About the talk

What is the connection between art, sucking your thumb, mental health, psychotherapy and social change?!

Come on a gentle journey to find out what we can learn about art from art therapy, psychotherapy, and child development. Is there any truth to the idea that emotional and mental health struggles help us make art? If therapy can cure our problems, does it stop us making good art? Can artists learn anything about art from psychotherapy?

Along the journey we'll consider how art might emerge from how we relate to each other, and what role art might play in the space between us all.

About the speaker

Oliver Campbell is an artist and member of Lewisham Arthouse. He works as an Art Therapist, working with adults and adolescents with mental health difficulties in the NHS and at an alternative provision school.

This talk is part of the collateral events for TASC at Hand 2022 exhibition at The Muse Gallery.

TASC at Hand 2022 by The Artist Support Centre

EXHIBITION X TALKS X WORKSHOPS

old hands and new faces come together in a special event

17 - 26 Aug | open daily 12-6pm

The Muse Gallery, 269 Portobello Road, Notting Hill, London, W11 1 LR, UK

Find out more here: www.theartistsupportcentre.com/tascathand2022