Two Temple Place is the lignophile’s dream. Imagine being the woodlouse that gets to tunnel through a carved oak frieze of Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra. The experience is similar for the visitor moving through its ornately panelled halls. 

The building has opened its doors to the public again for a major free exhibition, The Weight of Being: Vulnerability, Resilience and Mental Health in Art, which runs until 19 April. The show brings together a diverse selection of works by contemporary and 20th-century British artists to explore some of the ways in which mental health shapes artistic expression.