{"id":294,"date":"2015-01-18T16:00:57","date_gmt":"2015-01-18T16:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fcara.org.uk\/?p=294"},"modified":"2015-03-30T15:48:59","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T15:48:59","slug":"mary-barnes-boo-bah-nunnery-gallery-16-january-29-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fcara.org.uk\/?p=294","title":{"rendered":"Mary Barnes: Boo-Bah &#8211; Nunnery Gallery 16 January-29 March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Nunnery Gallery is showing paintings by Mary Barnes (born 1923), from Friday, 16 January until Sunday, 29 March.<\/p>\n<p>Barnes was\u00a0a prolific painter who bequeathed much of her collection to her friend and psychiatrist Joseph Berke (&#8220;Boo Bah&#8221;).\u00a0 This collection is being shown for the first time, exactly 50 years since she arrived in Bow at 42 years old, and stayed at Kingsley Hall under the care of RD Laing and his team who\u00a0were\u00a0exponents of the anti-psychiatry movement.<br \/>\nRD Laing set up an alternative community within Kingsley Hall and allowed Barnes to explore her schizophrenia through writing and painting.<br \/>\nShe also\u00a0wrote a book with Berke called &#8220;Two Accounts of a Journey Through Madness&#8221; which inspired the play &#8220;Mary Barnes&#8221; by David Edgar, performed at the Royal Court in 1978.<\/p>\n<p>This exhibition launches the 2015\u00a0Nunnery Gallery Programme &#8220;In Dialogue.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To find out more about\u00a0upcoming Nunnery Gallery events and Bow Arts\u00a0<a title=\"Bow Arts\" href=\"http:\/\/bowarts.org\" target=\"_blank\">click here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nunnery Gallery is showing paintings by Mary Barnes, from Friday, 16 January until Sunday, 29 March. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community-events"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fcara.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_2922-18-19-39.jpg?fit=1280%2C960&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4GT9s-4K","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fcara.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fcara.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fcara.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fcara.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fcara.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fcara.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295,"href":"https:\/\/www.fcara.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions\/295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fcara.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/78"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fcara.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fcara.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fcara.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}