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‘You, Me and the Sky’
Louise Camrass is a multi-disciplinary artist living in London. The exhibition sees a juxtaposition between her figurative and abstract works. Inspired by editing films or writing poetry, the works highlight where narrative and abstract forms can coexist and work together to create a new sense of something.
Drawn Together Exhibition
Drawn Together was a creative community for the over 50s using arts practices to support connection, explore ways of seeing, sensing and experiencing ourselves and one another, and deepening curiosity. This exhibition is a selection of the work created throughout the 8 week project.
Stitched Drawings
Georgie Meadows: Stitched Drawings brings together 24 textile artworks which explore personal experiences of ageing and dementia. Meadows crafts uniquely affecting and compassionate portraits, translating line drawings of people she knows or has cared for into stitched works.
Seeing Sound
Seeing Sound brings together a partnership between The British Library, the Free Space Project (London) and The Brain Charity (Liverpool) to explore language through natural sounds taken from The British Library’s extensive sound archive. The work created during workshops with people living with Aphasia is now on show in our exhibition space at Kentish Town Health Centre
Freedom to Be
Freedom to Be was a creative project funded by the National Lottery Community Fund. During the pandemic we were able to redirect funding to deliver a creative project for patients from the James Wigg Practice and Queens Crescent Practice who were shielding over the summer of 2020. The work is on show at Queens Crescent practice and Kentish Town Health Centre
Unseen
Suzie Larke is a visual artist and photographer from Cardiff. Her project uses conceptual photography to depict the mental health experiences experiences of a group of participants. She uses constructed imagery, digitally stitching photographs together in such a way that they present as a single, untampered image.
Life on a Spectrum
Life on a Spectrum was a virtual exhibition. The exhibition was part of our Creative Wellbeing commissions featuring the work of Mahlia Amatina. The exhibition explores Autism through collaborative painting and video works.
On a scale from 1 to 10
On a scale from 1 to 10 was a virtual exhibition. The exhibition was part of our Creative Wellbeing commissions featuring the work of Liliana Zaharia. On a scale from 1 to 10 explores how it feels living with chronic pain through photography.
Mindful Transformations
Our first virtual exhibition as a part of our Creative Wellbeing commissions featured the work of Hisba Brimah. Hisba’s exhibition Mindful Transformations shares Hisba’s colourful geometric paintings plastered on the walls of our virtual gallery space.
Everyday Delight
We have teamed up with Shutter Hub to bring you EVERYDAY DELIGHT, an exhibition all about looking for the joy in the small things, finding the magic in what might at first appear mundane, and discovering the beauty in the everyday.
Every Body is an Archive
Liz Orton’s project Every Body is an Archive explores the bounds of medical imaging data, entangling the biological, digital and social body. In mis/using professional radiology software, Orton’s work makes visible the spaces and limits of medical data reconstruction.
A Constant Companion
In this solo exhibition Zara shares works from both past and present projects exploring pain. From the ritual of taking medication in The Painkiller Prints to visualising both physical and psychological trauma with her on-going series Distress.
In the Mind
In the Mind is an illustration exhibition exploring mental health by artists Elsbeth van der Poel and Kathryn Watson. Through their unique drawing styles each artist has created a fantastical world of monsters, friends, worries and hope based on their own lived experience.
When Swallows Return
When Swallows Return is a powerful exhibition of sculptures, collages and prints that provide visual insight into some of the effects of stroke, and which reference and validate stroke survivors’ own experiences.
I Want to Live
I Want to Live is a project run by photographer Daniel Regan and suicide respite centre Maytree. The project comprises a number of interviews and photographic portraits of Maytree’s volunteer workforce, investigating what brings people to volunteer with those in suicidal crisis, volunteers’ own mental health experiences and the impact of suicide.
The One I Love
Naomi Woddis is a photographer living with two chronic invisible conditions, Lyme Disease and Ehlers Danlos Syndrome. Over the late summer of 2017 Naomi was the artist in residence at the Free Space Project, the arts & wellbeing charity based within Kentish Town Health Centre.
That’s Where I Come In
We are pleased to be working again with ActionSpace, a charity that supports the development of artists with learning disabilities.
PKD Studies
Paloma Tendero‘s work is based on the influence of genetic inheritance. This exhibition is the result of a two-month artist in residence project at Kentish Town Health Centre, where Tendero looks for an interpretation of the beauty behind illness. Through photography and embroidery she explores the beauty of PKD cells.
Traces
In Traces 17 multidisciplinary artists that attend the peer group at the Free Space Project explore who we have been, where we are now and who we would like to be. The artist peer group is a monthly event for artists that are exploring health and wellbeing in their practice, often covering complex and emotional experiences.