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London exhibition to explore mental health and social bonds in ‘polarised’ times

Artworks to go on display in January at Bethlem Museum of the Mind, in the world’s oldest psychiatric hospital

From images of empty community rooms and a colourful canvas crammed with caricatures to a baby linked by an umbilical-like cord to a seated stranger, artworks on the subject of mental health are to go on display in an exhibition that examines social bonds against the backdrop of today’s polarised times.

Artists have long drawn on their own experiences of mental ill health. Staged at the Bethlem Museum of the Mind, in the world’s oldest psychiatric hospital, in south-east London, Kindred will explore the power of communities to make people feel comforted as well as isolated.

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© Photograph: Benji Reid/Bethlem Museum of the Mind

© Photograph: Benji Reid/Bethlem Museum of the Mind

© Photograph: Benji Reid/Bethlem Museum of the Mind

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Actor Dylan Llewellyn looks back: ‘I warned Mum that Big Boys was a bit raw. Thankfully she never commented on the glory hole scene’

The Derry Girls star and his mother, Jackie, on an unfortunate vomiting incident, struggling at school and ‘bare bottom’ scenes

Born in Reigate in 1992, the actor Dylan Llewellyn graduated from Rada in 2011. He began his career with roles in Hollyoaks and Call the Midwife, but is best known for playing James Maguire in the Channel 4 comedy Derry Girls and Jack in its sitcom Big Boys. He competes in the latest series of Celebrity Race Across the World with his mother, Jackie, on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.

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© Photograph: Pål Hansen/The Guardian

© Photograph: Pål Hansen/The Guardian

© Photograph: Pål Hansen/The Guardian

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