Join us at our October virtual artist peer group, an opportunity to hear from two artists about their practice. Our peer groups provide the space for artists to share active ideas, projects and challenges, with peer support from audience participants.

Our artists this month are Daniel Regan and Savannah Dodd.

The event takes place over Zoom with a break in the middle.

Image: Daniel Regan

Daniel Regan is a photographic artist specialising in exploring complex and difficult emotional experiences, focusing on the transformational impact of arts on mental health, building on his own lived experience.

Daniel is currently working on a commission for the Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust, creating works focused on his lived experiences of racism and how they have impacted his mental health. Daniel will be installing this work in December and is looking to get feedback on how the work could be shown, plus the secondary participatory part of the project.

Image: Savannah Dodd

Savannah Dodd is a photographer and anthropologist. She is a St. Louis native who now calls Northern Ireland home. In 2017, Savannah founded the Photography Ethics Centre.

Savannah says: “I am currently preparing a creative arts programme for family carers for people who have dementia. This programme will begin with a facilitated discussion using my photobook to help them begin to consider how they can express their experience as carers visually. Then there will be 3 workshops, each using a different visual method, each based in photography (photo collage, photo weaving, and photo transfer). This project will culminate in a public exhibition. I would love advice on best practices, suggestions for delivery, and any other ideas that people may have to ensure that this programme serves the intended audience in the best way possible.”