Images by Anna Bunting-Branch & Katriona Beales
Curious about how collaborations between artists, clinicians and researchers in healthcare come together? Join us for this sharing event that explores an experimental online artist residency that has been taking place since January 2022.
The residency takes place at the National Centre for Gaming Disorders at the Central and NW London NHS Foundation Trust, led by Consultant Psychiatrist and keen art lover Prof Henrietta Bowden-Jones, and is part of the only NHS Clinic focused on treating online behavioural disorders. The residency sees artists Katriona Beales and Anna Bunting-Branch developing new artworks for the Centre alongside a series of online workshops for service users (aged 18-24yrs). Their residency explores the interplay between physical and virtual, game theory and world-building using processes such as 3D scanning and stop-motion animation. It builds on Katriona's previous body of work ‘Are We All Addicts Now?’ The residency is supported by Arts Council England.
This event is an opportunity to hear about the residency from the artists and medical professionals involved. There will be short presentations from the Centre, Katriona and Anna followed by a panel discussion and Q&A in which the artists will be joined by Prof Bowden-Jones, Alison Smith (Family Psychotherapist) and Dr Vanessa Bartlett (McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Melbourne).
Where & when.
Online (Zoom)
9th Sept, 2pm - 4pm
Cost.
Free
About the Speakers
Katriona Beales
Katriona Beales is an internationally exhibited artist whose work responds to the social implications of new technologies, mental health and digital culture. Katriona’s interdisciplinary project ‘Are we all addicts now?’ (AWAAN) supported by The Wellcome Trust and ACE, was shown at Furtherfield (2017). In 2018-20 she exhibited new commissions at the V&A, Science Gallery London, IMPAKT Netherlands (online) and a participatory green-screen installation at Autograph. Katriona has extensive experience as a workshop leader (e.g. TATE & SLG); an MA from Chelsea College of Arts supported by a Stanley Picker Bursary and an artist profile on Rhizome.org. She initiated the Gaming Disorders Artist Residency project with Dr Henrietta Bowden-Jones.
Henrietta Bowden-Jones OBE
Professor Henrietta Bowden-Jones OBE is a medical doctor and neuroscience researcher working as Consultant psychiatrist in Addictions leading two national clinics in the UK. Henrietta Bowden-Jones was appointed Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire ( OBE) in the 2019 New Year’s Honours for Services to Addiction Treatment and to Research. She is the Founder and Director of the National Problem Gambling Clinic, the first NHS treatment centre in the UK for the treatment of problem gamblers which she set up in 2008. She is also the Founder and Director of the National Centre for Gaming Disorders, the first NHS clinic in the UK treating Gaming Disorder.
Anna Bunting-Branch
Anna Bunting-Branch is an artist and researcher based in London. Her work moves between painting, writing, and animation to explore feminist speculative methodologies, which is the subject of her ongoing PhD research at Slade School of Fine Art, UCL. Her work has been presented internationally, including at Bergen Kunsthall, CCA Derry-Londonderry, FACT Liverpool, Helsinki Contemporary, ICA London, Jerwood Space, and Wysing Arts Centre. She has published work in The Sociological Review (2021), Fandom as Methodology (Goldsmiths Press, 2019), MAP Magazine (2018) and Art Licks (2018). She received a Prix Ars Electronica Honorary Mention for Computer Animation in 2021 and an Arts Council England Project Grant in 2019.
Alison Smith
Alison Smith is a systemically focussed Psychotherapist who has enjoyed the unique and interesting work with families in the National Centre for Gaming Disorder for the past 16 months, loving the challenges of constant learning in a new and dynamic pathway of behavioural addiction. She has worked within CNWL Addictions Directorate for over 26 years, predominantly in Substance Misuse and always with a focus of possibility and optimism. Alison values creativity as a wonderful resource to amplify expression, promote well-being and celebrate life.
Vanessa Bartlett
Dr Vanessa Bartlett’s research-driven curatorial projects explore how technologies shape wellbeing, resulting in expansive bodies of work across exhibitions, workshops, essays and books. Her projects at major international arts spaces, such as FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology), UNSW Galleries and Furtherfield, have been seen by over 40,000 people and have featured in The Guardian, Creative Review and BBC Radio 4. She is currently McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Melbourne, where she leads the Stomach Ache project.