Piecing It Together
Art and Mental Health Project, collage, photo books
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Symposium
Art and Mental Health Symposium Thursday 16th June, 2016, 5.30-7.30pm The Conference Centre, St Pancras Hospital, 4 St Pancras Way, London NW1 0PE Bus: 46, 214 / Tube: Mornington Crescent or Kings Cross/St Pancras Speakers: Helen Killaspy – Professor of Psychiatry, UCL Alexa…
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Exhibition
The collages were on show at The Tavistock Centre, 120 Belsize Lane, London NW3 5BA, weekdays from 8am-8pm until 9th March, 2017. Symposium at St Pancras Hospital Conference Centre, 5.30-7.30pm, Thursday 16th June, all welcome! Photographic prints of the collages were on show at…
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Books
Some project participants made photo-text books to communicate their individual experiences. Click on the thumbnails below to view each book…
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Nearing The End – June-July 2015
Monday 8th June : Centre 1 One of the nurses was in the office when I got there. He was a little stressed because Paula was not well and had been at the centre threatening people with razor blades. She was not there when I arrived, but he said I should keep away if she comes ……
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Collage 23
“It’s not very clear as my mind is quite jumbled up. But these were the images that stood out for me. I feel that I have fallen down into a deep well, so up at the top this would be the sun and the land, these images in the right corner look like ghosts. And … Continue reading…
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Collage 22
“It comes in three bits. This bit on the left, which is my childhood, and then this end bit which is my dreams, and then the middle bit is my reality now. In the first bit I used a picture of a colony of penguins, and they’re all the same. When I moved to live with … Continue…
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Collage 21
‘It is like I’m breaking free of my old life and my old patterns and then going into this complete unknown new world and new life that is yet to be created. A thawing out of the past. In the collage here, that’s all ice. That’s like the archetypal woman. Its not me, but it ……
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Collage 20
‘I was bullied in school and I felt like a social outcast, which led me to be in isolation for a lot of my childhood. This led me to be really angry with the world and with the way people were treating me. So it led me on this search for answers about the government, … Continue…
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Collage 19
“This here, at the bottom, represents my mind. Its just the top of someone’s head. And all this blackness is what’s all around at the moment. The depression. I start with very bad panic attacks and anxiety attacks and then the depression comes in. I start being listless and I…
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Collage 18
“On the right hand side is what I saw as the ideal – beautiful, what I should be like, expensive clothes and the dreamlike state, what women are supposed to be like. At the time I think I was just obsessed with being like everybody else. When I became psychotic it felt as though…