Aesthetics programme and exhibition

Programme developed across 2020-21

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Aesthetics was an programme and exhibition exploring the experiences and creative practices of 5 artists with lived experience of personality disorders. A part of Convenience Gallery's  21/22 programme In Cahoots. 

Aesthetics was a focused project commissioned By CWP in Partnership with the Open Door Charity and Convenience to develop a creative resource which explores the personal narrative, diagnosis and conceptual thoughts of artists with a diagnosis of a PersonalityDisorder.

We worked across 12 months to develop a commissioning process to bring artists from across the globe to develop creative responses and personal journals that document a personal, introspective and deeply insightful exploration of lived experience and diagnosis.

The project aimed to give both insight and understanding, as personality disorders are often misrepresented and misunderstood in the media-centric, social and public realm. Aesthetics played a communal part creating wider conversations in reshaping understanding and placing the narrative in the hands of people with true experience of a personality disorder. Both to create new understanding and shared experience for others with lived experience and those going through diagnostic processes.

Programme and exhibited artist were:

Fauziya Johnson, Tev, Joseph C, Ally Zlatar, Lilly Hammond, Hannah Bryan