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Pod Clare
Creative Practitioners, Healthcare Representative, Educators & Trainers | Location: Mid Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Participatory Art, Painting, Illustration, Installation Art, Sculpture, Mixed Media, Mosaic, Other
25 happy years experience delivering participatory arts projects, large and small, in many art forms with any partners. Longstanding Chairperson of HAUL Arts in Health.
Age Cymru / Gwanwyn
Age Cymru is the largest charity working with and for older people in Wales. Our vision is to create an age friendly Wales. Gwanwyn is a month-long national festival held across Wales in May each year celebrating creativity in older age.
Website | Email | 02920 431576
Aimee Marie Littler
Creative Practitioners | Location: South West Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Painting, Illustration, Mixed Media
Hi I’m an artist based in South Wales (Swansea valley) I have always loved art and nature,so I’ve put the two together! I mainly use watercolour but also coloured pencils, graphite, acrylic and gouache. My main subject is birds as I just adore them!
Aimee Renee
Creative Practitioners | Location: North West Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Painting, Illustration, Mixed Media
I'm a Community Artist/Voluntary Art Grp Coordinator. I have also worked as a creative activities coordinator at Park lodge residential care home. My Art group helps improve peoples lives, health & wellbeing & reduces social isolation. I work alongside Prestatyn Iachs OT & GPs social prescribing network
Website | Email | 07541039703
Aimee's Friday Art Group
Creative Practitioners, Arts Organisation Representative | Location: North West Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Painting, Illustration, Sculpture, Mixed Media
16/01/15 was the first ever Aimee’s Friday art group held at The Artisans Collective in Prestatyn. Our aim is to bring people together, share ideas, techniques, socialise, make arts/crafts, have fun & enhance lives through art.The group is open to anyone regardless of artistic ability or experience
Website | Email | 07541039703
Alex Bowen
Creative Practitioners, Healthcare Representative, Arts Organisation Representative, Educators & Trainers | Location: Mid Wales, South East Wales, South West Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Performance Art, Participatory Art, Painting, Photography, Music, Theatre, Dance, Installation Art, Sculpture, Mixed Media, Audio Video, Spoken Word, Mosaic, Ceramic, Digital, Animation
Strategic development, co-ordination and networking skills combined with a person-centred and proactive approach. Supportive and agile organisational and project manager. Proven track record in financial/ budget management and fundraising, with success in securing a wide range of funding streams.
Website | Email | 07368422907
Alex Staples - Arts Project Manager, Arts for Health and Wellbeing
Healthcare Representative, Arts Organisation Representative, Local Authorities & Public Services | Location: South East Wales
We know the benefits of arts in health, and work to incorporate it into healthcare in Cardiff and the Vale. Using art to improve quality of care and wellbeing for all is key to the evolution of modern healthcare. We offer a holistic approach to our patients, improving their overall outcomes.
Website | Email | 07557671698
Ali Franks
Creative Practitioners, Healthcare Representative, Educators & Trainers | Location: South West Wales
Area of Art: Performance Art, Participatory Art, Theatre, Spoken Word
Lecturer in Applied Drama: Education, Wellbeing, Community at Swansea College of Art, University of Wales Trinity Saint David Applied Drama Practitioner. Specialist in using drama as a tool for personal development and emotional health. Chair of Board of Directors for PeopleSpeakUP
Website | Email | 07951 725912
Alis Poppy Davies
Creative Practitioners | Location: South East Wales
Area of Art: Dance
Current community dance apprentice with Caerphilly Arts Development. Very passionate about improving the health and wellbeing of others in the community
Amanda Griffkin
Creative Practitioners, Arts Organisation Representative | Location: Mid Wales
Area of Art: Participatory Art, Dance
Impelo is a charitable organisation that seeks to share the transformational power of dance as far and wide as possible, connecting people of all ages and ways of life in joyful expression. We believe that movement is key to mental and physical wellbeing, and work in communities and schools.
Andrew Clement
Healthcare Representative | Location: South West Wales
I run the Patient Storytelling programme for the Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust & design and illustrate their educational materials. I am also an amateur musician and painter.
Angela Rogers
Creative Practitioners, Arts Organisation Representative | Location: South West Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Participatory Art, Photography, Illustration, Installation Art, Mixed Media, Audio Video, Ceramic
I am the Wales Coordinator for Engage - Engage Cymru - the leading membership organisation for visual arts and gallery education. I also coordinate WAHWN organising training and networking events pan Wales.
