‘No Comment’ - Koestler Arts
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‘No Comment’ - Koestler Arts

“No comment” Koestler Arts - An exhibition of artworks made by people in prisons, secure mental health hospitals and young offender institutions. Exhibition at the Southbank Centre 2024 - 2025

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Environmental Arts Therapies
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Environmental Arts Therapies

Just photographs as records, rather than words, taken during a 4 month experiential learning group and summer solstice gathering alongside a group of Art Psychotherapists in Highgate Woods, and Waterlow Park, London.

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Foundling Museum tokens
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Foundling Museum tokens

Between the 1740’s and 1760’s, babies would be left at the Foundling Hospital with a small object as a means of identification. There are aroud 400 tokens in the Foundling Museums Collection, with many thousand more paper and textiles ones in the archives.

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Poorly Exhibition
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Poorly Exhibition

Poorly invited people to explore experiences and perspectives on health, illness and disability. It hosted the work of 35 artists, who all have a voice, and contribute to the language of creating a more inclusive world, as those that are poorly. Curated by Phoebe Kanieswksa and Olivia Crosby at AMP Gallery, Southeast ondon.

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The Embrace ; Parallel Process
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The Embrace ; Parallel Process

The Embrace exhibited as part of ‘Parallel Process’ an exhibition by MA Art Psychotherapy students. Hosted at the Whitehead Building and the Kingsway Corridor at Goldsmiths University, London. Friday 14th June 2024 - Monday 17th June 2024

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Responses to Placement…
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Responses to Placement…

Process-led and reflective pieces that were created to support my thinking during my clinical training placement…

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Modern Mingei
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Modern Mingei

Exhibition visit at the Brunei Gallery, London in April 2024.

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Clay Making…
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Clay Making…

Working sculpturally during my training to become an art psychotherapist…

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Boro Boro
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Boro Boro

Japanese Aesthetics of recycling at SOAS University of London. July - September 2023. Read More Here.

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‘Differently Various’
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‘Differently Various’

Headway East London, a charity supporting people affected by brain injury. ‘Differently Various’, an exhibition I visited July 2023, at the Barbican, London.

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Freud Museum, Hampstead
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Freud Museum, Hampstead

Site visit in the early days of my clinical training. Spending time thinking about Freud and his contributions to the field of Art Psychotherapy.

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Museum of the Mind, Bethlem Royal Hospital
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Museum of the Mind, Bethlem Royal Hospital

Site visit in 2022, using Bethlem’s collections and visiting exhibition to reflect, consider and explore what looking, thinking and feeling artworks was like as a trainee Art Psychotherapist.

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Processions
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Processions

‘Processions’ 2018 NOW ; a project that I worked on which enabled me to bring together over 60 women to create a banner, which would go on ‘procession’ in London in 2018. It was part of a ‘living artwork’ where thousands of people came together across the country to mark the anniversary of women taking up their rights to vote.

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