About Aidan

Aidan Shingler has worked in the field of visual arts for 25 years. His work is imbued with signs, symbols, synchronicity and significance and is informed by his experience of ‘schizophrenia’. He has won the Mental Health Media Award and the MIND Award. He has exhibited throughout the United Kingdom.

Currently touring:
One in a Hundred (the experience of schizophrenia)
The Emperor’s New Clothes (psychiatry stripped bare)
Only Smarties Have the Answer (the mentality of the shrink)

Reviews:
“A shaft of light into the darkness” Arts Journal
“Inexplicably beautiful” The Guardian
“Sharp, witty and in places very funny” Northern Review
“Sheer brilliance” Mail-Out
“Beyond Categorisation” Artesian