The Arts and Health Hub and the Southbank Centre present their next event focusing on the theme of Collaborations. This event focuses on the complex work of artists working collaboratively with patients to delve into the ways in which the two can work in synergy to present insights into lived experiences of health conditions.
The session includes case studies directly from artists, highlighting some of the complexities of this work, including:
The challenges that artists face in going beyond just ‘illustrating’ health difficulties;
The complexity of the relationship between patient and artist: building trust, feeling seen and heard, communicating effectively;
The responsibility of the artist in telling stories on the behalf and with patients.
There will be time for a Q&A with the presenters, as well as discussion time on the benefits and challenges to this way of working, with time to meet and connect with others at the event.
Contributing Artists: Toby Peach & Emma Barnard.
About Toby Peach
Toby is a Theatre Maker and Artist based in London, who is Associate Director at interactive theatre-makers Coney and Artistic Director of Beyond Arts. Since 2015, Toby has been developing an exciting methodology, which uses creative practice to connect with, and create stories for, and with, young people who have had cancer. In 2019 he setup Beyond Arts, a CIC that aims to use art to break down taboos about cancer in the UK. Beyond's projects empower young people who’ve experienced cancer to find their own language to communicate their experiences to others and together we evolve the cancer narrative. Toby was on the BBC Performing Arts Fund ‘Ones to Watch’ list in 2015 & completed a BBC Community Theatre Fellowship with The Old Vic.
The Origin of Carmen Power is a free digital adventure for 7-13 years old exploring Carmen’s experience of having a brain tumour at the age of 7 and the Superhero who came out of that experience. It was made with Carmen over three years and is told using her language, her toys and in her own way to share her experience in a way that would be honest and playful for young people to engage with. Originally devised as a live-show, this show pivoted due to the pandemic, and Toby will be reflecting on the process of making work with a 10-year-old, the project landing in Great Ormond Street Hospital and long term participatory projects.
About Emma Barnard
Emma Barnard is a visual artist who uses lens - based media in her work to explore social commentary, seeking to expose contemporary issues and encourage debate around them. Emma uses art to highlight the perspective and lived experience of others and has worked extensively with academics and researchers to do this. She has recently been working on an Arts Council England funded project with young people at risk titled Through the Looking Glass: Life Behind the Knife, seeking to highlight their experiences. Emma’s work has been presented at a number of conferences including at UCL, King’s College, Cambridge University and most recently at the Royal Society of Medicine, London.
Founded in 2012 by Emma and ENT consultant surgeon Mike Papesch, the Patient As Paper project was a collaborative work between to investigate and demonstrate the patient experience and pathway. It encourages doctors, medical professionals and students to reflect on being a receiver of medical care and its impact on people, offering patients a “visual voice” and reflecting some of the harsh realities people endure in their pursuit of ‘getting better’. It deliberately avoids questionnaires and provides people with a ‘clean slate’ to express their thoughts, fears, aspirations and worries – all part of being in our healthcare system – and draws to attention the degree of depersonalization that inevitably occurs when people are hospitalised.
Louise Bourgeois: The Woven Child at the Hayward Gallery
The Southbank Centre can offer a limited number of tickets for a tour of the first major retrospective of this legendary artist to focus exclusively on her work using fabrics and textiles. Bourgeois’s fabric works mine the themes of identity and sexuality, trauma and memory, guilt and reparation that are central to her long and storied career. If you would like to participate in the tour ahead of our event, please select the correct ticket type (which states with tour). Those participating will meet at the Hayward Gallery at 12pm on 9th March. Please note tickets cannot be transferred to an alternative time slot.
Cost
£5
Bursaries
Limited bursaries are available to those who will struggle to afford the £5 ticket fee. These are reserved for those on low incomes and receiving benefits or barriers that would prevent them from affording the ticket fee. Please email info@artsandhealthhub.org for more information.
Access
If you have any access requirements please contact us on info@artsandhealthhub.org with your needs so that we can discuss this with the team at the Southbank Centre.