Founded in 1999, Centrepieces is a registered charity which helps adults in their mental health recovery through art. The organisation's work centres on an effort to improve the confidence, well-being and self-esteem of people suffering with mental illness, while offering an opportunity to build a social community and promote a better understanding of mental health to the wider public.
Centrepieces provides the resources for people to participate in art workshops and activities, and to exhibit and sell their artwork. Running regular workshops, which encompass art practices from sculpture and painting to mask making and photography, we are committed to providing our artists with the tools and the environment for creative expression.
Centrepieces provides the resources for people to participate in art workshops and activities, and to exhibit and sell their artwork. Running regular workshops, which encompass art practices from sculpture and painting to mask making and photography, we are committed to providing our artists with the tools and the environment for creative expression.
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Centrepieces exists to promote mental health recovery through the arts, providing opportunities for people to participate in art activities and to exhibit and sell their work. It also tries to promote a better understanding of mental health to the wider public. To help adults within the local community who have mental health issues to improve their well-being and achieve better social inclusion through art.
A page of useful internet links: Bexley Magazine Extra; Mind in Bexley; The Exchange digital catalogue PLUS links to 2 YouTube videos connected to this weeks Art Challenges. Also has a link to download Zoom. There's a new Facebook page called Arty F'Arty Party Group with art challenges and activities to try.
Our workshops at The Lodge and the Pop Up have restarted and there are lots of other activities for Centrepieces artists on Zoom which others are also welcome to join in. Just email us at info@centrepieces.org. You can always become a member at a later stage if interested. Zoom login details are the same for each session: (these may change so always look out for emails announcing new log in details).
Centrepieces Mental Health Arts Project offers a constantly evolving programme of workshops and the opportunities for our artists to participate in sculpture, creative writing, mosaic and watercolour classes and many more! Here are some of the wonderful artworks created. This week's Friday abstract workshop was self portraits in the style of Picasso.
Using a tree that had shed its leaves, artist Christie Cassisa covered the bark with coloured tissue paper using water as the adhesive. The result was a tree which stood out from the others, promoting our uniqueness and embracing our colourful differences.
The project was not without its difficulties: inclement weather, strong winds, and the glue-repelling property of the tree's moss made the task of adhering the coloured tissue paper particularly challenging.Though the decorated tree was dazzingly bright, the vivid greens and yellows of the tree's ornamented branches beautifully complemented the colder, more muted greens, browns and greys of the winter landscape.
The project was not without its difficulties: inclement weather, strong winds, and the glue-repelling property of the tree's moss made the task of adhering the coloured tissue paper particularly challenging.Though the decorated tree was dazzingly bright, the vivid greens and yellows of the tree's ornamented branches beautifully complemented the colder, more muted greens, browns and greys of the winter landscape.
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Christie Cassisa
Sep 07, 2018
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