Furiously Mad 300 Years of Legal Insanity, People’s History Museum, Manchester, 02 April – 06 July 2014.
Nicola Smith co-curated the exhibition with Alison Kershaw and Pool Arts. As Co-Curator Smith led curatorial & performance workshops, artist talks, event planning to develop the overall visual structure of the exhibition and supported the artists involved. Pool Arts researched that in 1714, Parliament passed a law that for the first time allowed for the legal detention of people ‘Of little or no estates, who by lunacy, or otherwise, are furiously mad’. Pool Arts wanted to commemorate this event and history of mental health care in the UK. To find out more about the work of Pool Arts please coy and paste this link http://poolarts.org
