Past Programs
Arts and Culture - 2006
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Reclaiming imagination: art, psychosis and the creative mind
14/10/2006
The imagination of an artist living with schizophrenia can feel like it's been colonised...by diagnostic labels, by medication and by the often unforgiving and frightening contents of hallucinations or delusions. What then does it mean to reclaim imagination? Is madness a muse or a hurdle? Artists Simon Champ and James de Blas are joined by acclaimed pop artist Martin Sharp, to reflect on the perplexing nature of our imaginative selves.
Outsider art
11/03/2006
For some individuals living with psychosis, art-making becomes an act of necessity, a way to bring coherence to experiences that threaten to overwhelm. We meet an artist whose hallucinatory episodes serve as inspiration for paintings and drawings, as we learn about the fascinating history of outsider art.