Website | Email | 01834 870121
Angharad Harrop
Creative Practitioners, Educators & Trainers | Location: North East Wales, North West Wales
Area of Art: Music, Theatre, Dance
I have worked as a dance artist and academic for over 10 years. I work in a wide variety of settings across Wales , the UK . I have a great interest in how dance can support people's health and wellbeing and am working towards the completion of my PhD which has a focus on embodiment.
April Heade
Arts Organisation Representative | Location: South East Wales
I am a Producer in the Programmes & Engagement department of Welsh National Opera with a specific focus on our growing arts and health programme.
Arts Connection - Cyswllt Celf
Arts Organisation Representative | Location: North West Wales, Mid Wales
Arts Connection is a participatory arts charity based in Llanfyllin, Mid Wales. We work in North Powys, Wrexham and the border communities. We are revenue funded by the Arts Council of Wales and have provided high quality participatory arts projects in a wide range of artistic mediums since 1994.
Website | Email | 01691648929
ArtWorks Cymru
Arts Organisation Representative | Location: North West Wales, Mid Wales, South East Wales, South West Wales
ArtWorks Cymru is a partnership of Welsh organisations who are developing practice, supporting training and career development, and advocating for participatory arts in Wales. ArtWorks Cymru is project funded and creates programs of work led by different partners to further its aims.
Website | Email | 07966450299
Avant Cymru
Creative Practitioners | Location: South East Wales
Area of Art: Theatre, Dance, Other
Avant Cymru are a forward thinking theatre company from the South Wales Valleys. Creating relevant, distinctive theatre, dance, Hip Hop and artistic activity with and for our community and championing this work at home and afar. Vision Statement: To artistically enrich and inspire all (locally, nat
Website | Email | 07834402953
Avant Cymru
Creative Practitioners, Arts Organisation Representative, Educators & Trainers | Location: South East Wales
Area of Art: Performance Art, Painting, Music, Theatre, Dance, Spoken Word
Avant Cymru are a forward thinking theatre company from the south Wales valleys. We create relevant, distinctive theatre, performances, experiences and educational opportunities many of which are based on improving health and well being.
Website | Email | 07834402953
Ben Walker
Creative Practitioners | Location: North East Wales, North West Wales, Mid Wales
Area of Art: Photography
Full time freelance professional photographer. I have worked with Bangor University & Pontio for over a decade on a wide range of photographic services. Primarily events coverage as well as academic showcase, promotional, documentary & arts coverage, especially with countless & varied Pontio events.
Website | Email | 07912068631
Beth Pickard
Creative Practitioners, Educators & Trainers, Researchers | Location: South East Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Participatory Art, Music
Beth is a music therapist and PhD researcher at the University of South Wales exploring pedagogy of disability. In addition, Beth is also Course Leader for the BA(Hons) in Creative and Therapeutic Arts degree, where visual arts students develop inclusive and participatory practices in the community.
Website | Email | 01443 654429
Bethan Page
Arts Organisation Representative, Educators & Trainers | Location: Mid Wales
As an experienced freelance arts consultant I have devised and managed creative projects with a wide range of communities and diverse sectors. Working in collaboration and in partnership is key to the success of these projects, along with involving participants in every aspect of the work.
Bethan Ryland Pili Pala Arts Wales
Arts Organisation Representative | Location: South East Wales
I am director of Pili Pala Arts Wales, which specialises in delivering high quality arts sessions to all ages, individuals, schools and communities. I am also PhD candidate at Liverpool Hope University, lecture at USW and Newman University and work part -time for Caerphilly arts service.
Beverly Belshaw
Creative Practitioners, Healthcare Representative, Educators & Trainers | Location: North East Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Painting, Mixed Media, Mosaic, Other
I am an artist and art therapist. I work with children and adults alike, using mosaics, silk painting, textiles and mixed media art. I believe my commitment to both professions inform my practice bye creating a balance that is fundamental to the work I do with others.
