'Curating Mental Health'
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Venue:
Birkbeck 43 Gordon Square
From the Wellcome Collection's new Being Human galleries to And Breathe… at Manchester Art Gallery, museums and galleries around the UK are increasingly tackling issues of mental health within their displays. Museum spaces are now becoming a vital space for pressing conversations on wellbeing, care and mental health to emerge, through permanent collection displays, exhibitions, workshops and talks. But what is at stake in these displays? What ethical and practical issues do they throw up and how might they speak to the relationships between preconception and experience, stereotype and stigma?
Exploring how curators respond to these challenges, the Centre for Museum Cultures welcomes Clare Barlow from the Science Museum and Michaela Ross from Bethlem Gallery for a panel discussion on these themes, drawing upon their experience as curators of exhibitions that deal with mental health.
Contact name:
Hannah Lyons
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Clare Barlow
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Clare Barlow is a Curator (Team Lead, Exhibitions) at the Science Museum, London. Previously she was Project Curator at the Wellcome Collection.
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Michaela Ross
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Michaela Ross is an artist, researcher and curator from Bethlem Gallery, London.