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Jane is the founder and Director of arts and health consultancy Willis Newson.
She has been a pioneer of the arts and health field since 1994, when she set up Vital Arts, the arts programme for Barts Health NHS Trust and in 2013 she won the Arts and Health South West Award for individual contributions to the arts and health sector.
A thought-leader in the sector over the past 20 years, Jane is particularly committed to supporting and improving evaluation practice. Working with Professor Norma Daykin, she has developed research programmes, training and resources to support improved evaluation within Arts & Health, including the development of www.creativeandcredible.co.uk.
She has also run a range of professional development programmes to support those working in the sector, and is particularly interested in quality, developing artists codes of practice, peer support, reflective practice and self-care.
Jane is currently undertaking an MSc in Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes including a research dissertation into the use of reflective creative writing to support creatives working on non-arts settings.
Jenny Pope Biography 2020
Jenny Pope has a studio at WASPS in Albion Road, Edinburgh. She trained at Edinburgh College of Art, gaining a BA in Ceramics and then graduating in 2005 with an MA in Sculpture. She uses a broad range of materials to explore the inescapable changes that happen in our internal lives and also externally in the natural environment.
She exhibits mainly in the UK and has won professional development awards. She regularly exhibits with SSA and VAS, where she is a professional member. She has recently been elected to the Royal British Society of Sculptors, in London. She has recently worked on a Creative Scotland funded residency with Art Walk Projects, and exhibited with 2 other artists about ’Tools for Survival’. She had a solo show earlier this year at Upright Gallery, Edinburgh
She divides her time between practicing artist and mental health and wellbeing work and is currently a Life Coach.
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In my interdisciplinary practice, I draw on personal life experience to explore broader issues around the body, what it means to be human, and how to make meaning in today’s world. I\'m currently making a collaborative art book about my medical experience with the breast cancer gene mutation (BRCA1). My practice includes creative writing, mixed-media, printmaking, working with archive and medical imagery, and collaborative projects. I received a Masters in Art and Science in 2018. I\'m eager to be part of a larger art community engaging medicine through art.
Joanne Coates is a working class documentary storyteller who uses the medium of photography. Based in the North of England. She is interested in modes of production, rurality, working life and class inequality. Born in the rural North of England, educated first in working class communities, then at The Sir John Cass School of Fine art (Fda Fine Art) and The London College of Communication (Ba Photography). Her practice is as much about process, participation and working with communities. Coates’ key themes are Northern culture in rural places and working class life.
Coates is currently l Artist in Residence at Berwick Visual Arts and the Director of the Arts organisation Lens Think, to meet, share, grow ideas, & develop photography in the North of England. With the aims of fighting for class equality and a more creative industries through participation and radical community arts
John Bowtell is a theatre director and dramatherapist specialising in developmental transformations (DvT) working in arts and health, therapy and training. Over twenty years his work has encompassed both NHS and independent arts sectors with a wide variety of client populations and settings. He is Training Coordinator for DvT UK training practitioners in this country and abroad. Developmental Transformations (DvT) was originally developed by David Read Johnson at the Post Traumatic Stress Center in New Haven and is now practiced all over the world in therapeutic, recreational and performance contexts. John is Artistic Director of Converse Theatre based in Lincoln and convenes the Theatre/Arts in Health subcommittee of The British Association of Dramatherapists as part of the Culture, Health and Wellbeing Alliance (CHWA).
I am a London based artist, theatre designer, arts facilitator and creative coach.
I completed an MA in Scenography at Trinity Laban Conservatoire, London in 2003.
My personal work examines individual and group status, and explores the oscillating tension between human connection and disconnection. I combine my art with a knowledge of costume design and the work, which is mostly 3D, is often fabric or thread based.
I have worked in the arts sector, designing, teaching and coaching for theatre and dance companies across the UK for over 20 years.
I\'ve been a hypnotherapist and coach since 2009. I am the instigator of a new project; The Cool Moss Project - A collection of artists and wellbeing experts working together to develop, explore and facilitate flow through creativity.
I have recently co-contributed a chapter to the Routledge Book \'The Maternal in Creative Work\', edited by Marchevska and Walkerdine.
Moving Pieces is a unique arts in health theatre company based in London. We combine performing arts with the containment of psycho-therapeutic practices and emergent ideas relating to neuroscience.
We provide courses for people experiencing mental health challenges; performers actively looking to devise theatre performance based on personal experiences; mental health professionals and those interested in drama therapy, physical theatre, applied theatre and art therapy.
We regularly perform at fringe festivals, community hubs and small theatres around the country. We are also interested in collaborating with other physical theatre companies, artists, applied theatre practitioners and educators who are also interested in the process of creating original theatre performance based on personal narrative.
Artlink was established in 1984 to support and promote the involvement of disabled people in the arts. Our aim is to increase opportunities to take part in the arts for those who experience disadvantage or disability in the East of Scotland. We offer practical support so people can get involved and work with venues to increase opportunities to enjoy the arts. Artlink establishes partnerships with artists, venues and organisations to help encourage positive change.
Trained at the University of Toronto, Concordia University and Goldsmiths University of London, Julia is an HCPC registered Art Therapist, Creative Practitioner and Founder of Collective Arts. An interest in the links between positive psychology and visual art led Julia to complete an MSc (with distinction) in positive psychology (MAPP). She has since published and presented her arts for wellbeing research at national and international conferences. In 2021 she will contribute a chapter to the upcoming Jessica Knightly textbook Art Therapy: innovative practice and new perspectives exploring the evolving relationship between art therapy and arts in health.
Over the years, Julia has designed and delivered hundreds of arts for wellbeing workshops for client groups including, women with breast cancer, perinatal wellbeing, school children, young people, adult and young carers, families, the elderly and individuals with moderate to severe mental health challenges, disabilities and special education needs. Both positive psychology and a deep understanding of the multi-layered language of visual imagery play a central role in all of her project designs.
Julia\'s other activities include creative wellbeing and communication workshops for private and public sector teams, large-scale community engagement projects (The Community Portrait, currently archived at the Museum of London, involved over 2,000 participants), experimental and pop-up art exhibitions and curatorial activities. Julia\'s most recent initiative #WhenWePaused is a virtual exhibition exploring where we find meaning and solace as the global coronavirus pandemic unfolds.