Bill Taylor-Beales
Creative Practitioners | Location: South East Wales, South West Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Performance Art, Participatory Art, Painting, Photography, Music, Illustration, Installation Art, Sculpture, Mixed Media, Audio Video, Spoken Word, Poetry, Mosaic, Digital, Animation, Other
Creative Practitioner - I am a highly experienced freelance Creative Arts practitioner. I specialise in Film Making, Animation, Visual Mixed Media, Creative Text, Songwriting/Recording, Storytelling, Sculpture, Music and Portraiture.
Website | Email | 07870515984
Bryn Jones
Healthcare Representative, Arts Organisation Representative | Location: Mid Wales
I spent 13 yrs working with the arts in Mental Health in Aberystwyth and over 10 yrs working for the Arts Council of Wales including leading on the Arts and Health strategy development. For the past 10yrs I’ve worked within community development in Penparcau and Aberystwyth securing major funding.
Cai Tomos
Area of Art: Visual Art, Participatory Art, Dance
I am a dance artist and arts psychotherapist.My work centres around participatory practice and facilitating arts and health work with people of all ages in hospitals, care homes and in theatre settings. I work within the field of dance, performance, education, mental health and community arts
Website | Email | 07776137551
CARAD Community Arts Rhayader And District
CARAD, (Community Arts Rhayader And District,) is an independent charity working in the field of arts and heritage. CARAD runs Rhayader Museum and Gallery.
Website | Email | 01597810561
Carol Downes
Creative Practitioners, Arts Organisation Representative, Educators & Trainers | Location: North East Wales, North West Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Participatory Art, Painting, Illustration, Mixed Media, Other
I am a Community Art Tutor and Artist/Crafter/Designer. I enjoy colour and texture in my work, and I love to inspire others to get creative. My specialism is Batiking, mixed up with freestyle stitching and layering. I enjoy working collaboratively, and coming up with the unexpected.
cARTrefu - Age Cymru
Healthcare Representative, Arts Organisation Representative | Location: North East Wales, North West Wales, Mid Wales, South East Wales, South West Wales
cARTrefu is Age Cymru’s flagship arts in care homes project that has been running since 2015, with funding from Baring Foundation and Arts Council Wales. The aim of the project is to improve the provision of creative activity in care homes and develop artist’s skills in running these sessions.
Celf o Gwmpas
Creative Practitioners, Arts Organisation Representative, Educators & Trainers | Location: Mid Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Participatory Art, Painting, Installation Art, Sculpture, Spoken Word, Mosaic, Animation
Our purpose is: 'Creating social inclusion, inspiring artistic ambition & providing a recourse for the wider community'. We: Run arts & health projects for socially excluded groups; support, train & mentor artists, especially outsider & artists w/ disabilities & provide space & network for artists
Website | Email | 01597 822777
Celf-Able
Creative Practitioners, Arts Organisation Representative | Location: Mid Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Participatory Art, Painting, Photography, Mixed Media, Mosaic, Ceramic
Disabled-led inclusive art group in Montgomeryshire.
Website | Email | 01938 810058
Celf-Able
Creative Practitioners, Healthcare Representative, Arts Organisation Representative, Educators & Trainers | Location: Mid Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Participatory Art, Painting, Photography, Installation Art, Mixed Media, Mosaic, Ceramic
Celf-Able is an inclusive art group run by disabled artists in Powys. We are disabled- and artist-led, but open to all ages and abilities, artists and people who just want to have a go at art. We meet in Newtown, Machynlleth, Welshpool, Llanfair Caereinion and Caersws.
Website | Email | 01938 810058
Chris Monk
Creative Practitioners, Educators & Trainers | Location: South East Wales, South West Wales
Area of Art: Performance Art, Theatre
Drama practitioner and educator with experience of working with children from 5 to 18. Passionate about the application of performance to develop communication, creativity, collaboration, confidence and critical thinking.
Christina Michelle Richards
Creative Practitioners, Educators & Trainers | Location: South West Wales
Area of Art: Performance Art, Music, Theatre, Dance
MT Performer turned Creative & Arts Education Specialist Using the Arts to teach resilience in adolescents & improving mental health NQT Drama. Affiliate of ISTD Qualified MHYFA & undertaking MA in Performance Anxiety AD of The Performance Centres where Wellbeing & Creativity is the root of how we train
Christina Thatcher
Creative Practitioners, Educators & Trainers, Researchers | Location: South East Wales
Area of Art: Spoken Word, Poetry, Literature
I am a Creative Writing Lecturer at Cardiff Metropolitan University with research interests in the role of creative writing as a therapeutic intervention. I have led hundreds of writing for wellbeing workshops in schools and communities. I am also a member of the Literature Wales Management Board.
