The Medium is the Message
College of Psychic Studies, London
9 October 2025 – 31 January 2026
Before today, I associated Queensberry Place only with the learning of French at the Institut Français; little did I know that, all the while, across the road, another place of learning has all-too-aptly been hidden in plain sight – for the last 100 years, No 16 has been home to the College of Psychic Studies, where mediumship is the subject and object of study. To celebrate this centenary, the college’s curator and archivist, Jacqui McIntosh, has brought together more than 100 artworks and archival treasures, by more than 35 artists from the mid-19th century to the present day, to explore the long, rich and complex relationship between artistic practice and mediumship, in The Medium is the Message.
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