Our Blog - art

Celebrate World Sleep Day with Brian Charnley’s ‘Sleep’…..

Guest blogger Olivia Bladen turns the spotlight onto Sketch of an Idea for Crazy Jane, one of the lesser known works of the Victorian fairy painter and Bethlem patient Richard Dadd. 

"Scaling the Citadel" curator Rebecca Lodge takes a deeper look at one of Stanley Lench's earliest works, "Dancing Cats." 

A look in to the rising recognition of art to mental health in our cultural institutions, by Bethlem Museum volunteer Georgina. 

A peek into the vibrant world of Stanley Lench, written by one of our volunteers. 

​Nearly 100 paintings from the Bethlem collection can be seen online thanks to a hugely ambitious project by the BBC and the Public Catalogue Foundation.

This month's 'In the Frame' is written by Mansions in the Orchard Researcher, Dr Jennifer Walke.

Liz Atkin, a visual artist based in London, talks about her site specific performance at the Dragon Cafe in September 2014, compulsive skin picking and the power of creativity in recovery.

Read this month's 'In the Frame' from Conservator, Jillian Gregory.

Tom Rakewell ends his days in Bethlem Hospital.

'Just what is that in the bottom corner?' - new perspectives on William Kurelek's The Maze

This month's In the Frame image can be purchased as an Advent calendar, as our Archivist explains...but be quick!

Tom Rakewell is consigned to debtors’ prison.

Read this month's 'In The Frame' from our former Registrar, Rebecca, who sadly left us last month for pastures new.

Tom Rakewell gambles his fortune away.