Includes Clair Wills’ cracking essay on Netherne, the Adamson Colllection, J J. Beegan, Rolanda, Polansky & so much more: “Life Pushed Aside”. London Review of Books, 2021 Wellcome Collection Wellcome Library Raw Vision Magazine baat Royal College of Psychiatrists TULCA Festival of Visual Arts @HalleStPierre Outsider Art Fair

#BrutJournal ask, what is on your mind? 2 brave women Aji Lewis & Marcia Rigg Use of force & police killings of people in MH crisis brutjournal.com/article/whats-… #senislaw #SeanRigg justiceforseni.com United Families & Friends Campaign (UFFC) INQUEST Royal College of Psychiatrists Bethlem Gallery Restraint Reduction Network Norman Lamb

Centenary of sculptor & poet Rolanda Polonsky 1923–1996 Raw Vision Magazine 116 In 1947 Rolanda went to Zürich, Paris, London, across postwar Europe. Her journey ended in 36 years compelled to live in Netherne player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watc… Wellcome Collection British Association of Art Therapists (BAAT) @RegretteRuane American Visionary Art Museum

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

Adamson Collection Trust AdamsonTrust joyfully announces writer & artist Rose Ruane joining our board. Welcome aboard Rose Image: @RegretteRuane & David O'Flynn, Adamson Collection store, Bethlem Royal Hospital, Jan 2020 Wellcome Collection Raw Vision Magazine @ValHuet1 Bethlem Gallery

Bethlem Gallery Maudsley Charity NHS Maudsley 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 UK House of Commons Hosted @CharlesWalkerMP & @KevanJonesMP Wellcome Collection

Prof Clair Will's Murray Edwards College talk on the enigmatic Adamson Collection artist known as JJ Beegan during TULCA Festival of Visual Arts to watch: tulca.ie/events/2023/11… Featured Raw Vision Magazine 88 Wellcome Collection British Association of Art Therapists (BAAT) @RegretteRuane Cambridge University Outsider Art Fair Bethlem Gallery London Review of Books

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.

What’s next for the contemporary art biennial, now that the era of neoliberal globalisation that shaped it starts to unravel? artreview.com/the-biennale-a…

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.”

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.

In 1979 Wendy Varley 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 open.substack.com/pub/wendyvarle… @RegretteRuane Wellcome Collection Raw Vision Magazine British Association of Art Therapists (BAAT)

Changes at Adamson Collection Trust. Writer & artist Rose Ruane is now Chair. I've handed over after 20 years in post. @RegretteRuane Raw Vision Magazine British Association of Art Therapists (BAAT) Wellcome Collection Bethlem Gallery Adamson Collection summary -by December 2024. All about: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Ad…

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) Wellcome Library Wellcome Collection British Association of Art Therapists (BAAT) Raw Vision Magazine

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' dropbox.com/scl/fo/cszq0k9… Wellcome Collection British Association of Art Therapists (BAAT) Raw Vision Magazine @RegretteRuane American Visionary Art Museum

“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?” artreview.com/the-disordered…

Skylon, Festival of Britain 1951 Powell and Moya bit.ly/4dEGpy7

Abandoned Film Theatre in Dresden Germany.

November 6th 2024 Artwork: john gerrard, Flare (Oceania) 2022. Courtesy the artist j gerrard and Pace Gallery Pace Gallery