Artists

Channel 4 is broadcasting six episodes of a new show featuring Grayson Perry on a mission to unleash our collective creativity and unite the nation through art. Every week Perry will host the show from his studio, create new artworks and will feature other works. Each week will feature a certain theme. Further information and submission details can be found here. 

Daniel Regan of the Arts & Health Hub has created a free space to support artists to connect and share creative ideas during the coronavirus outbreak.

Learn more about the collaborative resource and sign up here.

64 Million Artists are running daily creative challenges to bring people together virtually during the coronavirus outbreak.

The challenges can be used with friends, family, in school or community groups, or for workmates working from home.

The challenges aim to promote sticking together, having some fun, and creating to connect.

Sign up here. 

Visual literacy charity The Big Draw has announced that its annual festival of creativity will be based around the theme Climate of Change and will be called The Big Green Draw Festival. Marking its 20th anniversary, the festival will focus on the relationship between people and our living environments and ecosystems; highlighting how we live today and the ways in which we do and do not harmonise with nature.

This exhibition showcases a selection of recent works by artists who attend Headway Milton Keynes, a charity supporting adults who have an acquired brain injury. It demonstrates a range of both individual and collaborative practices and gives a platform to a diverse group of artists.

The Free Space Project invites you to join them at the opening of their latest exhibition from visual artist and photographer Suzie Larke. This exhibition showcases her conceptual photography exploring mental health experiences. Suzie uses constructed imagery, digitally stitching photographs together in such a way that they present as a single, untampered image. The private view takes place on 19 March, 6.30–8.30pm.

Sign up for the private view here. 

January 2020 marks a year of being in the role of Director for London Arts in Health. New Year is always a good time to reflect and look forward and so I thought I would round up some of what I have learnt a year in as well as what I am looking forward to.

King’s College London and UCL have launched the world’s largest ever study into the impact and scalability of arts interventions on physical and mental health

What is it like to receive or donate an organ? How do disease and transplantation affect daily life?