New Book: Psychiatric Tales, by Darryl Cunningham
July 18, 2010 | Filed Under News | Leave a Comment
Psychiatric Tales is a new book by Darryl Cunningham, who has both worked in the mental health care system and been a user of mental health services. He is a cartoonist, painter and sculptor, and this book is in the form of a graphic novel. It comprises eleven stories about mental illness, and helps to demystify and destigmatise mental illness. It is published by Blank Slate Books at £11.99 in the UK. (American edition forthcoming).
BBC features on art and design in hospitals
July 18, 2010 | Filed Under News | Leave a Comment
BBC News has recently featured 2 items about art and the design environment in hospitals. One was about the new Circle Bath Hospital, designed by Sir Norman Foster and featuring an interior very different from a typical hospital. See story here. The other was about the impressive new mural by Michael Craig-Martin at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford. See story here.