Exhibition Launch

Posted on September 22nd, 2008 with 0 comments

When the exhibition was completely set up we realized it was going to have far more impact than we first thought. We had designed five Perspex cubes each showing four images that slowly rotated. The cubes depicted staff and service users wearing T-shirts with a name that they had been called at some time in their lives. The words were both negative and positive. The movement of the cubes helped give the feeling of how temporary a name can be and yet how it can stay in our minds for a long time.

The exhibitions aim was to make us all aware of the stigma attached to people with learning disabilities and mental ill health. It challenged the viewer to think of what words have been used to describe them and how it made them feel.

The combination of this and the photographs on large canvas depicting positive relationships really had a great impact on the opening night.

So successful was this first week that the Community Learning Disability Directorate have decided to move the exhibition around Nottinghamshire as part of their ongoing anti-stigma work.

Due to the success and effectiveness of these anti-stigma projects Crocodile House has been invited to be involved in another campaign next year.

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