Hello! We’re artist Chloe Cooper and composer Jackie Walduck. This year we’ve developed a cross-artform approach inspired by our artistic practices and many years of working together on projects with young artist-musicians with autism through a partnership with Turtle Key Arts, National Portrait Gallery and Wigmore Hall. The closing of galleries and music venues during […]

I’m a writer, poet, former NHS Consultant Physician, Portfolio Medical Educator teaching medical students and Health & Social Care Students in the UK with a passion for Arts in Health and Health Humanities in the education and development of healthcare staff. I also trained on the MA Creative Writing & Personal Development, Sussex University in […]

Hello I’m Emily, a potter and basketmaker from South London and I have been running creative workshops for the community since 2011. I’m going to be honest I have found this year a massive challenge. I have worked closely with certain hospitals and elderly care homes for a number of years and feel very attached […]

Since I started Create 18 years ago at my dining room table, the last year has probably been the most demanding and rewarding. I dreamt then of a society in which every vulnerable child and adult would have access to the power of creativity in their lives. I was motivated by my longing for a […]

I have been running art sessions with care home residents since 2016. I found that many older people lack confidence when it comes to painting, saying they were never any good at it. To overcome this reluctance, I started making collages, to which each person could contribute a single element like a flower or butterfly. […]

I’m Kate Steel Jardel from Write Mind. As a child I would sit and watch my mum, a school secretary, while she typed, wide-eyed with fascination at the blank pages being transformed right in front of me. Fast forward through a life woven with words, and post-graduate study of Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes, and […]