Arts & Health Hub Members

Maeve Butler has extensive experience working in the Visual Arts. She is currently Head of Access and Engagement at Void Gallery, Derry. Working on Engage, Void’s learning and outreach programme, Maeve is particularitly interested in the how the arts can support health and wellbeing. Previous roles include  Gallery Development Manager for Photo London;  Assistant Curator in the Touring department of the Hayward Gallery organising the exhibitions, Elizabeth Price Curates, Art From Elsewhere and Listening;  Exhibitions Manger and Galleries and Museums liaison for Antony Gormley Studio where she oversaw the installation of large-scale commissions and exhibitions worldwide from conception to installation; Exhibition Manager at the Royal Academy of Art, London where she managed various exhibitions including Anselm Kiefer; From Paris, A Taste  for Impressionism and Mexico: A Revolution in Art. Maeve also spent 4 years working at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, working with a wide variety of contemporary and modern artists including Philippe Parreno, Douglas Gordon, Liam Gillick,  Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Lucian Freud,  Rivane Neuenschwander and  Isaac Julien. She was part of the founding team of Dublin Contemporary.

Mandeep Singh is a rapper, composer, saxophonist and NHS doctor based in London. Having discovered rap during a difficult period of medical school, he developed a deep interest in not only carving out a career within music, but its applications within healthcare and specifically psychiatry. Whilst performing solo and as a bandleader on stages for Saul Williams, Stephen Fry, De La Soul at the UK\'s most prestigious venues, he developed a varied practice in the arts-and-health. He regularly hosts workshops in psychiatric wards, schools and teaches medical students, has presented his research into urban music and mental health internationally, and runs \'The Prop Up\', London\'s first series of neurodiverse live urban music events funded by Arts Council England and the Royal College of Psychiatry. In 2019, he co-composed and performed the opening ceremony for TEDxNHS. In 2020, he was awarded the highly prestigious BBC \'Culture In Quarantine\' commission, producing a concept album about isolation during lockdown to be premiered nationally in September 2020. He is currently working as a foundation year 1 doctor in Broomfield Hospital, Chelmsford.

I am an artist, junior doctor and aspiring psychiatrist interested in the intersection between creativity and mental health.

Hi!

My name is Maria, I am a Sociologist and an Applied Theatre Specialist.

I have been developing my personal, academic, and professional career in the fields of project management, applied drama, community engagement, and health and social care in the UK, Portugal, Spain and Brazil. 

At the moment, I work as a Creative Partner and Online Moderator with icandance, in dance and movement therapy classes with disabled children and young people.

I would love to connect with like-minded people and learn more about this fascinating world.

Mary Moynihan is an award-winning writer, director, theatre and film-maker, Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality, and a Theatre Lecturer at the TU Dublin Conservatoire. As Artistic Director of Smashing Times, Mary specialises in using interdisciplinary arts practice to promote human rights, peace building, gender equality and positive mental health and wel-being, developing cutting edge arts-based projects with a range of organisations in Ireland, Northern Ireland and across Europe. Award-winning projects include Acting for the Future, which uses theatre and film  to promote positive mental health and well-being, run in partnership with the Samaritans, and the highly successful Women War and Peace, using theatre and film to promote equality and peace.

Melissa Bori is an Italian-British dancer, dance teacher and Yoga teacher. She has performed extensively in the UK and Europe and has taught dance and Yoga in a variety of different community settings, including to children, young adults with learning difficulties, and older people who are at risk of falling and of social isolation. Melissa originally trained in social sciences (anthropology and law), driven by her passion for social justice. She pursued this passion by working with a number of support organisations, including language support for refugees and emotional support for women who have been through experiences of violence. She turned to dance and movement as a career when she discovered its power to positively impact people’s lives and its potential to bring about personal development and social change. 

I work at Recovery College designing and delivering funded Mindful Photography courses for those affected in some way with mental health issues, the students either have their own personal challenges or have someone in their life who struggles. Photography is a brilliant medium to help us all connect and find meaning. These courses are proving to be very popular and rewarding, the students learn to use their camera in a mindful way which naturally brings about some sense of very much appreciated calm. During the 5 or 6 week course the students bond as a group and often form their own groups to continue with their interest in photography as an anchor.

 I also run photo courses for teenagers who’s work you can be seen on

 https://www.instagram.com/seaseephoto_brighton_/

50% of the participants who attend Seasee have some kind of diagnosed ‘condition’ such as Autism or dyspraxia. 

My personal work is related very much to my processing mental and emotional challenges I have always used creativity as a kind of therapy for self development.