Friday, 4 October 2024

artED at ReCoCo: Creating Your Own Recovery Journey – Is that even possible?

Thanks to everyone who were involved in the artED event at ReCoCo on Tuesday evening. I was honoured to have such an impressive panel and it was great to have such a mixed and engaged audience who posed some really thoughtful questions.


For those who did not attend, here is a summary:

Grainne Sweeney gave a short introduction to artED, the event and introduced the panel: Alisdair Cameron (Co-Director ReCoCo), Claire Murphy-Morgan (Senior Research Assistant, RHED-C), Anne Fry (CEO, Eating Distress North East) and Fiona Granger (NHS Specialist Nurse in ED).  

I lead a brief mindfulness exercise and handed over to my good friend and writer Barbara who read, Write-off day, a piece of my writing from The Thing Part 1. 


I then posed the following question to the panel

If we lived in an ideal world and you could make any intervention or changes within the system, what would you do?

We then addressed this and shared our collective experience to imagine ways in which the NHS and community health services can empower individuals to create their own personal recovery plans.


The event concluded with a stimulating question and answer session with questions from the floor.

Monday, 30 September 2024

New home for daily diaries - www.arted.online

Over the past few months I have been developing an online archive of all my diaries from March 2020 to present day. 

This can now be viewed at https://arted.online/blog/diaries/

From now on, every day I will be updating the diaries on the artED website, hopefully providing a better viewing experience for people interested in my diaries.

All the diaries that were posted on this blog are included in the artED diary archive.

I hope you continue to engage in the diaries and enjoy the other features on the artED website.



Friday, 13 September 2024

Thursday 12th September 2024

 


Installing Diaries in Open Open at The NewBridge Project

Today I had the pleasure of installing a work in the Open Open exhibition at The NewBridge Project, Newcastle upon Tyne.

Thanks to Dan and Eve for making it such an enjoyable process, and to Grace for taking the photo!



THE NEWBRIDGE ‘OPEN’ OPEN is more than just an exhibition—it is a process that centres on people rather than objects. It hopes to reflect the overlapping relationships and connections that make up The NewBridge Project. The exhibition will feature work by NewBridge Project members; studio members, hot-deskers, associates, Collective Studio & Create/Disrupt members and anyone who takes part in regular NewBridge groups such as Code Club & Youth Programme.


The opening of the ‘OPEN’ OPEN is on Friday 20 September, 5 – 8pm. The exhibition then continues until 9 November 2024. Opening times: Wednesdays: 1-5pm, Thursdays, Friday and Saturday: 12-5pm

THE NEWBRIDGE ‘OPEN’ OPEN marks the launch of a new programme developed by The NewBridge Programme Committee Members: Holly Argent, Ellie Armon Azoulay, Dan Goodman, Kaan K, Shelly Knotts, and Seymour Mace.

Wednesday, 28 August 2024

Tuesday 27th August 2024



artED on the radio

If you missed the live broadcast of me talking about all things artED, eating distress, autism and OCD with Anna Foster this morning on BBC Radio Newcastle, here is the link to listen now 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0jm2x4