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Announcing the OOSOOM 2023 Press Release!
PRESS RELEASE:
REVOLUTION!
200 voices at Scotland’s biggest mental health art exhibition
Out of Sight Out of Mind at Summerhall
Launch: Tuesday 10th October 2023, 6-8pm (booking opens soon)
Exhibition: 11-29th October 2023 at Summerhall, Edinburgh
Out of Sight Out of Mind is in its 11th year and is Scotland’s biggest mental health art exhibition. It takes place this October at Summerhall in Edinburgh and rejoins the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival programme which is also on at the same time.
The exhibition will be spread over three floors in Summerhall and will show artworks made by more than 200 people, including films, paintings, sculptures, photography, installations and more.
A group of people are seen looking at artwork in the OOSOOM 2022 exhibition
Many exhibitors will respond to the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival theme of ‘Revolution’. Some are expressing their own personal revolutions, or their vision of what a revolution could be. The exhibition will have a ‘Revolution Room’ where visitors can explore their own ideas on the theme.
Exhibition organisers said:
“We have been after a theme like this for a while. We have wanted something with punch, and we finally have it.”
“Revolution can embody movement. It is not static, but a process of change and transformation. It can also be quiet and mindful, characterised by small gestures of the everyday which can have a large impact.”
Out of Sight Out of Mind was started by a number of activists in 2013 and continues as a platform for many people with experience of mental health issues to express whatever they want to using art; their voices louder together. That in itself can be considered revolutionary. Visitors sometimes experience seeing themselves and society reflected in the artworks, which can also be revolutionary for them.
The exhibition launches on the evening of 10th October, and will be open from 11th to 29th October, on Wednesdays to Sundays from 12-6pm.
More quotes from organisers and exhibitors:
“This is a beautiful collaboration of unique voices lifting each other up and placing fragments of humanity together, shaping a whole”.
“Mental health is a journey; the exhibition is a space for people on any part of that journey”.
Two people are seen looking at artwork in the OOSOOM 2022 exhibition, one is stood up the other is bending down looking closely at the artwork with the text ‘ You belong here’.
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