Work in Focus ✨
Showing as part of #ThePlacesWeKnow: Selected Works from the Bethlem Gallery Art Collection:
Imma, Unknown
This enigmatic work in ink features a face divided into two halves.
See more works from the Collection in the exhibition showing at the Gallery Weds - Sat, 9.30am-5pm
As part of our current exhibition 'The Places We Know: Selected Works from the Bethlem Gallery Art Collection' there are 3 plinths in the middle of the gallery space where you can add your thoughts about works or answer some of our prompt questions.
Take part and leave your response on the shelf!
You can see related work by Bethany Williams in 'Journey to This Wild, Achingly Beautiful Place' currently showing at ORTUS Cafe, Conferencing and Events Venue Denmark Hill until 20 March.
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Have you read ‘The body as an extension of the self’ by Dr Sula Windgassen?
In response to Bethany Williams' exhibition at Bethlem Gallery 'This Wild, Achingly Beautiful Place' Dr Sula Windgassen wrote this essay , which is in the exhibition booklet and available to download via link in bio.
Join our Mixed Media Workshop with Halimah Zakiuddin
Saturday 7 March 2026, 2-4pm
Bethlem Gallery
Get your tickets here: bethlemgallery.com/whats-on/mix...
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Showing as part of #ThePlacesWeKnow: Selected Works from the Bethlem Gallery Art Collection:
Antonia Attwood, Enthesitis
This work is part of an ongoing series 'Maybe it was the chicken pox?', in which the artist imaginatively depicts various aspects of living with a hidden chronic illness.
Photos from a workshop we hosted with artist Alice Burnhope as part of her commission for the National Autism Unit at Bethlem Hospital.
Textile artist Alice Burnhope will create a series of indoor textile and colour pieces which aim to be tactile, grounding & familiar
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📢 Currently showing at ORTUS, Denmark Hill:
Bethany Williams: Journey to This Wild, Achingly Beautiful Place
Broad gestures, wistful landscapes, and pensive figures reveal a return to a creative process that is hands-on, tactile, individual, and exploratory.
📸: Untamed and Restless, 2025
The Places We Know: Selected Works from the Bethlem Gallery Art Collection is currently showing at Bethlem Gallery! Ideas around people and the places they inhabit informed the selection of works.@
The Bethlem Gallery Art Collection is generously supported by the #PeterSowerbyFoundation.
Work in Focus ✨
Showing as part of #ThePlacesWeKnow: Selected Works from the Bethlem Gallery Art Collection:
Sarah Lloyd (Carpenter), Torn
This work is part of a larger series, Emerging, which saw the artist exploring experiments with self-portraiture as a way to redefine self image.
There are still a few tickets left for this Saturday's History Walk!
Saturday 14 February, 11am-12pm
Join Bethlem Gallery and the Museum of the Mind for an invigorating walk around the stunning grounds of the Bethlem Royal Hospital.
Get your ticket via link in bio.
The @creativefutureuk.bsky.social Writers’ Award #WritingCompetition for underrepresented writers is officially open! ✍️
It’s free to enter and 15 winners will receive £25k of prizes 🌟 The theme this year is 'Material'.
Find out more, including how to enter: bit.ly/CFWA26
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Thanks to everyone who came along to the opening celebration for #ThePlacesWeKnow: Selected Works from the Bethlem Gallery Art Collection last week 🎉
In the photos see co-curators Karim Sultan and Halimah Zakiuddin discussing the work by Pat Mear - 'Puzzled, Safe Inside a Jigsaw Puzzle World' 🧩
Always interesting exibitions here, and it's a fantastic gallery. southlondon.co.uk/lifestyle/th...
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Have you visited our new online shop yet?
The work featured here, 'Weird Ice' by Peter G Ball is a limited edition print (of 5, numbered) sold on the site.
Visit bethlemgallery.myshopify.com/ to take a look. Orders can be picked up at the Gallery or posted to you.
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We are pleased to announce our next exhibition 'The Places We Know: Selected Works Selected Works from the Bethlem Gallery Art Collection' will open next week!
Showing 4 Feb – 11 April 2026, the exhibition opening event will take place on 5 February from 5-7pm:
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Thanks to everyone who came to our evening talk/Q&A with artist and designer Bethany Williams during the last week of her solo exhibition This Wild, Achingly Beautiful Place at Bethlem Gallery!
The show is now closed, see link in bio to watch our latest video including a talk by Bethany Williams.
Today and tomorrow are the last two days to see 'This Wild, Achingly Beautiful Place by Bethany Williams' at Bethlem Gallery! We are open 9.30am-5pm.
The gallery will be closed next week whilst we prepare the gallery for the next show.
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Photos from our recent Natural Dye Workshop with Bethany Williams.
The session was inspired by Bethany's current solo exhibition, in which she uses natural dyes from her home region of the Isle of Man.
Bethany's exhibition closes this Saturday 24 January, and we're open Weds-Sat until 5pm!
Join our Evening Talk/ Q&A with artist and designer Bethany Williams
Thursday 22 January 2026
6.30-8.30pm
Bethlem Gallery
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Have you heard about our new #FriendsofBethlemGallery Membership? 👬
Priced at £80, the one-year membership includes an exclusive Friend of Bethlem Gallery tote bag, designed by @chunkymark.bsky.social
Plus much more, find out more here: bethlemgallery.myshopify.com/products/bec...
In response to Bethany Williams' exhibition 'This Wild, Achingly Beautiful Place' Dr Sula Windgassen @thehealthpsych.bsky.social has written an essay 'The body as an extension of the self' which is available to read in our exhibition booklet on our website:
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👀 There's just one ticket remaining for Saturday's Natural Dye Workshop with Bethany Williams
Join a natural dye workshop inspired by Bethany’s current solo exhibition, in which she uses natural dyes from her home region of the Isle of Man.
More info:
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Thanks to everyone for visiting, contributing to and buying from this year's Bethlem Art Fair ✨
The fair is now closed, but will be back in November 2026!
Image: Bethlem Gallery Art Fair photo courtesy Peter G Ball
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Visit the Bethlem Art Fair today and tomorrow, before it closes on Saturday for another year!
This is one of the works submitted to the fair:
@chunkymark.bsky.social, Hug me I'm prickly, 2025, Mixed media, £30
Explore works like this upstairs in @bethlemmuseum.bsky.social until 10 January.
Join our Evening Talk/ Q&A with Bethany Williams
Thursday 22 January 2026
6.30-8.30pm
Join us to hear from artist/designer Bethany Williams on her solo exhibition This Wild, Achingly Beautiful Place at Bethlem Gallery.
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"I was trying to create this ghostly, beautiful, eerie feeling in the work, like when you lose yourself and you slowly return back to yourself,"
Bethany Williams and her solo exhibition at Bethlem Gallery featured in the BBC at the end of last month:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
We are open from tomorrow for the last week of the Bethlem Art Fair!
This work submitted is by Yasmine Martinez:
Sometimes I’m Up Sometimes I’m Down, Mixed media, £65
Explore works like this Weds-Sat, 9.30am-5pm upstairs in @bethlemmuseum.bsky.social.
More works submitted to our Art Fair 2025 ✨
Sarah Clement, Blue, £25
The Bethlem Art Fair, and Bethany Williams' show This Wild, Achingly Beautiful Place reopen on Friday 2 January 2026. We look forward to seeing you then.
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Happy New Year from Bethlem Gallery ✨
Image: Bethany Williams, Cashtal yn Ard, Where Self Acceptance Begins, 2025
This work is currently showing at ORTUS Denmark Hill as part of Journey to This Wild, Achingly Beautiful Place showing until 3 March 2026
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