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Lauren Shear Exhibition
The Pathway

by Lauren Shear

19th October 2006 - 18th October 2007

Main Corridor, Maudsley Hospital


This exhibition was a large installation of
200 drawings at the Maudsley Hospital related to art as a healing process.The work is sited down the main corridor of the hospital. A corridor, a
passage, a pathway is by its very nature a space of transition and transformation. Every month further drawings will join the others already in
the space, continuing their passage towards the front entrance in a rainbow of colours. There was 24 hour drawing event in a yurt in October 2007 to celebrate their departure from the building. Since then the journey has continued with new exciting exhibition and the Healing Arts Team's collaborative and innovative programme. See www.uponatime.co.uk for more details




I used to love drawing, but fear of being bad at it stopped me sharpening any more pencils. Eventually I figured that if I drew with my eyes closed I would definitely draw very badly indeed.
That way I would get the badness out of the way first and then get down to enjoying the process uninterrupted.

I did my first closed eye drawing on the 2nd of February 2004.It was so much fun, I started doing them every morning. This exhibition is a selection of some of these drawings. Recently, I've been colouring them in digitally in Photoshop using the magic wand tool, mainly because I'd always wanted tosee what I could do with one.


'The first step, I say aw'd me and pleas'd me so much, I have hardly gone, and hardly wish'd to go, any farther,'
from Beginning My Studies by Walt Whitman (first published 1865)

Lauren Shear




This exhibition is included in an Arts Map put together by Creative Minds to signpost many diverse arts events and exhibitions taking place all over London to mark World Mental Health Day 10th October 2006. Click on the link below for more information about Creative Minds and to find a copy of the Arts Map.

link to creativemindslondon

{rone of the pictures from the exhibition/r}

one of the pictures from the exhibition