2024
Welcome to the 12th Out of Sight Out of Mind exhibition. It presented artworks by 310 people who have experience of mental health issues.
The exhibition took place across three floors of Summerhall, from 9 - 27 October 2024, and had 1961 visitors. Artworks included films, paintings, sculptures, photography, installations and more.
Artworks explored many topics: mental health, a joy of making, a personal story of another sort and others. Many people responded to the Scottish Mental Health theme of In/Visible, and expressed the tension between being seen and unseen.
The exhibition is a celebration of diversity, personal strength, and the power of community. This year it was also an invitation to explore the nuances of visibility and invisibility in all our lives.
Inspired by this years theme, the Planning Group created a space within the exhibition where visitors were invited to ‘Make Yourself Visible’, by adding a portrait of themselves to the exhibition.
Below are photos from the Launch Event and photos of the exhibition by each gallery room. You can also see the 2024 poster and read what it meant to exhibitors and visitors in this year.
Information Room
Ground Floor Gallery
First Floor Corridor Gallery
Meadows Gallery I
Meadows Gallery II
Meadows Gallery III
Meadows Gallery IV
Corner Gallery
Basement Corridor Gallery
Basement I Gallery
Basement II Gallery
RUTS Gallery
Lower Cafe Basement Gallery
2024 Poster
The 2024 Out of Sight Out of Mind poster is now Visible!
Since 2013 all of the OOSOOM posters have been designed by Michael Dawson in close collaboration with the Planning Group. The process began with discussions around this years’ Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival theme ‘In/Visible’.
Discussions explored the feeling of being visible in unwelcome ways, because of perceptions around having a mental health issue, as well as their feeling of being invisible or the burden of invisible challenges they face.
They also chatted about how the exhibition itself grew from feelings of invisibility and how it has grown and become a space to bring visibility to all those who have experiences of mental health issues.
What does it mean to you? 2024
Each year we ask; if you are a visitor to the exhibition, an exhibitor, a friend or relative of one, a project partner or anyone else at all, ‘What does the exhibition means to you?’
We appreciate the responses and hearing the different meanings the exhibition has.