A event held at Arnolfini on Monday 21st December. The event starts at 12:00.
Jo Spence: From Fairytales to Phototherapy
Photographs from the Hyman Collection
Drawn from one of the most comprehensive collections of Jo Spence's works in the world, From Fairytales to Phototherapy focuses on the intersection between arts, health and wellbeing, celebrating her work as a photo therapist in which she used photography as a medium to address personal trauma, reflecting on key moments in her past.
A Picture of Health: Women Photographers from the Hyman Collection
A group exhibition of contemporary women photographers featuring autobiographical perspectives and social commentaries on the wider society, that aims to de-stigmatise subjects around mental health and create an environment in which people can have open conversations about their wellbeing. A Picture of Health includes work by Heather Agyepong, Sonia Boyce, Eliza Hatch, Susan Hiller, Rose Finn-Kelcey, Anna Fox, Rosy Martin, Polly Penrose, Jo Spence, and Paloma Tendero.
A Picture of Health: Look at This Skin... It Keeps Changing
A programme of artist films exploring wellness, recovery and ageing. Selected to accompany A Picture of Health.
Poleaxed Helen Petts
1996, 16mm, colour, stereo, 14 mins
Funded by the Arts Council of England.
A meditation on stillness and perception made during a long illness. A woman sits by the fountain in her local park. As the seasons change, she sees her life and the world around her clearly for the first time.
Pictures of Linda
Anna Fox
2007, video, colour, stereo, 14.30 minutes
Funded by the Arts Council of England and University for the Creative Arts, Farnham
Photographer Anna Fox’s film of musician Linda Lunas is part of a long-time collaboration, accompanying a series of portraits of Lunas in A Picture of Health. In moving from photography to film, Fox creates space for Lunas to share, in her own words, her experience of mental health.
Re: exposure
Vicky Smith
2020, 16mm hand processed B&W, animation / live action, 10 mins
Part-funded by Arnolfini.
The film is a reflection on exposure, and on change, of skin to sun and of film to light, and the environmental, social and hereditary factors that impact the aging process.
Songs Found Between Sky and Ground
Many Minds and Verity Standen
2020, documentation of Zoom performance, 10.23 mins
‘We’ve all been separated by lockdown, but there was a storm happening. We have been going through the same storm.’
Over a 9 week period, Many Minds members and composer Verity Standen devised a series of melodies and performance about our experiences of the natural world during lockdown.
The Path Leads to Bristol
A collaborative exhibition, developed in partnership with Bridges for Communities, a Bristol-based charity that connects people of different cultures, races and faiths in order to facilitate friendship and build understanding. Arnolfini approached Bridges to create a local response to Hassan Hajjaj’s exhibition The Path, and Bridges in turn invited a number of people involved in their work to take part in a photoshoot exploring themes of culture, identity and story. These images were captured by Bridges volunteers and graphic designers Safia and Samira Belhaj, sisters whose own journey has included life in Libya, the United States and now Bristol.
Arnolfini Gallery CIO, registered charity number: 311504
Entry requirements:
Photographs from the Hyman Collection
Drawn from one of the most comprehensive collections of Jo Spence's works in the world, From Fairytales to Phototherapy focuses on the intersection between arts, health and wellbeing, celebrating her work as a photo therapist in which she used photography as a medium to address personal trauma, reflecting on key moments in her past.
A Picture of Health: Women Photographers from the Hyman Collection
A group exhibition of contemporary women photographers featuring autobiographical perspectives and social commentaries on the wider society, that aims to de-stigmatise subjects around mental health and create an environment in which people can have open conversations about their wellbeing. A Picture of Health includes work by Heather Agyepong, Sonia Boyce, Eliza Hatch, Susan Hiller, Rose Finn-Kelcey, Anna Fox, Rosy Martin, Polly Penrose, Jo Spence, and Paloma Tendero.
A Picture of Health: Look at This Skin... It Keeps Changing
A programme of artist films exploring wellness, recovery and ageing. Selected to accompany A Picture of Health.
Poleaxed Helen Petts
1996, 16mm, colour, stereo, 14 mins
Funded by the Arts Council of England.
A meditation on stillness and perception made during a long illness. A woman sits by the fountain in her local park. As the seasons change, she sees her life and the world around her clearly for the first time.
Pictures of Linda
Anna Fox
2007, video, colour, stereo, 14.30 minutes
Funded by the Arts Council of England and University for the Creative Arts, Farnham
Photographer Anna Fox’s film of musician Linda Lunas is part of a long-time collaboration, accompanying a series of portraits of Lunas in A Picture of Health. In moving from photography to film, Fox creates space for Lunas to share, in her own words, her experience of mental health.
Re: exposure
Vicky Smith
2020, 16mm hand processed B&W, animation / live action, 10 mins
Part-funded by Arnolfini.
The film is a reflection on exposure, and on change, of skin to sun and of film to light, and the environmental, social and hereditary factors that impact the aging process.
Songs Found Between Sky and Ground
Many Minds and Verity Standen
2020, documentation of Zoom performance, 10.23 mins
‘We’ve all been separated by lockdown, but there was a storm happening. We have been going through the same storm.’
Over a 9 week period, Many Minds members and composer Verity Standen devised a series of melodies and performance about our experiences of the natural world during lockdown.
The Path Leads to Bristol
A collaborative exhibition, developed in partnership with Bridges for Communities, a Bristol-based charity that connects people of different cultures, races and faiths in order to facilitate friendship and build understanding. Arnolfini approached Bridges to create a local response to Hassan Hajjaj’s exhibition The Path, and Bridges in turn invited a number of people involved in their work to take part in a photoshoot exploring themes of culture, identity and story. These images were captured by Bridges volunteers and graphic designers Safia and Samira Belhaj, sisters whose own journey has included life in Libya, the United States and now Bristol.
Arnolfini Gallery CIO, registered charity number: 311504
Entry requirements:
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