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Wen Wu: Literary Paintings at CCCA, Coventry

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Wen Wu Poster

Wen Wu opens Scratch the Surface Festival 2017 , on Sunday October 1st. Scratch the Surface is a mental health arts festival that has been co-curated by Mental Spaghetti, amongst others, with festival organisers, Collective//Pod.

Be part of an ‘audience with…’ Wen Wu, on Sunday 1st October at 1:30pm, Fargo Village, Far Gosford St (Map).

Wen Wu’s exhibition in the CCCA Shed is also part of Coventry Biennial 2017, .

Wen Wu at the CCCA has been co-curated by Mental Spaghetti and Collective//Pod. Special thanks Riflemaker Soho  for loaning Wen Wu’s paintings to us!

Scratch the Surface Programme

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Josephine King.

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Lovely mental health service user and blogger Ruby Tuesday (My Thirteenth Sad Day) suggested artist Josephine King for this blog. King’s powerful pieces depict what it is/was like living with Bipolar Disorder and the effect it had on her life. Her first self portrait came “out of nowhere” at a time when she was seriously ill and suffering psychosis, “desperate, and not at all well in my head”.

The wonderful, rustic and rickety Riflemaker Gallery in Soho, London, a place I have been lucky enough to visit in the past, showed 80 of King’s self-portraits last year. Regrettably I knew nothing of this exhibition (gutted!) until Ruby told me about it yesterday. Here are some images from the show.

(pictures taken from Guardian website. Please check out Ruby’s blog.