Researching Wellcome Trust's Art and Health Collection with Outside In on their Step-Up Course


It has been a privilage to work on Outside In on their Step Up Programme to help research some of the Art and Health Collection that if held by the Wellcome Trust. This is a series of images that depict the actual research process of looking at the Adamson Collection, Art produced by patients at Netherne Hospital in Surrey during the time that Edward Adamson managed the Art class there from 1946-1981.

Joan Wisdom

Having had the privilage of looking through the Adamson Collection at the Wellcome Trust of paintings done by patients at Netherne Mental Hospital, I was drawn to the work of Joan Wisdom, a patient during the 1960's

A full account of her work and my artistic response can be found on Blue Sunflower Blog