Author: Karen Lintott
Brighton Art and Health Network
I discovered Brighton Art and Health Network during the pandemic. It was through them that I did the Flourish Artists training project in 2022 for artists to learn how to facilitate art and health workshops. I was asked to facilitate a workshop and talk about my journey into the Art and Health field for the December 2024 Art and Health Network meeting organised by Creative Future.
Below are some of the photographs from the work shop. Photographs by Diensen Pamben
Here & Now Exhibition
I was delighted to be part of this exhibition in December 2024.
Solo Exhibition at Wellsbourne Healthcare CIC
I was delighted to have my first solo exhibition at Wellsbourne Healthcare CIC, Brighton in August 2024. Some of the work exhibited was inspired by my MRI scans, so it seemed appropriate to be showing them in a health-centre.
More information can be found here https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1003392798457461&id=100063602516142&mibextid=wwXIfr&rdid=92rHpdEr7irPAPpf
Sussex Contemporary Exhibition 2023
I am delighted to have been selected for the Sussex Contemporary Exhibition 2023.
The exhibition is taking place at The Brighton i360 and will be open daily from Saturday 7th October and closes on Saturday 21st October 2023.
Flourish Artist
I am delighted to be part of Creative Future’s Flourish Artists training programme.
FLOURISH was a free training opportunity from Creative Future as part of The Hera Partnership programme, delivered with funding from Brighton & Hove City Council.
The training was designed to support creative practitioners/facilitators who are interested in the field of Arts for Health and Wellbeing, were complete beginners or had up to a year’s of experience, and live or work in Brighton & Hove. It included workshops, mentoring, peer-to-peer support and work shadowing opportunities.
https://www.creativefuture.org.uk/arts-health-and-wellbeing/flourish/flourish-1/
Published
The paper I wrote during my MA and presented at 15th International Conference on the Arts in Society has finally been published. Do check it out if you can access academic papers on line. International Journal of Social, Political & Community Agendas in the Arts . Jun2022, Vol. 17 Issue 1, p1-17. 17p. Please contact me for further information.
15th International Conference on the Arts in Society
Last week I was supposed to be in Galway at the 15th International Conference on the Arts in Society. Like most things these days it went virtual, so I spent the time watching video submissions from other participants. The conference concluded with a Zoom call with about 20 other participants. My only previous experience of academic conferences was the medical conferences I attended when I worked in the pharmaceutical industry. The human interaction of discussing shared interests was missing and hard to replicate online.
My talk was based on the paper I wrote for my MA.
Making Art in Response to a Rare, Life-limiting Illness Diagnosis
ABSTRACT
How does one comprehend and adjust to a diagnosis of a rare life-limiting illness? This paper discusses how I have used art to respond to a diagnosis of Amyloidosis. The discussion is set within the context of artists, Jo Spence, Robert Pope, Elizabeth Jameson, Deborah Padfield, and Eugenie Lee who made work in response to cancer, multiple sclerosis, chronic pain, and endometriosis diagnoses. The paper discusses how and what art can communicate about the experience of serious illness and will examine how (Murray & Gray, 2008) views on the psychology of health and (Carel, 2019) considerations of phenomenology can be used to interpret the experience of ill health for the individual. The paper will also consider how, if artwork is made as part of a healing or therapeutic process, it can also communicate something of the experience to others including clinicians, other patients, carers and the wider public. Set within current debate on the role of the arts in health and well-being, the paper considers how art can interpret and communicate the medical and personal reality of complex medical conditions and the experience of living with those conditions.
The talk can be found on YouTube https://youtu.be/AkrYJ4juwEM
MA & Other Postgraduates 2020 Exhibition
Press Release
MA & Other Postgraduates 2020
Atkinson Gallery, Millfield
Monday 24 February – Saturday 21 March 2020
Private View: Monday 24 February, 7-9pm
The MA & Other Postgraduates
Exhibition supports artists emerging from postgraduate study to be part of a collective show which aims to represent a broad range of disciplines and contemporary styles.
Each year universities across the UK are invited to nominate up to 5 students whom they believe represent the highest quality and standards in their personal artistic practice. Selections are then made from these entries with around 45 works being chosen to be exhibited.
The ethos of the Atkinson Gallery is to support upcoming artistic talent and through the MA & Other Postgraduates Exhibition the gallery is able to offer a unique opportunity to emerging artists in a specifically designed space which has a long history of quality exhibitions.
‘On a Green Day She Wears Her Felt Dress’
Laura Hudson – City & Guilds of London Art School (2019)
FURTHER INFORMATION ON EXHIBITONS CAN BE OBTAINED FROM: atkinsongallery@millfieldschool.com
t. 01458 444322
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@galleryatkinson
Bedazzled
I am delighted to announce the opening of the MA Fine Art Exhibition Bedazzled 10 to 18 September 2019. Private View 11 September 2019 6-8 pm. Artone the University of Chichester. Do come along and see mine and other artists latest work.
Karen Lintott 