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For Some Good Measure or More
& I See it My Way

Collaborative Arts and Health exhibition in Exeter, open workshop tie in with the BIG DRAWand co-sponsored by the British Association for Art Therapists.
Arts and Health groups have been working together in Exeter towards a major exhibition at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Queen Street, Exeter, opening on 1st October. The exhibition, though it has been collaboratively formed, has largely been the result of initiatives by Exeter Health Care Arts, (http://www.ehca.org.uk/), our hospital arts organisation, and their spirit of openness and collaboration has resulted in contributions from a wide range of other participants: Exeter prison, Upstream, (http://www.upstream-uk.com), working with older people), Magic Carpet, Community Arts project (http://www.magiccarpet-arts.org.uk), and the Double Elephant Print Workshop (http://www.doubleelephant.org.uk) Two of the groups are arts therapies based: the Creative Therapies Service, the NHS provision, and Insider Art, art therapy activists. (http://www.insiderart.org.uk).

The exhibition is titled ‘For some Good Measure or More’. Nicholas Hilliard, the astonishing Elizabethan miniaturist was an Exonian, and wrote:

‘If men of good worth did know what delight (art) breadth, how it removeth melancholy, avoideth evil occasions, putteth passions of grief or sorrow away, cureth rage and shorteneth the times, they would never leave until they had attained in some good measure or more their comfort'.

Taking their inspiration from this, it was agreed to ‘miniaturise’ our work, each group being allocated six small frames, with a commentary, to spread the word about their work. One frame is allowed to be a computer screen, which helps! Additionally, the museum foyer will be adorned with huge banners, one from each group, each working with a colour and presented as rainbow: a palette of possibilities.

Insider Art host simple, enjoyable ways of experiencing drawing as just part of being ourselves in the activities room at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum. (RAMM)
This event was co-sponsored by the British Association Art Therapists, (BAAT) and formed part of BAAT’s contribution to The Big Draw.

Nicholas Hilliard.
Self portrait

Insider Art banner in progress

I See it My Way: THE BIG DRAW

To help launch the exhibition, Insider Art ran an all day family workshop in the museum’s activity room on 1st October, titled ‘I see it My Way’,

We see, say and draw, things differently. But understand one another! This drop in day celebrated how even the simplest drawings are as diverse as our signatures.

Insider Art’s art therapists and helpers at the Big Draw, from the left: Helen Tynan, Claire Evans (volunteer) Helen Lisk (RAMM staff) Malcolm Learmonth, Diana Collins, Trinity Gidney (Art Therapy student) and Karen Huckvale.

Some of the 100+ suns

Some of the 500+ drawings made as part of the Big Draw . A galaxy of suns and moons, a forest of trees, a twinkling of eyes and lots more besides.

Thanks to everyone who took part!