Tag: art
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
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
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.
MA Interim Show
FinalElement is the MA Fine Art interim show. I am delighted to be showing some of my recent work at this exhibition in the Otter Gallery, University of Chichester. The Private view is on Thursday 15 November 2018 6 to 8pm. The exhibition then runs from 16 November to 18 December. Mon-Fri 9am – 7pm, Sat-Sun 11am – 3pm. The Otter Gallery can be found at The Bishop Otter Campus, College Lane, Chichester PO19 6PE.
Work in Progress Summer Studios
So during the summer we get access to the studio spaces, which means we can experiment with our work and try out new things.
I have been recently using my MRI images to inspire my work. Â These have mostly been fairly small pieces.
I have been exploring going bigger, making a piece that is life-size.
Studio space for the Summer
So this week we were able to move into our studio spaces for the summer. I am looking forward to creating lots of new work.
May Exhibitions
May Exhibitions
May always brings a glut of art to look at and enjoy particularly in Brighton where we have the Brighton Festival. This year the guest director David Shrigley has put on an interactive installation Life Model II at Fabrica Gallery. The installation features a larger than life mannequin in the middle of a typical life drawing set up. Visitors are encouraged to take part and draw the model, these efforts are show on the walls.
David Shrigley Life Drawing II
A big part of Brighton Festival is the Artists Open Houses. Artists open their or their friends homes to the public for the purpose of selling their wares. This gives people chance to bag a locally made bargain while having a good nose around other peoples houses in different parts of town. The reality is that a lot of houses are operating as a craft fair selling jewellery, home-wares, prints of assorted Brighton landmarks such as the Royal Pavilion and the pier, seagull models and other assorted products of varying quality accompanied by tea and cake in the garden. This is I think the result of the high cost of being part of the artist houses trail. But occasionally you find a house showing good quality paintings or sculpture. This is the case with the Collectors Selection, part of the Hove trail, which is showing a good selection of Sculpture. Including work by Eve Shepherd and Fiona Morley.
Eve Shepherd
Fiona Morley
Phoenix artist studios open weekend was a great opportunity to see a wide variety of professional artist’s studios and the work they create. It was also great to catch up with Lucy Brown, Michelle Cobin and Eve Shepherd and see their latest work and be encouraged with my work.
Lucy Brown ‘In 1962 the birth control pill was available… but only to married women’
Michelle Cobbin Composure
Last but not least is the degree show at the University of Chichester. Students present an exhibition which is the culmination of three years study.
Mai-ly Medjantseva
Annabel Graham-Black
Charlotte McCarthy
Gabriel Olalekan
Karen Lintott 