(Arts) Education:
BFA, Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford (2013 – 2017)
Foundation Diploma in Art and Design, Camberwell College of Art (2012 – 2013)
Selected exhibitions:
2021 – Melancholy: A New Anatomy, Weston Library (the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford)
2020 – a basic artist, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford
2019 – Switching Perceptions, Life Rewired Hub, Barbican, London
2018 – 2019 Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, UK
2019 – bare lines, Safehouse, Group Exhibition, Peckham
2019 – Switching Perceptions, Bethlem Gallery, Beckenham
Projects:
2024 to present – Inspired Nature
2020 – 2021 – Green spaces of a self, part of Melancholy: A New Anatomy, Weston Library, Oxford
2017 – 2021 – Collaboration with Dr Liz Tunbridge – Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford and The National Psychosis Unit & Bethlem Gallery, Bethlem Royal Hospital
Facilitation:
March 2025 – Inspired Nature walking and art-making day-workshop, Braziers Park, Oxfordshire
February 2024 – Community Mindfulness-informed Walk, Braziers Park, Oxfordshire
2024 to present – Inspired Nature
March 2024 – Contemplative Walking and Drawing retreat-day-workshop, Braziers Park, Oxfordshire
May – June 2021 – workshops in the Harcourt Arboretum, Oxford, part of Melancholy: A New Anatomy
October 2019 – exploratory workshops, part of Switching Perceptions, Life Rewired Hub
July – September 2019 – Bethlem Royal Hospital, National Psychosis Unit, 9 Week Project
April 2019 – Single Session workshops, Queen’s College London
January – March 2019 – Bethlem Gallery public workshops, part of Switching Perceptions
August – October 2018 – Bethlem Royal Hospital, National Psychosis Unit, 11 Week Project
Summer 2018 – Supporting artist in Charlbury SMILE, Dementia – Arts groups
Residencies:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, 2019
AYYO Contemporary Art, August 2017
Collections:
The National Psychosis Unit, Bethlem Royal Hospital
Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford
Ashmolean Museum – Western Art Print Room, Oxford
Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford
Recent awards:
a-n Artist Bursary, 2020
University of Oxford Vice-Chancellor’s Public Engagement with Research Awards, 2019 (for Switching Perceptions)
Writing:
Bethlem Gallery commissioned a piece during the Covid Pandemic for their Under Construction Programme [Grounded Shared Space, 2020]
The Late Brian Catling RA wrote about Switching Perceptions, Bethlem Gallery and Bethlem Royal Hospital [the Singing PART OF IMAGINATION, 2019]
To request PDFs of these writings, or any project or exhibitions information, please email mail@eleanorminneydrawing.co.uk. Paper copy booklets are available for Switching Perceptions.
© Eleanor Minney Drawing All work Copyright Eleanor Minney 2025
