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South London and Maudsley

My ongoing project, Making Room, is based at the Maudsley Hospital, working alongside service users to develop and research progressive ways that art practice and mental health care services can intersect.

Coborn Centre for Adolescent Mental Health

In 2023 I initiated a new Art and Wellbeing partnership between Foundling and The Coborn Centre for Adolescent Mental Health, which I then delivered to young people from January to March and October to November 2024. In the first project, at the end of each session we stood around a new section of blank calico to collaboratively fill it before rolling it back up. The full length of fabric was then unveiled at the end of the project as a record of the weeks we had spent together. In the latter project we used the wall outside the studio, to reflect onto, each week painting with a new colour, slowly building a collective image that marked this passing of time. Both the wall painting and fabric work are now on permanent display at the centre. An accompanying resource that includes some of the work made during the project as well as a new set of propositions was designed by Modern Activity and distributed throughout The Coborn Centre as an invitation for new service users to explore.

Week by week, up in the air; the things that people left (detail)
Wall Painting
On permanent display at The Coborn Centre for Adolescent Mental Health

Resist (workshop detail)
Fabric work
On permanent display at The Coborn Centre for Adolescent Mental Health

Mind in Camden

Over two months in 2024, I worked with Mind in Camden participants leading a series of Arts and Wellbeing workshops at the Foundling Museum. Together we explored embroidery and weaving techniques inspired by The Mother and the Weaver exhibition. Throughout the weekly sessions, the group contemplated concepts of the unseen mother, maternal love, positive and negative space, absence and presence through acts of writing, cutting, weaving and repairing. The final exhibition, Filling Gaps, displayed the textile works from the group at the museum from 13 March- 14 April 2024. At the end of the project, a poster was designed by Modern Activity and then distributed to Mind Centres across London as well as the group participants as a legacy of the project.

Workshop detail,
Foundling Museum

Filling Gaps 2024
Poster

The Bridge and Southwark Women’s Space

Drawing Act I worked alongside women from The Bridge and Southwark Women’s Space -two spaces that support the mental health and wellbeing of local women. Based within The Drawing Room library, the group explored themes around exhaustion, labour and faith through film and textiles. The final batik quilt made in collaboration with Angela Gioffre, Annie Birch, Bianca Aziz, Patricia Paula Simon, Silvie Livett, Sonia Foster and Zainab Yusuff is now on permanent display at The Bridge.

Workshop detail,
Drawing Room Library

Workshop detail,
Drawing Room Library

Workshop detail,
Drawing Room Library

As an outcome of the project at The Drawing Room, this collaborative publication was made alongside Angela Gioffre, Annie Birch, Bianca Aziz, Patricia Paula Simon, Silvie Livett, Sonia Foster and Zainab Yusuff. The publication which spins around to reveal the underneath patterns through the bodies of the participants, is now part of the Drawing Room Library archive.