Join us for this online event which explores creative responses to how mental health challenges are navigated based on our race and cultural identity. Artists Daniel Regan, Ryan Prince and Alaa Alsaraji share works and insights into what it means to be a person of colour navigating mental health systems.
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Cost.
Free
Image: Incipiency by Daniel Regan
About Daniel Regan
Daniel Regan is a visual artist specialising in exploring complex and difficult emotional experiences, focusing on the transformational impact of arts on mental health, building on his own lived experiences. His photographic works broker dialogue around often taboo topics such as grief, self injury, suicide and racism. In 2021 Daniel was commissioned by the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust to create a piece of work, Incipiency, exploring his experiences of racism and how these experiences intersect with his mental health. With additional funding from Arts Council England Daniel commissioned and co-facilitated creative anti-racism sessions for staff based at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. Daniel will share some of the learnings from his work in this session, including issues around support when making work based on lived experience.
Image: One Year of Therapy by Ryan Prince
About Ryan Prince
Ryan Prince is a photographic artist and researcher that has a particular interest in exploring the polylithic nature of black identities, specifically his own identity as a Black British male from the Jamaican Diaspora. He Explores how self-representation within visual languages such as photography may lead to a better psychological fortitude, for creators and viewers alike. Ryan will be sharing his work One Year of Therapy whilst also discussing what it means to be a Black man accessing therapy. Ryan has exhibited with institutions such as the Black Cultural Archives, The National Portrait Gallery and The Royal Photographic Society, also having work appear in publications by The British Journal of Photography, It’s Nice That and Photoworks. Ryan was awarded a bursary from the Martin Parr Foundation where his work can be found as part of the collection.
Image: Alaa Alsaraji
About Alaa Alsaraji
Alaa is a visual artist and creative facilitator. Her practice involves working with community and school groups and is centred around the themes of belonging, reimagining space and community. She draws from her own experience of migration and displacement to connect on how universal feelings of ‘belonging’ can be collectively expressed.
Alaa is also the arts editor of Khidr Collective, a multidisciplinary artist collective creating platforms and spaces for young Muslim creatives through the annual Khidr Zine and online platform.