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reports : IT, Art and Mental Health Project
Kaleidoscope is a National Schizophrenia Fellowship Centre. It is an employment initiative offering training for work in computing, desk top publishing, design and artwork. In this sense, it is both creative and vocational, offering tailor-made training sessions to meet each user's needs and aspirations. The tutor, Hannah Jamieson is a designer herself and feels that, "Any creative process produces positive effects. The ability to design and create artwork is invigorating and refreshing and can provide a positive outcome in an otherwise colourless world."
The artists at the centre have produced artwork to illustrate poems, Daisy, Hypocrisy, Mind Scrutiny, Rhythm of Life; art for commercial purposes and, above all, art for art's sake. They have exhibited some of their work at galleries in Birmingham.
Much of the work from Kaleidoscope is concerned with pushing colour and pattern to the limit. Totem, Sword and Guns started with photos which were scanned into Adobe Photoshop. The artists then rubbed out the edges to give a softer look and played with different hues and changed the intensity of the colours.
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