Wellcome Collection 2024 Programme

Wellcome Collection presents a major solo exhibition by artist Jason Wilsher-Mills. Presenting his largest commission to date, the exhibition will be a joyful and subversive exploration of Wilsher-Mills’ experience of becoming disabled as a child. The large-scale installation will invite visitors on a colourful immersive journey examining our social and cultural ideas about the body, medicine and disability on a monumental scale. The exhibition will celebrate childhood, memory and popular culture, infused with the artist’s trademark humour and magic-realist depictions of episodes from his life. 

In the summer, and to coincide with his exhibition, Wilsher-Mills will take over Wellcome Collection’s atrium with works from his ‘Jason and his Argonauts’ series. This will include his playful and poignant sculpture ‘I am an Argonaut’. Taking inspiration from William Harvey (1578–1657), the Royal Physician credited with the first description of the human circulatory system, the work is reflection of Wilsher-Mills’ own experience of disability.  

‘I am an Argonaut’ was commissioned by Shape Arts and Folkestone Triennial 2021.

Stories From Our Collections
Early summer 2024

Wellcome Collection is launching a new series of displays about power in health and care. Inspired by items from our collections – from plant specimens and recipe books to zines and medicine kits, these focused displays will host new research from a range of collaborators, inviting new perspectives and expanding our understanding of health and human experience.

Work (title tbc)
19 September 2024 – 27 April 2025

The idea of work is central to the systems that have shaped our world and infrastructures of power.

This major exhibition will explore the relationship between work, health and the body. Sharing narratives from the perspective of workers whose occupations are often overlooked and undervalued, and featuring historical materials, contemporary artworks and new commissions, ‘Work’ will explore how people have fought for better working conditions through resistance and collective action.

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Notes to editors

Please note that this is advance programme information. Further details will be announced later in 2024. Dates and titles for exhibitions may be subject to minor changes. Please check with Wellcome Collection’s Media Office prior to publication.

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About Wellcome Collection

Wellcome Collection is a free museum and library exploring health and human experience. Our vision is a world where everyone’s experience of health matters, and we offer a changing programme of free exhibitions, events, museum and library collections, in addition to a café and shop. Wellcome Collection publishes books on what it means to be human, and collaborates widely to reach broad and diverse audiences, locally and globally.  

Wellcome Collection actively develops and preserves collections for current and future audiences and, where possible, offers new narratives about health and the human condition. Wellcome Collection works to engage underrepresented audiences, including d/Deaf, disabled, neurodivergent, and racially minoritised communities. 

Wellcome Collection is part of Wellcome, which supports science to solve the urgent health challenges facing everyone. We support discovery research into life, health and wellbeing, and we’re taking on three worldwide health challenges: mental health, infectious disease, and climate and health.