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The Maze is a painting that Canadian artist William Kurelek produced while a patient at Maudsley Hospital in London. Kurelek was born in 1927 into a Ukrainian immigrant community in Alberta, Canada, and suffered through childhood from the oppression of his farmer father.
The work’s notoriety comes from its highly graphic portrayal of Kurelek’s battle with mental illness. He painted the macabre scene in England in 1953 while a patient at London’s Maudsley Hospital. Effectively a self-portrait, The Maze portrays the artist lying on his side in a wheat field in Manitoba.
Delve into the story behind The Maze, William Kurelek’s autobiographical painting from 1953, when he was a patient at Bethlem’s sister hospital The Maudsley.
In 1952 the twenty-five-year-old William Kurelek was found wandering round the Maudsley Hospital in search of someone to admit him. He had come from Canada to seek psychiatric help.
William Kurelek, The Maas Maze, 1971, mixed media on panel, 90.8 x 121.3 cm, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca. After he returned to Canada , Kurelek completed what may be regarded as the artist’s largest and first series: The Passion of Christ , 1960–63.
31 Αυγ 1996 · The maze (gouache on board, 91X121 cm), by William Kurelek, is on show in the Bethlem Royal Hospital Museum, Beckenham, Kent, UK. This autobiographical picture was painted in 1953 when Kurelek, at the age of 26, was a patient at the Maudsley Hospital.
In this hour long film, Ukrainian Canadian artist William Kurelek reflects on his life, beginning with his earliest memories as a sensitive lad who grew on remote farms in the prairie provinces.