Website | Email | 07754586081
Christopher James Murphy
Creative Practitioners | Location: North East Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Painting
I am a painter specialising in figurative artwork of the male form, keen on finding opportunities to use art and painting to benefit charitable causes. Born in North East Wales and relocated to London I am particularly interested in LGBT issues, mental health and community.
Claire Cressey
Arts Organisation Representative | Location: North East Wales, North West Wales, Mid Wales, South East Wales, South West Wales
Claire has worked in the arts for 20 years, specialising in social exclusion. Currently Director for Live Music Now Wales, Claire was previously Community Producer for WNO, and Assistant Director for Artswork, (youth arts) where she created the English National Youth Arts Network (ENYAN).
Clare Charles
Creative Practitioners, Arts Organisation Representative | Location: South East Wales
I co-run several artist projects including Arcade Campfa, madeinroath and Yellow Back Books, as well as making my own work. In autumn 2019 Arcade Campfa will be working on a new project with Gail Howard and Llandough hospital, resulting in an exhibition across both venues.
Clary Saddler Forget-Me-Not-Productions
Creative Practitioners, Arts Organisation Representative, Educators & Trainers, Researchers | Location: South East Wales
Area of Art: Performance Art, Participatory Art, Music, Theatre, Dance, Mixed Media, Audio Video, Spoken Word, Poetry, Literature, Digital, Animation
Forget-Me-Not-Productions is a reputable, high quality, inclusive arts and assistive technology organisation based in Wales. We develop high quality inclusive arts projects and education & reminiscence workshops across the UK. We specialise in working with people with complex physical disabilities.
Website | Email | 07977383007
Daniel KilBride
Area of Art: Participatory Art, Music, Mixed Media, Other
As well as a traditional musician from Wales, I'm the Director of Trac Cymru, Wales' national development body for our traditional arts. We specialise in growing participation in our songs, dances, tunes and customs for amateurs and professionals working in both English and Cymraeg all over Wales.
David Rhys Webber
Creative Practitioners | Location: South East Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Photography, Music, Digital
I've been working as a photographer for 20 years. In the last ten years I have been working in arts and health settings, delivering workshops to various health boards.
Website | Email | 07752510489
Debra Winstanley
Healthcare Representative | Location: South East Wales, South West Wales
As Information & Signposting Officer at New Horizons Mental Health, I am keen to connect with all who share our aims, to maximise the benefits of good mental health and wellbeing within our communities. New Horizons covers Cwm Taf Morgannwg and offers a range of services, activities and support.
Website | Email | 01685 881113
Dewi Evans
Creative Practitioners, Researchers | Location: South East Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Performance Art, Participatory Art, Theatre, Installation Art, Spoken Word, Poetry
Theatre Practitioner, Artist, and Researcher currently undertaking a PhD in Performances of Mental Illness. My practice-based research PhD is titled 'Autobiographic Performances of Mental Illness: How can Autobiographic Performances Decolonise, Destigmatise, and Devictimise Mental Health'
Website | Email | 07731321313
Eleanor Shaw
Creative Practitioners, Healthcare Representative, Arts Organisation Representative | Location: South West Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Performance Art, Participatory Art, Painting, Photography, Music, Theatre, Dance, Illustration, Installation Art, Sculpture, Mixed Media, Audio Video, Spoken Word, Poetry, Literature, Digital
PeopleSpeakUp is a social arts and well-being enterprise based in The Ffwrnes Fach, Ffwrnes Theatre, Llanelli. We work with communities to find their stories through artistic and personal exploration on speak up projects through visual arts, storytelling, creative writing & The Spoken word.
Website | Email | 07972651920
Emily Underwood-Lee
Researchers | Location: South East Wales
I am Research Fellow at the George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling. My research concerns first person and autobiographical storytelling and performance with a focus on feminist performance, narratives of illness, performance and the maternal and performance and disability.
Emma Baker
Creative Practitioners, Educators & Trainers | Location: South West Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Sculpture, Ceramic
I am a former secondary school art teacher who now runs a ceramics business and works as a freelance practitioner in schools. I am inspired by body positivity and the beautiful Welsh countryside.
