The Places We Know brings together two of Bethlem Gallery’s core elements – its recently launched permanent art collection, and the artistic community that calls the gallery home.
This new exhibition will spotlight works from Bethlem Gallery’s new art collection. Launched last year, and generously funded by The Peter Sowerby Foundation, the Bethlem Gallery Art Collection is a collection of artworks by artists with lived experience of mental health services and is managed, interpreted, cared for and actively developed by Bethlem Gallery.
The exhibition has been co-curated with Bethlem artist, writer, and educator Halimah Zakiuddin. The usual gallery ‘voice’ in interpreting the exhibition will be critically interrupted through responses by Creative Future’s 2026 writer-in-residence Jess Murrain, who will act as the ‘exhibition poet’.
The exhibition’s themes, reflected in the title, centre around affinity – a sense of familiarity or kinship. Ideas around people and the places they inhabit informed the selection of works.
Full list of exhibiting artists: Antonia Attwood, Angelique Lin, Daniel Regan, George Harding, Imma, Jan Arden, Pat Mear, Peter White, Sarah Lloyd (Carpenter), Sue Morgan.
The Bethlem Gallery Art Collection is generously supported by the Peter Sowerby Foundation.
Bethlem Gallery, Bethlem Royal Hospital, Monks Orchard Road, London, BR3 3BX
Until 11 April 2026
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