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Brightly coloured illustration of four people indoors: an adult braids a child's hair while another adult lies down and a second child stands close.

Wellcome CollectionEuston

Rudy Loewe: Intimacies of Care – Spaces of Grief and Possibility

Now showing10 July 2026 – 7 February 2027Free

Multidisciplinary artworks by Rudy Loewe reimagine mental healthcare, centring the lived experience of Black people whose UK care is shaped by racist discrimination.

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In Rage, a Black figure with a head of flame stands behind a line of police officers. Loewe made it, like the rest of the show, from workshops with ADHD Babes, the Black Trans Foundation and Black and Neurodiverse, starting from one number: Black people in the UK are four times more likely to be detained under the Mental Health Act.

A light sculpture laid out like a bingo card lights up the barriers people met on one side and the care they wanted on the other. List of Demands is going to the government as a petition. Then you can lie down inside The Space Within, a dome based on buildings from Zululand, Namibia and Cameroon, and listen.

The Intelligent called it "a quiet indictment of a system that chews people up and spits them out". It's free, in Gallery 2 on level 1, shared with Audrey Amiss's show. Ear defenders and weighted lap pads are there to borrow, and Wellcome says weekday mornings are quietest.

Look for

  • Rage

    Look for the orange and red painting of a flame-headed Black figure, with police officers standing as a barrier between you and them.

  • The Search for Care / The Lack of Care

    A double-sided grid like a bingo card whose cubes light up one at a time: barriers on one side, words like trust, safety and dignity on the other.

  • Activation Sculpture

    Four giant clasped hands that unfurl into seating, holding dried healing plants, a painting on tinder fungus and the recorded voices of workshop participants.

  • The Space Within

    A warm-toned dome built for resting when you're overstimulated, with four sound pieces to choose between or silence.

  • It Takes a Community to Hold These Wounds

    Five Black people gathered in a living room among white lilies, a mourning scene drawn from the Caribbean funeral custom of Nine Nights.

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  • Cheap Culture
  • Going Solo

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You come to Wellcome for medical objects: this is all new paintings, sculpture and sound by one artist.

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