Voices from the Wall: An exhibition of photographs by Tom Lackey

In 1860, patients of the Provincial Lunatic Asylum, as it was then known, began construction of the brick wall that would separate and conceal their lives from the surrounding world for more than one hundred years. Today the surviving segments of that wall are both a monument and an emotionally charged manuscript.

Recorded on its bricks with incised vigor are dates, names, words and symbols with meaning for generations of patients. Today, the wall is being restored as part of CAMH’s transformation into a hospital for the 21st Century. Tom Lackey has captured these Voices from the Wall in a hauntingly beautiful series of photographs.

Lennox Gallery
12 Ossington Avenue*
416 924-7964

*Parking is available just north of the gallery at 18 Ossington Avenue.

Updated October 03, 2007

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