house/may2018/preston-park-recovery-centre-3/
A year of drawing - project to help increase access to the arts for people facing mental health challenges. The originating NHS Trust has disconnected the following link.
https://www.sussexpartnership.nhs.uk/year-of-drawing
Culture, Health and Wellbeing
Disconnected links.
https://www.artshealthandwellbeing.org.uk/
Mind’s Creative Therapies Fund
https://www.mind.org.uk/about-us/local-minds/creative-therapies-fund/ Fund appears to have ceased
Skills training & mentoring for artists under-represented in the mainstream art world
https://www.creativefuture.org.uk/
Artspace Brighton - charity providing a community based art studio
https://www.artspacebrighton.org.uk/
University postgraduate studies
https://www.brighton.ac.uk/caw/what-we-do/projects/inclusive-arts-practices.aspx