Art Exhibition visits Salisbury Cathedral

Pictures for The Beehive, the art exhibition raising funds for Diverse Abilities’ Splash Appeal, is visiting Salisbury Cathedral as part of a tour to showcase drawings of the people supported by the disability charity.

The first showing of this exhibition in September 2021 was accompanied by an auction of donated work by acclaimed artists including Antony Gormley, Maggi Hambling and Paula Rego. The event raised over £100,000 towards The Splash Appeal which aims to raise over £1million to build a much-needed state-of-the-art therapy pool for the adult’s supported to the charity, who currently do not have the access they need to hydrotherapy.

Henrietta Young, artist and curator of the exhibition, commented: “It was a great privilege to get to know and make friends with the people at The Beehive, and the whole business of drawing and being drawn was an extraordinary experience for everyone involved in the project. We hope that people viewing the resulting work will come away with a better understanding of disability.”

The exhibition will be open to the public in the cloisters at Salisbury Cathedral on Saturday 16 (9.30am until 4pm) and Sunday 17 July (12.30pm until 3pm).

Helen Mortimer, development manager at Diverse Abilities, added: “Henrietta’s passion to raise the visibility of those with disabilities through art is remarkable. It is very exciting to display these portraits for people to see in Salisbury, with the opportunity to raise awareness and hopefully funds towards the desperately needed hydrotherapy pool.”

Visit picturesforthebeehive.org.uk to find out more about the exhibition and dates of the tour in Bournemouth, Suffolk, Kent and London.