Edward Adamson Exhibition

Edward Adamson was the pioneer of art therapy and the first art therapist to be employed by the NHS. This exhibition explores his life and work and includes a range of artworks created by people who were placed in Netherne, a British asylum, between 1946 and 1981.The work is displayed at the Maudsley Hospital in a previously abandoned corridor, which has been reclaimed and turned into a public art gallery. More work is on display at the art gallery and museum at Bethlem Royal Hospital in Beckenham, the world’s oldest psychiatric hospital.