GENERAL PRACTICE 179
A doctor
A lawyer
An artist
Three generations all practicing.
ONE FINAL (this time it really is) EXTRA DAY
“Astonishing to see and experience”
“Fascinating exhibition… incredible artefacts, vital historical narrative”
And a 5 year old dictated:
“It made me feel like I was going back in time and it made me really happy and almost cry”
The installation will be open for one last day and one last evening in January 2026
From 1pm – 4pm Sunday the 4th of January 2026
And
*********SPECIAL ONE OFF EVENT **********
Wednesday 7th of January 6:30 – 8 pm
(doors will open at 4pm to visitors who’d like to view the installation before the event)
179 Burnt Ash Hill SE12 0QF
The relationship is the essential instrument of care.
In conversation: Polly Morland and Dr Rupal Shah
The writer and documentary maker, author of A Fortunate Woman: Polly Morland and Dr Rupal Shah: GP, writer and educator co author of Fighting for the Soul of General Practice and Finding Meaning in Health Care.
“where the scalpel is the essential instrument of the surgeon, so the relationship is the instrument of the general practitioner …summoning afresh, in each ten-minute increment, empathy, precision, collaborative decision making and shrewd risk management” – Polly Morland A Fortunate Woman
The installation GENERAL PRACTICE 179: A doctor, a lawyer an artist 3 generations all practicing will be open from 4pm for those who’d like to visit before the event. The talk will start at 7pm sharp.
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Born in 1977. Like her mother, on the bank of the Quaggy river in South East London Charlotte Mann has worked and works across and in between: fashion, fine art, illustration, textiles, architecture, sculpture, performance… always drawing, writing, teaching and making…
Work experienceable by the public in the UK currently:
*1st November -13th December 2025 GENERAL PRACTICE 179 Burnt Ash Hill (London SE12 0QF) an installation about doctors, patients and the art of looking after each other.
*2025 – 2027 5 Nurses. A sculptural installation at The Royal Colege of Nursing London. This work evolved from sculptural installations made in collaboration with the estate of Leigh Bowery and T J Boulting Gallery and curator Freya Bently.
*PERMANENT WORK: Liverpool Homes: In the main foyer mezzanine of the Royal Liverpool University Hospital this work consists of a 10 meter long mural and 10 individual small drawings of real peoples real homes in the Liverpool area.
*PERMANENT WORK: Across the facades and an internal wall of the QE2 hospital Welwyn Garden City Amanda, Lily and Monica (water jet cut cut stainless steel) and 49 The Wade (an 8m hand drawn mural) are works about the interface between public and private space.
*ONGOING: LOOKING/LISTENING/READING/DRAWING is a community project where anyone who feels like it can join Charlotte on Mondays at 7:30 pm at St James The Great Church Hall Peckham London to draw branches cut fresh each week from a chosen tree spending a full year January to December with each tree. So far This group has worked with Sycamore, Lime and London Plain.
*ONGOING: Drawing Laboratory is an evolving experimental teaching project run each term at The Royal Drawing School in Shoreditch London and is open to public booking.