Everything is connected in life: Art and Wellbeing

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The Gerald Moore Gallery is delighted to present Everything is connected in life: Art and Wellbeing, an exhibition that serves as a conclusion to the gallery’s 3-year Art Therapy and Wellbeing in Schools Project as well as exploring connections between art and mental wellbeing in three emerging artists’ works. The title of the exhibition is inspired by a hand-written statement by an unnamed man in Gillian Wearing’s photographic work Signs that say what you want them to say and not Signs that say what someone else wants you to say 1992–1993 (1997). 

The exhibition will run from 11 January to 3 February 2024.

The Private View is on Thursday 11 January from 6 - 8.30pm. 

The gallery is open to the public Saturdays 10am - 4pm or by appointment for other days.

Arts in health interventions by practicing artists in gallery spaces and with collections are increasingly recognized as invaluable ways to support people’s wellbeing outside of clinical settings. Clinical Art therapy into museums and galleries is an emerging area of international practice. The Gerald Moore Gallery has combined these approaches in our innovative Art Therapy and Wellbeing in Schools Project that was generously supported by Mottingham Big Local Refocused. Over the past 3 years, we have worked with 3 primary state schools in the Mottingham Big Local area to support the emotional wellbeing of pupils and their teachers during the Pandemic and beyond using art. Everything is connected in life: Art and Wellbeing will showcase this exciting project and how the gallery artworks, and setting has contributed to people’s wellbeing in the schools.