DOROTA CHIOMA
Notes From Postnatal Depression: Healing Through Art
£17.99
An insight into a common mental health illness experienced by new mums and mums-to-be. Although it is so common it is stigmatised. This book aims to normalise this condition. It evidences Dorota’s own journey towards healing. It contains a scientific insight into depression, a personal perspective building a background to her story, as well as the images and poetry form a collection of her creative outputs during the early stages of art therapy.
This Zine has Issues – Sleep and Mental Health
£17.99
This Zine Has Issues (TZHI) is a mini-magazine devoted to breaking the stigma of ill mental health while helping others know they are not alone. Co-edited by Dorota Chioma and Dave Combs, fellow artists with lived experience of ill mental health, who explore different topics on the wide spectrum of mental health. This issue features work from various artists and writers pertaining to sleep and mental health. Such a basic need with a long list of consequences should it not be met. On top of breath-taking art and words of wisdom from contributors, the co-editors also shed a bit of light on folklore, science, sought answers to some questions from professionals and looked into ways to build on the topic by recommending useful resources.
Mental Health in Pictures
£17.99
A tour through Dorota’s first solo exhibition. It presents over 30 pieces of artwork accompanied by narratives and poetry, which explore the varying states concerning the mind and mental health. Thought provoking and insightful journey into a life with mental illness.
Tinctured Mental Health in Pictures – Colouring Book
£17.99
Exploring aspects to maintaining good mental health, through illustrations, words and colouring
LESLEY CODY
Hundreds of Things to do with Your Grandchildren
£17.99
Many interesting suggestions with illustrations
ANN CRONIN
Creative Insomnia – in a time of Covid 19
£1.50
Writing and illustrations during Covid 19
Creative Insomnia 2 – Post Covid 19 – Recovery
£2
Writing and illustrations post Covid, reflecting on life’s changes
JOHN EXELL
Chanting Diamonds
£4
John Exell was mentored by poet Peter Campbell as part of the 1st Generation of the Survivors’ Poetry National Mentorin Scheme 2005-2006, funded and sponsored by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.
Survivor’s Press is the imprint of Survivors’ Poetry, a unique literary and mental health charity promoting the writing of survivors of mental health distress. The first year of its National Mentoring Scheme, 2005-06, sees an exciting and ambitious programme that has brought together nine survivor poets with nine volunteer poet mentors. This selection is on of the results of those nine collaborations.
BRITTA VON ZWEIGBERGK
Trustee and lifelong Anglophile Britta Von Zweigbergk is a prolific writer and artist with a deep focus on social history. Drawing from her extensive career at Bexley Hospital (1973–1996), she curated a unique archive of artworks and writings, including pieces by Cynthia Pell, created within the hospital’s art therapy department. Now in her eighties, she continues to document these histories through small-press books and exhibitions that explore the intersection of creativity and the asylum experience.
The Village on the Heath: A History of Bexley Hospital
£17
by Britta von Zweigbergk and Michael Armstrong
The book was the result of several years hard work and research by Britta von Zweigbergk and Michael Armstrong and was published by Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust in August 2004.
Asylum Lives
£24
A history of mental illness with special emphasis on the late twentieth century. It is a very useful source book for nursing students, art therapists, occupational therapists and all those interested in mental health issues. It particularly explores the anti psychiatry movement in the middle/late century and schizophrenia and creativity.
Centrepieces: A story of Mental Health and Art in Bexley
£14.99
People and Their Pictures
£19
Artwork from the Bexley Hospital Archive and Picture Collection.
The book explores a small number of interesting, striking and enigmatic pieces of art, by description attempting to relate colours and shapes to moods and feelings, how they emerged in the first place, often not deliberately but past the internal censor and what ultimately the artists made of them.
Pictures from the Edge
£16
A visual introduction to Art Therapy in Bexley Hospital, 1973-1996
Words From the Edge
£8.99
A collection of writings from the Art Therapy department of Bexley Hospital, 1973 – 1996
Talking About Art
£21
A collection of essays exploring the origins, meanings and function of art in human society