Publications

The Amulet is a collaborative arts and health project creatively exploring the issue of pregnancy and infant loss.

‘The Wise Body: Conversations with Experienced Dancers’ written by Artistic Director Fergus Early and choreographer Jacky Lansley of Green Candle Dance, features a set of interviews

Writer-in-Residence with Shands Arts in Medicine, Gail Ellison has published a book of suggestions, ideas, advice, prompts and inspiration for people who want to catalyze writing by patients and staff.

ixia has commissioned and published the following new essays which look at public art in the contexts of health and regeneration:

The Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), Montréal, has announced the launch of a book related to its current exhibition, Imperfect Health: The Medicalization of Architecture, as well as an online TV channel.

An illustrated book by Graham Cooper, equating musical notation with colour theory. This publication offers a series of palettes to artists, designers and musicians.

A 70 page catalogue was published which celebrated the outcomes of the Arts Commissioning Programme at Bristol Royal Hospital for Children (1997-2001) and includes further information and commentary on the project with full colour illustrations of many of the hospital interiors and artworks.

More than 4 million people in England with a long-term physical health condition also have mental health problems, and many of them experience significantly poorer health outcomes and reduced quality of life as a result.

This is the first book published in the UK that brings together a range of key qualitative research studies providing evidence for the assertion that involvement in participatory arts can be specifically beneficial to people with a variety of mental health difficulties.

Including a chapter about the arts and mental health this book offers strategies for maintaining optimism and energy in the face of big challenges.