Mixed Media Workshop (The Bethlem Gallery/South London And Maudsley) [2022]

In collaboration with The Bethlem Gallery, The Blühen Studio curated three mixed media art workshops. The workshops were specifically open to people in the community with a lived/living experience of accessing mental health services, and those supporting others who have a lived/living experience.

The aim of the workshop was for the attendees to express their feelings and ideas regarding places of support for mental health in their own artwork: utilising techniques and practices taught by Amber. (Off-loom weaving, collaging & yarn wrapping).

The discussions, ideas and artworks were then used as sources of inspiration for Amber to shape the development of artworks commissioned for the New Douglas Bennet House (a new, purpose-built mental health facility that will house acute adult inpatient services including four specialist wards and a psychiatric intensive care unit in South-East London.)