Links to support the exhibition.
Artworks in Mental Health
http://www.artworksinmentalhealth.co.uk/index.html
Seeks to promote a wide variety of art produced by people who are
affected in some way by mental illness. The site includes an online
gallery where selected exhibits can be viewed. The website is supported
by a regional exhibition programme running throughout 2002 and 2003.
Sponsored by Pfizer.
Life Lessons from Multiple Personality
http://www.multiple-personality.com/
Judy Castelli has used her experiences of multiple personality disorder
and her creative talents to put together a website of line drawings
and poetry. The site aims to give people an insight into the condition
and to offer support to those people who have been diagnosed with
multiple personality disorder.
National Artists for Mental Health
http://www.namh.org/
NAMH is a service user led organisation based in New York that promotes
arts to develop, foster and promote self- help recovery. This site
hosts the "Pillows of Unrest" exhibition - an anti- stigma
campaign that encourages participants to use a pillowcase as a "canvas"
to express their emotions via artwork, poetry and slogans.
SANE Gallery
http://www.sane.org/artsgallery.html
This site is part on SANE Australia - a national charity that helps
people affected by mental illness. The site has an on line exhibition
entitled "Inside Out" which includes works by people who
have experienced mental health problems. The collection has been
put together as part of a community arts project.
The Arts and Healing Network
http://www.artheals.org/
The Arts and Healing Network website aims to celebrate the link
between art and healing. The site acts as a resource for anybody
who is interested in getting involved in an arts based project.
The site includes work by individual artists, information about
community projects and bulletin boards through which information
can be shared.
The Bethlem Gallery
http://www.iop.kcl.ac.uk/main/Gallery.htm
The Bethlem Gallery is a permanent exhibition space in the grounds
of the Bethlem Royal Hospital. It shows art by any service users
of the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust. The site holds information
and pictures from past exhibitions as well as information on how
to get to the Gallery to visit current exhibitions.
The Human Face of Mental Health http://www.health.qld.gov.au/artinres/index.html
Austrailian
District Mental Health Service set up this site to promote work
by Australian artist Joanne Kaspari , artist in residence at Toowomba.
Her role at the hospital has been to develop art for people who
access this mental health service. The exhibition displayed on the
website is a collection of material collected over the last year
that seeks to reflect the diversity of people who live with "mental
illness". The work aims to highlight the human face of people
with mental health problems and break down stereotypes.
2001: Mind Odyssey
http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/campaigns/2001/poetry.htm
2001: A Mind Odyssey is an initiative, organised by the Royal College
of Psychiatrists, to celebrate the arts, psychiatry and the mind.
The site has a poetry corner and examples of work that were displayed
over the year 2001. Of particular interest are David Hart's poems
on life in wards for older people.
The mind out for mental health campaign is not liable
for the contents of any external internet sites listed, nor does
it endorse any commercial product or service mentioned.
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