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Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 74.8 W x 78.7 H x 1 D in
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Showed at the The Other Art Fair
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ABOUT THE ARTWORK
Self portrait nude on hospital chair Fire extinguisher w/ acrylic, spray and oil. The ‘recovery approach’ has gained ground as an alternative paradigm to the biomedical model of mental health over recent years (REF). In the UK, for instance, ‘recovery’ is now accepted as a core tenet in mental health services, purportedly central to both inpatient and community service delivery (REF - NHS policy). Originating in service user activism and theory (Antony, 1993; Deegan, 1996), the recovery approach is strengths orientated, aiming to not eradicate ‘symptoms’ or distress, but instead to foster hope and sustain a meaningful life (Davidson). Recovery is therefore posited to be both deeply individual, unique to the context of meaning of each person’s life, and also collective, a holistic enterprise which extends beyond the traditional psychiatric and psychological focus on the individual mind and body. As Pat Deegan (1996) highlights, ‘recovery’ is thus both simple and revolutionary: “The concept of recovery is rooted in the simple yet profound realization that people who have been diagnosed with mental illness are human beings. Like a pebble tossed into the center of a still pool, this simple fact radiates in ever larger ripples until every corner of academic and applied mental health science and clinical practice are affected”
Original Created:
2022
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DETAILS AND DIMENSIONS
Painting:
Acrylic on Canvas
Original:
One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:
74.8 W x 78.7 H x 1 D in
Frame:
Not Framed
Ready to Hang:
Yes
Packaging:
Ships Rolled in a Tube
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Ben Wakeling
United Kingdom
B. London 1985 Occupation: Artist Guest lecturer for ‘Arts in Health’ at psychology dept at UWE. Founder of Outsider Gallery and Hackney Wick Life Drawing. Also, I am currently delivering my Expressive Arts and Wellbeing programme for the NHS MHT North London Forensic Service, since 2016. As well as being a full time artist working from my studio in Hackney Wick, London, I am currently employed as an artist for the NHS - delivering my own expressive arts programme for NHS North London Forensic Service which has been an incredible challenging but exciting journey as I also engage with NHS mental health services due to having a Bipolar diagnosis. This work also lead me to become the founding director of Outsider Gallery, London's first & Innovative art gallery exhibiting original works from NHS trusts in Forensic, CAMHS, HMP institutions, secure units, care settings & the excluded. I would say my childhood and early adult life experiences definitely informs my work. I never knew how to describe my work, I didn’t contemplate it until a doctor described my scribbles as self portraits and that they were/ or still are outcomes” - and I have a record that lists me as a vandal that causes criminal damage. Because of these two long standing issues and constant reoccurrences, I’ve always displayed an authentic rebelliousness energy to my relationship with art. I have been working with the NHS North London Forensic Service as an artist for many years but also separately engaging in their services as a mental health patient for even longer. It has been exciting but also incredibly complicated to navigate which again, I felt the only way of processing this was through paint. I believe this is where the idea of the Blue NHS Love Heart came from which since 2017 I’ve been painting outside and recently gained a lot of attention due to the pandemic. I think that my activist intentions really helps understand and link better in with my local communities, I really passionate about bringing community individuals together for positive active change.
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Handpicked to show at The Other Art Fair presented by Saatchi Art in London, London, London, London
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