The Institute of Mental Health is Burning

@ Newport Museum & Art Gallery

Come see the new exhibition!

A curatorial intervention by artist Neil McNally into the art collections at Newport Museum and Art Gallery. Neil has invited a group of established and emerging artists to make work reflecting upon his investigations into and response to the collections.

�There is a Richard Dadd painting (Splendour and Wealth) in the Museum's collection: it was bought in 1958 from Walker Galleries in London for £58. This investigation into the Museum's art collection is the impetus to explore the long-term trauma caused by personal, historical and socio-political events. Contrasting the failure of the last large armed uprising against authority in Britain (The Chartists) with Dadd's story, the exhibition touches upon rupture, violence, madness, class and place.�

12 international artists have been asked to make newly conceived work for the exhibition, to be shown alongside a selection of work drawn from the Museum's permanent collection. Artists featured: Axelrad & Press, Marcel Broodthaers, Merlin Carpenter, Richard Dadd, Inez De Coo, Jacob Epstein, Morag Keil, LS Lowry, David Jones, Hannes Michanek, Amy McDonough, Catalina Niculescu, Luke Pomphrey, Auguste Rodin, Phil Root, George Stubbs, Rowland Thomas, JMW Turner, Keith Vaughan, Iori Wallace, Eva Weinmayr, Christopher Wood.