An inspired new display!

Many of our blog readers will have visited the exhibition currently running in Brent Museum’s Community Gallery, ‘Willesden Hospital: Supporting Health and Wellbeing, Past and Present’. It looks at the founding in 1893 of Willesden’s local hospital, and explores how the original building on Harlesden Lane is being used today by the Art Therapies team to support health and well-being in the local community.

The exhibition was launched to celebrate the centenary of John Passmore Edwards (1823-1911), the Victorian philanthropist who funded the construction of the building, and it has been the inspiration for a recent project resulting in a new display in the community gallery.

The project has seen a group working with the CNWL Arts in Health team and Janine Marsh, a freelance facilitator on a series of workshops, where they have taken creative inspiration from objects in Brent Museum’s collection to create original artworks. We are delighted that the group wanted to display their works as part of the exhibition, and this week we are able to bring you the new display.

Today, Abby Hubbard and Hannah Haynes from the CNWL Arts in Health team have been hard at work in the Community Gallery installing the new displays, showing the pieces produced by the group alongside some of the museum objects that inspired them. Visit the Community Gallery on the ground floor at Willesden Green Library Centre to find out more and to see the fantastic new display.

Posted by Kate