Edvard Munch is a Norwegian painter and printmaker known for his painting titled The Scream (1893) and other paintings that evoke similar psychological themes of anguish and melancholy. He is also considered one of the pioneers of the Expressionism movement, an art style characterized by its depiction of the subjective experience humans go through with […]
Art has always been a vehicle used by those to express themselves. Various mediums can be used to achieve this, such as painting, woodwork, graphite sketching, and even photography. Silent Shout by Eva Charkiewicz is a perfect example of this. Eva Charkiewicz is a Polish-born, UK-based photographer specialising in “art photography”. Her work is often […]
Healing the Whole Family is a graphic story written by Grace Chiang in collaboration with mental wellness consultant Eunice Yuen and artist Nealie Ngo. The story follows a teenage girl’s struggles with her mental health and her family. The graphic story was designed as a resource for individuals experiencing similar struggles and may be particularly […]
Egon Schiele was an Austrian Expressionist painter born on June 12, 1890, in the small town of Tulln. His interest in art began early, and by the age of sixteen, he had been admitted to the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. In 1907, Schiele was discovered by Gustav Klimt, a well-established painter who quickly recognized […]
Siobahn Kaufman, a graduate of the Breda University of Applied Sciences and a resident of the Netherlands, is an emerging painter known for her Dark Surreal Self Portraits and her focus on body horror. Many of her self-portraits characterize the female body as monstrous, covered in blood and teeth, limbs torn to shreds. Aside from […]
Frida Kahlo, a painter known for her painful and passionate self-portraits, is celebrated for her representation of Mexican and indigenous culture as well as depictions of the female experience in her paintings. Throughout her life, she had been disabled from childhood polio and a near-fatal bus accident that led her to focus on painting during […]
What shapes our mental health? It is easy to imagine psychological distress as something that exists entirely within an individual, a chemical imbalance, a diagnosis, or a problem located inside the brain. The illustration by Nate Kitch accompanying Richard Bentall’s 2016 The Guardian article, “Mental illness is a result of misery, yet still we stigmatise […]
A notable aspect of art that many artists relate to is its ability to serve as an alternative method of communication. It is a form of expression that does not require words, but offers connection through impressions and insight into personal experiences. For artist Bryan Charnley, art became a way for him to share his […]
In Imposter Syndrome by Cassie B, I felt like she had drawn the thoughts that are constantly buzzing in my head as a student. The figure in the artwork is dressed in a clown outfit, bright, exaggerated, impossible to ignore. On the surface, it looks confident and playful, but I cannot help seeing it as […]
The Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh is a world-renowned post-impressionist painting and arguably one of the most recognizable works in Western society. This painting was made in 1889 during Van Gogh’s stay at the asylum of Saint-Paul-de-Mausole. Although the only official diagnosis Van Gogh received was epilepsy, historians have suggested a myriad of mental […]