About this Event
As part of Where Is My Mind?, join artists Asa Aryoshi-Pope, Madinah Farhannah Thompson, Lindsey Mendick and Guy Oliver for a conversation about Medic*tion, mental health and artistic practice.
The discussion introduces Asa Aryoshi-Pope’s exhibition Knotweed at Kavel Rafferty Space, using the exhibition and the artists’ own experiences and practices as a starting point for a wider conversation about Medic*tion: what it means to take it, choose it, change it or live without it, and how these experiences can intersect with creativity and making work.
Chaired by artist and creative producer Stef Felton, the panel will explore the personal, practical and cultural questions surrounding Medic*tion and mental health, while considering how artists navigate these experiences within their practices.
This is an open conversation rather than a clinical discussion, creating space for different perspectives and experiences of Medic*tion, treatment, mental health and creativity.
The event is part of Where Is My Mind?, a programme exploring mental health, neurodivergence, identity and the complex relationship between our inner lives and the world around us.
Free event. Booking recommended.
About the exhibition
The talk takes place as part of Where Is My Mind?, a group exhibition exploring mental health, neurodivergence, identity and the often complicated relationship between our inner lives and the world around us.
Bringing together artists whose work approaches these subjects from different perspectives, the exhibition asks how we understand ourselves when the systems, expectations and environments around us don’t always fit the way our minds work.
Where Is My Mind? is interested in the messy, personal and sometimes contradictory realities of mental health. Rather than presenting a single idea of what wellbeing, difference or neurodivergence looks like, the exhibition creates space for multiple experiences, perspectives and ways of thinking.
The conversation around parenthood, mental health and maintaining an art practice sits within this wider context. For many artists, the ability to make work is shaped by care, money, time, family, access and mental wellbeing. This panel opens up that conversation through the lived experiences of artists who are navigating these pressures alongside their practices.
The exhibition runs at Quench Gallery, with the opening day on Saturday 29 August. Following the talk, the gallery will host the exhibition’s private view from 6pm.
Event venue & nearby stays
Post Office Gallery Projects Kavel Rafferty, 22-23 Cecil Square, Margate, United Kingdom
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