David O'Flynn
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The Adamson Collection is of art objects created by people compelled to live for decades in the UK mental hospital, Netherne, in Edward Adamson's art studios.
London
Joined January 2015
November 6th 2024 Artwork: john gerrard, Flare (Oceania) 2022. Courtesy the artist @john__gerrard and Pace Gallery @PaceGallery
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“We too often forget to do a critical political-economy analysis of the museum: where does the money come from? How much capital does the museum possess within its collections? Who cleans, who cooks, who guards?”
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How to decolonise the Western museum model? Françoise Vergès advocates disordering, decentring and dispersing it
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Adamson on "Art for mental health" in Jean Creedy's 1970 "The Social Context of Art". Of its time... Latest addition to ACT's open access Dropbox, 'Adamson Collection references' https://t.co/Ma4OHBN0Az
@ExploreWellcome @baat_org @RawVisionMag @RegretteRuane @TheAVAM
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Nov. 21, 1961. "Edward Adamson, director of Art at Netherine Hospital, Coulsden, examines some of the paintings, exhibited at the Royal Society of Medicine, Wimpole Street, London" (Keystone Press / Alamy Stock Photo) @WellcomeLibrary @ExploreWellcome @baat_org @RawVisionMag
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Changes at Adamson Collection Trust. Writer & artist Rose Ruane is now Chair. I've handed over after 20 years in post. @RegretteRuane @RawVisionMag @baat_org @ExploreWellcome @Bethlem_Gallery Adamson Collection summary -by December 2024. All about: https://t.co/vs85hQem1z
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In 1979 @WendyVarley volunteered at Netherne. Here remembering two Adamson Collection/Wellcome Collection artists, Rolanda Polonsky (1923-96) & Martin Birch (1935-82) and tea in their summer house https://t.co/kifxXdgQXA
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From the psychiatric hospital where she was compelled to live for over 30 years, Mary Bishop made some of the most affecting images of sadness and isolation in all our collections. Her pictures speak powerfully about despair, but they're also full of tenderness and longing.
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Around 1947, Catalan psychiatrist Francesc Tosquelles proposed shifting the location of cognitive experience from the brain to the feet. “When we walk in the world,” Tosquelles argued, “it isn’t the head that counts, it’s the feet. Knowing where you’re treading.”
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What’s next for the contemporary art biennial, now that the era of neoliberal globalisation that shaped it starts to unravel?
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What’s next for the contemporary art biennial, now that the era of neoliberal globalisation that shaped it starts to unravel?
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INDIGENOUS SHADOW PART. 2 by #EdithDekyndt. Flag made of black hair planted on Diamond Rock, Martinique where a merchant ship smuggling 100 African captives ran aground and was totally destroyed.
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Prof Clair Will's @MECCambridge talk on the enigmatic Adamson Collection artist known as JJ Beegan during @TulcaFestival to watch: https://t.co/Q6f2vPhTm9 Featured @RawVisionMag 88 @ExploreWellcome @baat_org @RegretteRuane @Cambridge_Uni @OutsiderArtFair @Bethlem_Gallery @LRB
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Abandoned Goods Film Screening with talk by Prof. Clair Wills | Ballinasloe Library Ballinasloe Library, Society St, Ballinasloe Friday 17 November 2023 2.30pm - 4.30pm J.J. Beegan was an artist and...
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Includes Clair Wills’ cracking essay on Netherne, the Adamson Colllection, J J. Beegan, Rolanda, Polansky & so much more: “Life Pushed Aside”. @LRB, 2021 @ExploreWellcome @WellcomeLibrary @RawVisionMag @baat @rcpsych @TulcaFestival @HalleStPierre @OutsiderArtFair
Our book of the week is *The Family Plot* by Clair Wills, the first volume in a new series of LRB books. Find out more and order your copy here: https://t.co/za8yOx64He
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@Bethlem_Gallery @maudsleycharity @MaudsleyNHS Adamson Collection Trust celebrates our friend Sue Morgan retrospective @Bethlem_Gallery Sue with us at ‘Art as Healing’ 2015 Launch Adamson Collection/Wellcome Collection. State Rooms, Speaker’s House @HouseofCommons Hosted @CharlesWalkerMP & @KevanJonesMP
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Adamson Collection Trust @adamsontrust joyfully announces writer & artist Rose Ruane joining our board. Welcome aboard Rose Image: @RegretteRuane & @ACTchair, Adamson Collection store, Bethlem Royal Hospital, Jan 2020 @ExploreWellcome @RawVisionMag @ValHuet1 @Bethlem_Gallery
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Something I've been wrangling with is a fundamental of the #Trieste experience and that is that freedom is therapeutic. It's sinking in what this really means. To truly believe that people with mental illness should have as much freedom as possible and that this is GOOD
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The final touches being finished courtesy of @SnapGalway ahead of tonight’s launch at 6pm!🙌 We cannot wait to welcome audiences to the TULCA Gallery, Saint Augustine St, to celebrate the opening of honey, milk and salt in a seashell before sunrise.
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Centenary of sculptor & poet Rolanda Polonsky 1923–1996 @RawVisionMag 116 In 1947 Rolanda went to Zürich, Paris, London, across postwar Europe. Her journey ended in 36 years compelled to live in Netherne https://t.co/t34s9dA1gW
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#BrutJournal ask, what is on your mind? 2 brave women Aji Lewis & @marcia_rigg Use of force & police killings of people in MH crisis https://t.co/vyJRPp1cV5
#senislaw #SeanRigg
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@UFFCampaign @INQUEST_ORG @rcpsych @Bethlem_Gallery @theRRNetwork @normanlamb
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