Creative Mind
You think, therefore we are.
CREATIVE MIND was established in 1977 by a group of Liverpool University students and still blares a path for creativity.
New: We have just launched our creative writing competition for 2022.
We are an organisation that combines philosophy and psychology with the creative arts. What distinguishes our activities and work, art, collections and galleries is our work in a therapeutic arts context. We have an active role in the community. Our images are used in a social manner, also with workshops and at other events. We were once described by INTERNATIONAL TIMES as a Secret Society. We have operated out of many interesting venues!
We are a loosely linked collection of writers, artists, poets, musicians, philosophers, other creatives and individuals who are keen on arts and culture. We have a great track record of Innovation and delivery.
For many years we have also been engaged in community publishing and have run creative writing sessions since 2006. We also support local history and family history with our collections which are accessed far and wide connecting heritage with the arts
We run a range of workshops plus some residential training – our last one being in Snowdon! Other activities included conferences, seminars, talks, concerts, film shows, exhibitions and competitions plus a lot more.
As a group we are sustainable and support mental health, human potential and achievement.
We want to develop some new ways of working as Creative Mind returns to its roots! Anybody can engage in our activities but we are trying to encourage more individuals in the 18-36 age group to follow our activities. We welcome your involvement.
NEXT exhibition
Life and Image 3
Old photos and postcards are of considerable interest and often value to us today, representing heritage in their own right and full glory Postcard collecting even with competition from emails, the internet, mobile phones and texts, Is still the third most popular hobby in the UK after stamp and coin collecting Most people can unearth at least one or two postcards and photos in their home With modern communication technology the sceptics said postcards and photos would become a thing of the past how wrong they are! The medium is too well established to disappear over night
Tea garden coolie girl india vintage postcard
horse drawn fire brigade vintage postcard
Girl with umbrella and doll
old neapolitan fisherman with a hat and smoking a pipe
two horses drawing a carriage with coachman in top hat with a whip vintage postcard
Pit brow lasses at work coal mining girls vintage postcard
yarmouth lifeboat lifesaving sailor crewe vintage postcard
man in a hat with watch on a chain with prize cockerel vintage postcard
Pastie and a cup of tea on a plate vintage postcard
White Star Line Majestic Titanic sister ship vintage postcard
Two rabbits and duck on a seesaw
sailors knotting and splicing ropes on a boat
Liverpool landing stage with two steamer boats and crowds
Arrowmaker Ojibwa Brave Native American
james higgs cartoon cariacature of sailor with a cigarette
Champion Hereford Cow Lady Betty Postcard
Laying a foundation stone local dignitaries 19th century vintage postcard
Russian cossack girls dancing vintage postcard
By the bumps humerous vintage postcard
Woman with a sailors cap drinking and pulling faces
three soldiers signallers with flag and lamp
An Old Salt fisherman with telescope looking out to sea
Cobras at The Snake Park Port Elizabeth
church sermons parade edwardian street scene vintage postcard
A great alne idyll boy leading a horse and cart with small girl vintage postcard
Liverpool waterfront landing stage liver birds building with steamship
two dogs smoking a pipe
Wallgate wigan early 20th century vintage postcard
Boy with cockerel
busy as a bee young girl pumping water into a bucket
The channel scorcher aviator biplane with goggles vintage postcard
Fox chained up on a roof
bridlington launching the lifeboat
dog with hat carrying a fishing rod and smoking a pipe
A run down the field footballer vintage postcard
Four women morris dancers with sashes
Boy dressed as a cowboy with lassoo
A Hindu musician with a sitar vintage postcard
old woman in a hat holding a bucket by a shed
Future exhibition
The People’s Eye
creative mind postcard farrier sheing a shire horse
sleeping mother watched over by daughter with doll old postcard
creative mind postcard row of windmills
enfield main shopping centre early 20th century postcard
creative mind postcard sailors pushing a rowing boat towards a river
creative mind postcard ancient monument
creative mind postcard ancient greek temple ruin
Two small figurines postcard
Two small figurines postcard
More information
You think, therefore we are.
Life and Image is our introduction to heritage in the form of visual arts and is the beginning of our three year project. We hope Visitors to the exhibition will find it stimulating educational and informative and encourage you to develop a greater interest in photography and postcards and naturally, in the glimpse at heritage that they offer Look on photography as emancipating the creative being within and you will realise that anyone can have a do at this the most all-embracing of art forms!