Join us at London’s Southbank Centre for our in-person September artist peer group.
Established in 2015 our artist peer groups are an opportunity for artists exploring health and wellbeing in their practice to gain feedback and support on their projects, ideas or challenges that they are facing. The space is for active feedback, meaning that artists aren’t sharing finished works, but asking for specific support from others attending the session. Together we pool resources and provide feedback in a supportive environment.
Our presenting artists for this session are Carli Adby and Sam Buchanan exploring women’s health and our relationship to sleep. Our facilitators for this session are Daniel Regan and Paloma Tendero. If you have any questions about the event, including regarding accessibility, please contact us at info@artsandhealthhub.org.
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Cost.
Pay What You Can (suggested donation: £5) / Free
Images: Carli Adby
About Carli Adby
A practice spanning both personal and commercial, Carli’s work tends to begin from an autobiographical enquiry and is underpinned by feminist narratives, with a focus on attempting to create change and make space for conversations that may otherwise be considered taboo.
Sam is interested in collaboration and the creative process as a way to build community through sharing lived experiences. Exploring themes such as gender performance & expectation, fertility, our relationship with the body and, education within female health and ageing, and the ways these manifest within the ephemeral nature of identity.
“I’ve been investigating the history of female health and aging and, am embarking on a large research-based process via avid reading; in addition to exploring participatory practices that both share and create knowledge via storytelling, conversation & community engagement. I currently have two working projects which support this; ‘Dear Womb’ and ‘The skin we are in.’
I am keen to further my enquiry first and foremost, by way of an interdisciplinary relationship, working with institutes or professionals to push my development as an artist and the project, to the next level; with the aim to examine these subjects further, create new resources for learning and form / bring together inclusive & supportive communities.
Subsequently I am struggling to understand how I can begin to find and foster these relationships with community organisations, educational institutions or those in the science, medical and historical fields with the ambition to genuinely create change and engage with real women.
I’d like to understand how my ideas or practice, alongside community-based research, can examine these ideas within an interdisciplinary method, how to begin with that and how those projects are supported, started, funded, discussed and just where to begin really.
I have begun exploring collage, the use of mixed media, sound, and sculpture so it would be interesting to understand how others might perceive these experiments and their value within the realms of my practice and the subject matter and, how these sorts of things can form part of the collaboration and research.
I’d really love to be able to offer tangible support, safe spaces, or sympathetic recognition for the abundance of health and aging related experiences women have within their lives. (As per the themes which appear in my practice such as gender normative practices, fertility, ambiguity, body, biology, ageing and the representation of that…) and just know that there is a way to do this via collaboration with those in other fields, it is currently just a minefield of unknowns, particularly given the nature of the topics involved.”
About Sam Buchanan
Sam is a photographer based in Cambridge. She is currently studying for an MA with Falmouth University.
Sam’s practice, which has evolved during the MA, focuses on human health, specifically how modern life impacts our physical and mental health. Currently exploring our circadian rhythms, Sam is particularly drawn to sleep and the impact of the conflicting demands of a 24/7 society. Her current project is comprised of three series of images, employing digital and Polaroid photography, together with medical imagery of her own brain. Just as chance plays a part in our health, Sam is also experimenting with introducing an element of unpredictability into the work.