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Call for MAKERS

The Art House in Worcester is the venue for the 'Illustrating Mental Health' symposium and exhibition 8-9 November 2019

We would now like to put out a call for makers, to invite proposals for an accompanying exhibition that will address the theme of the symposium ‘illustrating mental health’, which can include but is not limited to:

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o The use of illustration to depict mental health issues
o Graphic memoirs, autobiographical graphic novels on the subject of mental

health
o Historical depictions of mental health
o Medical illustrations of mental health conditions
o Trauma illustrated / unlocking trauma
o The use of illustration in art therapy
o Co-produced illustration with those with lived experience of mental health issueso Illustration as self-help, colouring books, visualisation exercises
o Craft, illustration and making for wellbeing
o Illustration that enables children to understand mental health issues
o Illustrators working with adults with dementia
o How can images help when language has left the body?
o Narratives of the unconscious; psychoanalytic approaches to illustration
o Archetypes in storytelling and myth as metaphor for psychological dynamics
o Does contemporary image culture contribute to mental distress?
o The pathologised imagination – art produced in medical or institutional contexts

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We welcome proposals for exhibits in the form of images, artefacts and performance based work

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We also welcome visualised research in the form of poster presentations.

Please send up to 3 images and a 100 word statement about the work in pdf format to Desdemona McCannon [d.mccannon@worc.ac.uk] and Tobias Hickey [t.hickey@worc.ac.uk] by Friday July 5th.

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Hi resolution scans of selected artworks must be sent to us for digital printing by September 6th 2019

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Please note: costs associated with non digital prints ie. Original images and objects proposed for display, for instance insurance and carriage, must be carried by the artist.