The Friends of Horton Cemetery were awarded a grant by Historic England for the Out of Sight, Out of Mind digital, arts-based project, revisioning the life histories of patients in Europe’s largest asylum cemetery.
Led by Dr Alana Harris on behalf of the charity, we seek to recapture the stories of patients and create a crowd-sourced memorial, overcoming historical amnesia, neglect, and inaction.
As a part of this project, we painted 1500 ceramic flowers to commemorate the 9000 patients buried through regular arts-therapy-based craft workshops.