New City Lit exhibition
- Making Good: Drawing and the Processing of Trauma is a new exhibition in the City Lit Gallery from Tony Hull
- The exhibition launches as part of this year’s Mental Wealth Festival and runs from 10th October – 5th November
- Includes specially commissioned immersive film Anamnesis by Monika Kita
Multi-media exhibition
This multi-media exhibition explores how the act of drawing might help to manage the way that traumatic events are processed. It is the culmination of a year-long research project into the visual, cognitive, motor and psychological aspects potentially involved and was funded by an Arts Council England Project Award. This research was initiated in response to Hull’s own experience of drawing through trauma, revisiting texts written contemporaneously as well as forms of drawing impulsively improvised at that time.
Anamnesis
The exhibition includes an immersive film Anamnesis by Monika Kita (Venice Biennale, BBC Shorts, East London Film Festival, Museum of Contemporary Art in Oaxaca, Mexico) commissioned as a response to the unfolding research.
Additionally the exhibition sets out the formative stages of a drawing programme in development, one ultimately intended to make the practical benefits of this research available to a wider audience.
Perceptual Thinking: A Dialogue between artists Tony Hull and Monika Kita
Join artists Tony Hull and Monika Kita in conversation as they discuss Making Good: Drawing and the Processing of Trauma, a City Lit Gallery exhibition exploring how the act of drawing might help to manage the way that traumatic events are processed.
Thursday 13 October 2022, 18:00-18:45 at City Lit
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Mental Wealth Festival
Launching on World Mental Health Day, City Lit’s eighth Mental Wealth Festival is taking place from 10th-14th October and will focus on the importance of time and how we spend it. Join us for free or low-fee events, including in person and online workshops, talks, discussions, exhibitions, and other activities.
