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News | Newyddion

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Johannes Gerard, 'A State of Bared'

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

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'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, 3ydd Ebrill 2025. Delweddau trwy garedigrwydd Tim Kavanagh a Jenny Alderton

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

Dysgwch fwy am ein cydweithwyr a'r gwaith maen nhw'n ei wneud o fewn eu sefydliadau a thu hwnt.

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‘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 

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

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

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‘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

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‘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

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The Dark Mountain Project: Issue 27 Launches!

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

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

by Maria Popova, The Marginalian, 26 March 2025

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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 

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

Theres Lüthi,
The Guardian, Sat 18 Jan 2025 

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

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

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Bobby Baker Diary Drawings: Mental Illness and Me 

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

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Transfusion  

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

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Donald Rodney 'Visceral Canker' Touring Exhibition

Nottingham Contemporary: 
28 Sept 2024 - 5 January 2025

 

Resources | Adnoddau

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Exhibition Catalogue

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Bilingual A3 exhibition poster

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Funded by the Arts Council of Wales Create Fund
and the University of South Wales 

Copyright © 2025 DESERTERS - All rights reserved. 

© All text and images copyright of the artists and authors 

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