Thank you 🙏🏻

An article I've written for @artsprofessional.co.uk about the relationship between culture and mental health.

The Weight of Being is open at Two Temple Place until 19th April.

The Weight of Being - Two Temple Place Two Temple Place, one of London’s hidden architectural gems, hosts exhibitions and events and is owned by the charity The Bulldog Trust.

Just listened to today's show on catch-up. Wish it had been live as I'd have called in for the last hour. Can I mention this? Covers lots of the factors you and callers mentioned, through art:

The Weight of Being - Two Temple Place share.google/xBwyaP9xzwh3...

The Weight of Being - Two Temple Place Two Temple Place, one of London’s hidden architectural gems, hosts exhibitions and events and is owned by the charity The Bulldog Trust.

The exhibition I have worked my socks off on is now open 🙌🏻

If you've any interest in the universality of mental health and how artists depict this in their work, give it a go!

Free entry and on until 19th April

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Same!

Absolute belter of an episode on the hard right showing signs of fragmenting. The more Farage tries to present as "mainstream" the more he looks like an establishment traitor to his core bigots and the more Reform looks like a care home for bitter Tories to everyone else.

AND I AM SO HERE FOR IT. 💅🏽

The Weight of Being - Two Temple Place Two Temple Place, one of London’s hidden architectural gems, hosts exhibitions and events and is owned by the charity The Bulldog Trust.

This might be of interest!

twotempleplace.org/exhibitions/...

The Weight of Being - Two Temple Place Two Temple Place, one of London’s hidden architectural gems, hosts exhibitions and events and is owned by the charity The Bulldog Trust.

Installing an exhibition this week that is the culmination of two years work. And quite prescient, as it turns out from my current mood

twotempleplace.org/exhibitions/...

Same here. I like to think that 10% are idiots and the other 90% are bots.

Are you suffering with a slight dose of the fear about heading back into the office tomorrow?

Take a deep breath, relax, and immerse yourself in the sights and sounds of the Irish landscape for a moment.

#Ireland #SpéirGhorm

The Power of the Original: Why Seeing Art in Person Changes Us In the run-up to The Weight of Being, I’ve been reading new research about what happens to us physically when we stand in front of an original artwork.

Some thoughts on the recent research that seeing art in person improves our wellbeing (who knew?!)

open.substack.com/pub/angelath...

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The Power of the Original: Why Seeing Art in Person Changes Us In the run-up to The Weight of Being, I’ve been reading new research about what happens to us physically when we stand in front of an original artwork.

Some thoughts on the recent research that seeing art in person improves our wellbeing (who knew?!)

open.substack.com/pub/angelath...

I really love this Vincent Van Gogh quote:

"To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace."

No romanticizing the starving artist. Van Gogh said UBI all the way.

Whats on your mind mate booklet – Hartlepool Borough Council Hartlepool Borough Council aims to provide high quality services that meet the needs of local people.

Oh and they made, and distributed, this! www.hartlepool.gov.uk/downloads/do...

Popped copies in barbers, at car shows, pubs, docs surgeries etc - anywhere a man might pick it up and identify with what they're saying

But now they're 100% comfortable, have been creating their own art and are halfway through a six-week creative writing course.
Kind of the opposite of what you're saying - meeting them where they are - but it has been amazing. 2/2

Absolutely. For around 18 months I’ve been working with a group of lads from Andy’s Man Club, using the work of John Wilson McCracken (an artist in our collection who struggled with mental health).

Most had never set foot in an art gallery before... 1/2

My illustrations of blue and mauve garden flowers on a Kraft paper sketchbook with pen

Silver casts of nature finds and the items they were cast from on a wooden background with hand written labels

A collection of tiny beautiful items in a miniature wooden printers tray

My pen and ink illustrations of 5 species of UK garden birds

Tmrw eve. at 8 I'll be launching my new early '26 creative & mental health workshops: botanical & bird illustrations,small museums & casting nature finds in silver.
I trained as a molecular cell biologist,have taught creative w'shops on BBC Countryfile,Victoria & Albert & Bronte Parsonage Museums...

"research shows she would be wise to"
That pretty much rules it out then 🙄

because nobody else seems to be saying what he is saying with such gusto. I'm probably more aligned to Ed Davey but Zack is pretty inescapable at the moment. Definitely the anti-Farridge 2/2

The way you put it here Alex, is pretty much how Lewis Goodall put it to Zack in an interview I listened to yesterday. Left-wing populism is how he described it. If the definition of populism is saying whatever it will take to get you elected then that's bad. However, I feel drawn to Zack 1/2

Sunday walks 🍂🌰🍁

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Day 18 of #31DaysOfGraves - Mistake

"What's going on with that 'N'?"
"It looks cool"
"Does corpse have an 'e'?"
"Nah"
"Is her name spelled correctly?"
"Yeah"
"You've not left enough room for 'Edinburgh'"
"No probs!"
"How are you spelling 'her'?"
"Erm.."
"Should 'children' have a 'g'?"
"Absolutely!"

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Oops. ~AA

No, thank you! You've even made me bite the bullet and arrange a winter solstice sunrise trip to Castlerigg - I've wanted to do it for years.

That sounds like a great approach! The quality of the writing makes it easy to imagine you're there - at any of the points in the history of these sites.

Upon a White Horse by Peter Ross | Waterstones Buy Upon a White Horse by Peter Ross from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.

I'm only three-quarters of the way through this book, but my goodness!

A reminder of all the brilliant, mysterious, beautiful things about this country. Perfect antedote to the bad stuff ✨

Upon a White Horse by @peteralanross.bsky.social | Waterstones share.google/isUnzio5DDO1...

A print run of 50 of my '26 calendars will be on pre-order in my Etsy shop this evening from 8pm UK time.
I create each of my photos using recent neuroscientific research-looking at them alters brain biochemistry & is likely to trigger dopamine release in your brain &...cont'd in following post 🧵

A path through woods with leaves on the ground and a dog sitting down. Light coming through the trees casts shadows across the path.

Autumn is coming ♥️🍂🍁