Arts & Health Hub Members

Sam Ivin is a photographic artist whose work focuses on social issues and the people connected with them. His pictures attempt to demonstrate the impact situations have on his subjects. By documenting their stories and perspectives he hopes to provide a more personal, tangible understanding of them. He studied Documentary Photography at the University of South Wales, Newport graduating in 2014.

Since then he has been awarded numerous significant photography prizes including the Magnum Photos Graduate Photographers Award, May 2017, The GMC First Prize, Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, March 2017, the Best Graduate Single Image, Runner Up, British Journal of Photography (BJP) Breakthrough Award 2016 and the Winner of Best Single Image, Human Category at Renaissance Photography Prize 2015.

Sara is an artist, playfool alchemist, sacred medicine practitioner, photographer, writer and workshop facilitator, based in London, UK. Her work is multidisciplinary in approach. The content is always reflective of personal experience and processes and often explores intercultural relationships, power dynamics, transformation and the interactions between art and social change, eg. The use of drawing and imagination as healing tools.

Her recent experiential research, explores the relationship between creativity, shamanism/ sacred medicine and (cultural) psychosis.

Sara has exhibited both nationally and internationally in solo and group exhibitions. Recent notable commissions include: 10th Berlin Biennale, Wellcome Collection, Bethlem Gallery, Institute of Inner Vision, London College of Communication, Laure Genillard, Tate Modern, The British Library, Daily Life Ltd and Bromley By Bow Centre, Alexia Goethe Gallery, Artangel, Studio Voltaire, National Maritime Museum, Anxiety Festival, and digital visual dairy project 1000 Happy Days (2014-2017).

I create and run participatory visual arts workshops for people with dementia and for older isolated adults.

Shahina Jaffer is a St Martin’s School of Art graduate currently represented by Gallery 104 New York, with a studio on the Old Kent Road. Her artistic output pivots primarily on perception. Often incorporating weather as both subject and tool alongside her expansive expertise on human behaviours, Shahina’s work combines emotional intuition and empirical observation to encourage and investigate the encounter between artist and observer, resulting in a body of work that is interactive by nature. Her exploration of perception encompasses all natural phenomena, be it corporeal or celestial.

I am visual artist based in Central London. I am fascinated with the viewers perception and interpretation of creative art imagery. This has led me to research imagery created and analysed by psychotherapists. The Ink Blot techniques used by Herman Rorschach have been a theme throughout my current paintings.

After completing a Fine art degree in 1986, through Euston Community Workshops, I took on various roles in the community;  youth and arts worker; art teacher in PRU. 1988, I began to work in more commercial settings and became an in house graphic designer for  Double edge theatre company in Camden and then an illustrator for a publishing house that produced magazines, The Fred and Artrage.

2008 I completed a post graduate qualification in teaching in FE and currently work as a lecturer, teaching Foundation art and design, ICT and English, in institutions such as Tower Hamlets College, HMP Wormwood Scrubs, and Chelmsford College.

I want to be part of an artist community in the Borough of Camden

My name is Silvia Ospina and I am a multidisciplinary artist. I was born in 1985 and grew up in a family of artists between two cities, Bogotá and Barcelona. I have lived in London for 6 years and my creative curiosity has led me to explore many artistic disciplines. Much of my work is autobiographical and Art helps me to understand, relate and connect to the world in a deeper way.

During the past years I have been hosting painting workshops and it has been one of the most rewarding things I\'ve done. Now I\'m looking forward to feel part of a community where I can share ideas and interests with like minded people. 

Simon Bray is a Manchester based artist and creative producer, utilising photography, audio, installation and text to explore the notions of place, identity and loss. His work has been shown at Manchester International Festival, The Whitworth, Southbank Centre, Brighton Photo Biennial, The Guardian, Telegraph Magazine, British Journal of Photography and BBC Breakfast TV.

In 2018, Simon worked with British documentary photographer Martin Parr, as producer for his commission for Manchester Art Gallery. Simon\'s latest project, Loved&Lost, has been seen by over 3 million people worldwide and is currently being exhibited at Weston Park Museum, Sheffield.

I am a painter, print maker and mixed media artist. I make artwork responding to the urban and suburban environment. My aim is to explore overlooked or neglected areas in order to re-see the cities we live in. I am drawn to the form, shape, line and colour in an image, object or visual idea. I explore these formal qualities with rapid sketching, painterly brushwork and experimentation. By teasing out new meaning and ideas I create new images and works of art.    

Sunarni Puji Lestari is an artist from Bali who came to live in Great Yarmouth in 2007. She specialises in charismatic portraiture and bold landscapes and has enjoyed much success in her native country where she gained her Masters Degree of Education in Art.

As a Balinese artist she has had many successful exhibitions and her work is in private collections around the world; Japan, USA, Europe, Canada, Africa, Middle East, New Zealand, Australia, Asia and the United Kingdom.
Born into an artistic family she is a compassionate artist who gives priority to the pleasure and satisfaction in creating paintings. Lestari loves to paint using a variety of mediums; oil, charcoal, pastel, pencil, acrylic and watercolour. In recent years, whilst living in Norfolk, her paintings have captured the unique atmosphere of the Norfolk countryside and Broadland including boats, wildlife, rustic mills, churches and all that she finds captivating.
She is a well respected committee member and was overwhelmed to receive the Chairman’s Award 2011/12 as the artist who had made the most progress.
Since 2013, Lestari has been tutoring life-drawing and, since moving to Lowestoft has also been volunteering at WDAVF (Waveney Domestic Violent & Abuse Forum) at the Kirkley Centre. Previously, at Great Yarmouth, she worked in Day Nurseries and established her own gallery at Albert Square. Lestari loves to work through volunteering and her art has influenced a wide range of people from different backgrounds, cultures, ages and abilities. Indonesian Culture plays a large part in her teaching and she shares her knowledge of crafting, geography, traditional music, dance, games, costumes, language, food and everyday life. From such life-skill experiences Lestari has created “Cinnamon Kitchen” her own small catering business and a café with gallery are in her sights for the future.

I am a dance artist in education and health and wellbeing, working in north Cumbria & Northumberland. A graduate of the royal Academy of Dance, I worked with leading dance company education units, including English National Ballet, London Contemporary’s The Place, The Royal Ballet and Candoco, the UK’s leading dance company of disabled and non disabled dancers.

Since moving north in 2012 after New Zealand  and London respectively, I began to focus on my interest in dance, health & wellbeing.  I was invited to co-manage a Cumbrian wide project in dance for dementia, Dancing Recall, working alongside a neurological physiotherapist.

As associate Artist of Dance Art Foundation, I have helped to introduce the work of London based Dance Art Foundation dance in health programme, Breathing Space to the North.  Breathing Space projects take place on children hospices and most recently, on the Special Care Baby Unit at Cumberland Infirmary working with families.

In partnership with the University of Cumbria faculties of arts and of health, I run About Being, a programme for stroke survivors.  Weekly sessions also take place on the stroke unit at Cumberland Infirmary.  Working interdisciplinary across health and arts is a key component of the programme.

In 2016/17, with G4A funding, I explored the provision of dance in heath in rural locations in north Cumbria.  A part of the project was working at Cumbrian hospitals, including Cumberland Infirmary where I now manage projects for the Trust’s art project, Healing Arts.