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News | Newyddion

Horatio Clare: In Conversation/Mewn Sgwrs

Oriel y Bont, USW, Trefforest
29/05/2025. 6 - 8pm.

Book tickets on Eventbrite

Johannes Gerard, 'A State of Bared'

Live performance & talk at DESERTERS opening, 3rd April 2025

'The development of this exhibition and wider project has a unique context'

How we started a conversation with Creative & Therapeutic Arts BA course leader Heloise Godfrey-Talbot and her students.

Exhibition opening at Oriel y Bont, 3rd April 2025.
Images courtesy Tim Kavanagh & Jenny Alderton

Agoriad yr arddangosfa yn Oriel y Bont, 3 Ebrill 2025. Delweddau drwy garedigrwydd Tim Kavanagh a Jenny Alderton.

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Exhibition opening at Oriel y Bont

Exhibition opening at Oriel y Bont, 3rd April 2025

Exhibition opening at Oriel y Bont

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Find out more about our collaborators and the work they do within their organisations and beyond.

Dysgwch fwy am ein cydweithwyr a’u gwaith o fewn eu sefydliadau ac yn ehangach yn y gymuned.

‘Put art skills into practice and explore the relationship between creativity and wellbeing’.

Creative and Therapeutic Arts: A practical, inclusive BA degree based at USW Trefforest Campus

‘A platform for connection, transformation and social change’.

Platfform: working to change approaches to mental health in the community

‘A unique educational and cultural resource with a strong sense of contemporary and historical place & identity’

Oriel y Bont: home to a collection of artworks focusing upon the visual culture of south Wales since 1939.

Articles | Erthyglau

‘You have the experience of a sick person but it’s not yours’: Leeds art installation explores being a carer

Robyn Vinter,

The Guardian, Tues 1 April 2025

The Dark Mountain Project: Issue 27 Launches!

Celebrating a new collection of writing and artwork on things bodily and broken
Thursday 17 April 2025

The Healing Power of Gardens: Oliver Sacks on the Psychological and Physiological Consolations of Nature

by Maria Popova, The Marginalian, 26 March 2025

'Pathemata' by Maggie Nelson review – a writer’s attempt to describe chronic pain

Sinead Gleeson,The Guardian, Mon 5 May 2025

‘Helen Chadwick: Artist, Researcher, Archivist'

Archive Gallery Exhibition
Leeds Art Gallery

4 April - 4 November 2025

Horatio Clare New Book!

Your Journey Your Way:

How to make the mental health system work for you

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The mind/body revolution: how the division between ‘mental’ and ‘physical’ illness fails us all

Aida Edemariam,
The Guardian, Sat 26 Jan 2025

‘We think of the body as a map’: a new approach to deciphering long Covid

Theres Lüthi,
The Guardian, Sat 18 Jan 2025

A Picture of Health:
Jo Spence, a Politics of Disability and Illness

a multi-pronged project curated by Kenny Fries and Elisabeth Frost.

Bobby Baker Diary Drawings: Mental Illness and Me

Book review by Katya Robin for
Graphic Medicine, 23 May 2022

Transfusion

Webzine review by Katya Robin for Graphic Medicine, 28 December 2021

Donald Rodney 'Visceral Canker' Touring Exhibition

Nottingham Contemporary:
28 Sept 2024 - 5 January 2025

Resources | Adnoddau

exhibition catalogues

Catalog Arddangosfa

Exhibition Catalogue

Bilingual A3 exhibition poster