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Balmy Army

Young people sorting out the madness

A group of young people march behind a banner saying Balmy Army, many holding home made placards, they are shouting and laughing.

2.8 Million Minds

The art of London's young minds

Tyries Holder reading a poem. She is wear fabric containing bright colours of text and drawings.

For They Let In The Light

A young persons mental health film

For They Let In The Light

EXPOSURE

Films portraits of Newham's Health Workers

Group of distressed health workers looking towards camera

With For About 2020

A slow conference for a fast evolving crisis.

With For About 2020

Mad Artist Mutual Aid

Support during the Covid 19 crisis

Yellow square with Mad Artists Mutual Aid written in pink

How Can We Do This Better?

Changing the narrative of the suicide capital

A handwritten wish list for how mental healthcare could be better in St Helens

A Madlove Take Over

A festival and space for mental health

Madlove poster held by Hana Madness

OH MY GOSH, YOU’RE WELLCOME… KITTEN

A play space for healthy minds

Oh My Gosh, You're Wellcome...Kitten on show at the Wellcome Collection, Being Human exhibition

In Chains

A short documentary about a radical mental health community

A man in a brown shirt standing behind a man in a blue shirt with his arms around him

Madlove: A Designer Asylum

It ain’t no bad thing to need a safe place to go mad.

Mental

An autobiographical performance

feet sticking out from underneath a striped duvet

Ship of Fools

Making my own mental health hospital

legs dangling from under a tree

The art of a culture of hope

Collectively authoring hope and fear

two boys hold a placard saying Make Hope Stop Fear

Take Care

A symposium on disability justice and radical care

woman sitting in wheelchair on stage with pink lighting

One Hundred Thousand Pieces of Possibilities

€1000 free from a bank

a man lies with his eyes shut laughing on top of a huge pile of 1 cent pieces

Cleaning Up After Capitalism

The power of lame ass art activism / live art

a man wearing a hi vis vest with "cleaning up after capitalism" printed on the back, is vacuuming in Wall Street

Starbucks Logo Fault

Rebranding Starbucks with a green pen

Last Night Art Saved My Life

Short provocations on strategies for survival

scribe illustration of colourful text and drawings of artists in blue with the title 'last night art saved my life'

The Church of the Immaculate Consumption

Praying to Products

a white man with long hair at the top of an escalator with his arms raised

Comfort the Disturbed, Disturb the Comfortable.

A rant

a man stands talking to an audience in front of a white screen

Brick Land Ward

Broadland Clinic

Guild Lodge Hospital

Bethlem Gallery and Hospital

Madlove Workshop Newcastle

Madlove Workshop Liverpool

Madlove Workshop Zurich

Madlove Workshop Riga Mental Health Hospital

Madlove Workshop Nottingham Contemporary

Madlove Workshop Southbank Centre

Madlove Workshop Fierce Festival Birmingham

What are the attributes of the people around you?

pink text on white background

What activities and facilities support good mental health?

pink text on white background

How does good care make you feel?

pink text on a white background

What does good mental health feel like to touch?

pink text on white background

What does good mental health taste like?

pink text on a white background

What does good mental health sound like?

pink text on white background

What does good mental health look like?

pink text on a white background

What does good mental health smell like?

pink text on white background

Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination

Creative disobedience

a man in a suit being hit in the face with a snowball

Group Therapy. Mental distress in a digital age

A safe space to go mad

Bedlam: The Asylum and Beyond

City and Hackney Centre for Mental Health

Installation

a black street bin with "loony" written on it

Get Ta Suck

Solo exhibition

two gold paintings with black text, one reads "Gordon Brown texture like sun" the other "never a frown with Gordon Brown"

Begging For Social Engagement

Live art performance and film

The words "begging for social engagement £100 required" hand written on a piece of cardboard and held by someone in a blue jacket sitting cross legged

Able

Resigning project

yellow disabled parking sign with the letters D I S D blacked out so that ABLE reads in yellow

The Assessment

A mental health self diagnosis event

looking out from a lectern in a lecture hall a man sits on the right with his head in his hands

London 20L2

Olympic twitter prank

Metropolitan Lice

Brandalism / rebranding project

outside Haggerston and Queensbridge police station the sign is adapted to read 'Metropolitan Lice'

Kick The Crack

Commissioned intervention

pieces of white tape stuck across a large crack in a concrete floor

The Cardboard Ark

Installation

a boat made of cardboard outside on a paved area in front of some shops

Put The Fun Between Your Legs

Civil disobedience installation

a large black banner hanging on a tall brick building displaying a list civil disobedience forms

You’re Not Barred

Installation

60 glass bottles on a white table

Capitalism. Full Stop.

Performance lecture / manifesto

silhouette of a man in front of an overhead projector, the slide behind him reads 'art is dead long live life'

Free Syria Air Force

Channel 4 Random Acts

8 short films

Please Do Not Feed The Pigs

Brandalism / resigning project

a sign on metal railings opposite a police station that reads "please don't feed the pigs".

Just Do It – A tale of modern-day outlaws

Feature documentary

2 posters side by side with the title 'just do it' in pink

If Climate Camp Made Avatar

Video piss take

What Difference Does It Make?

Solo exhibition, performance and interventions

a hand drawn image of a man waving with the top of a penis on his head

So Much Culture

Solo show

whitewashed shop window with the words 'so much culture so little change' exposed

Fences

Promotional video for Climate Camp 2018

image of a man in a blue t-shirt and back pack climbing over a metal fence

Hate Mail

(Yes, it is real)

a typed piece of hate mail to James Leadbitter the vacuum cleaner

Free Music For Suckers

Guerrilla marketing campaign

stacks of CD's on a shelf

The Queen’s Speech Remixed

Subverted speech

Queen Elizabeth II smiling in royal dress

Getting Your Brazilian

A culture and heritage tour of Brazil – in Selfridges

a white man with long hair being escorted out of a shop by police

Re-Stock – Fiction | Non-Fiction

A subtle performance action

The fiction section in a book shop with a book called "The Case for Israel" facing front

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