Emma Beynon
Creative Practitioners | Location: Mid Wales, South West Wales
Area of Art: Poetry, Digital
Emma leads creative writing workshops for Health and Wellbeing. She has managed projects for Bath Festivals and Peak, with funding from The Paul Hamlyn Foundation and Children In Need. Emma has witnessed the positive impact of creative writing to shape lives and develop confidence.
Emma M Price Co Director at Studio Response
Creative Practitioners, Arts Organisation Representative | Location: North East Wales, North West Wales, Mid Wales, South East Wales, South West Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Performance Art, Participatory Art, Painting, Photography, Music, Theatre, Illustration, Installation Art, Sculpture, Mixed Media, Audio Video, Spoken Word, Poetry, Literature, Digital, Animation, Other
At Studio Response we believe that artists can positively enrich the quality of our public spaces especially in healthcare settings. We curate and commission integrated arts programme that creatively engage with people, place and culture to promote health and well-being in their environment.
Website | Email | 7713150166
Ffotogallery
Arts Organisation Representative | Location: South East Wales
Since its formation in 1978, Ffotogallery has been at the forefront of new developments in photography and lens-based media in Wales and beyond, encouraging public understanding of and deeper engagement with photography and its value to society.
Website | Email | 02920341667
Forget-me-not Chorus
Arts Organisation Representative | Location: South East Wales
The Forget-me-not Chorus is testament to the potential of song, music and shared creativity to enrich and enhance people’s lives. A charity for people with dementia & their families, we have created nine choirs who gather weekly across communities, care homes and hospitals in Cardiff & Newport
Website | Email | 02922362064
Four in Four
Creative Practitioners | Location: South East Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Performance Art, Participatory Art, Photography, Theatre, Dance, Installation Art, Mixed Media, Audio Video, Spoken Word, Literature, Digital
Tamsin Griffiths and Paul Whittaker are cross disciplinary artists with a Mental Health (MH) diagnosis, based in Cardiff. We create participatory interactive projects that blur the boundaries of art-forms and challenge perceptions about MH, through form and content.
Website | Email | 07747414271
Geraldine Hurl
Creative Practitioners | Location: South West Wales
Area of Art: Dance
Geraldine has a 40-year career working as a dance artist practitioner in the fields of professional development/training, community dance and dance education. She has worked for several key dance organisations in Wales and is currently working as a freelance dance specialist in West Wales.
Gill St John Griffiths
Creative Practitioners, Healthcare Representative | Location: South East Wales, South West Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Participatory Art, Sculpture, Mixed Media, Other
Arts and Well Being Creative Practitioner. Initiating and facilitating co-created and co-produced projects. Sharing visual stories, supporting community connection, combating isolation, promoting creative ownership. Mentor - supporting professional Artists and Designers, Startups and Graduates.
Glen Manby
Creative Practitioners, Educators & Trainers | Location: South East Wales
Area of Art: Music
I am an alto saxophonist working mainly in the jazz world. I teach privately, and at Cardiff University.
Website | Email | 07950920549
Guy O'Donnell
National Dance Company Wales creates extraordinary and inclusive dance which engages and resonates with audiences; we work with the best dancers and choreographers from across Wales and the world to make dance for stages large and small, in unusual spaces and online.
Website | Email | 07305534981
Gwawr Wyn Roberts
Local Authorities & Public Services | Location: North West Wales
I work for Gwynedd Council as a Community Arts Development Officer. I am also a registered Art Psychotherapist. I am involved in the development of arts in health within the county by delivering participatory projects, research and training.
Hafren, The Entertainment Venue
Arts Organisation Representative | Location: Mid Wales
We are a mid scale theatre in Newtown, Mid Wales with an active community engagement programme.
Website | Email | 01686614232
HAUL Arts in Health
Healthcare Representative, Arts Organisation Representative, Educators & Trainers | Location: Mid Wales
Long established group using the arts to improve health care settings, and delivering participatory arts projects for hospital staff and all kinds of health groups, including a well received social prescribing programme - see Facebook
Heather Louise Chandler
Creative Practitioners, Healthcare Representative, Arts Organisation Representative | Location: North East Wales, North West Wales, Mid Wales, South East Wales, South West Wales
Live Music Now is the UK’s leading musicians’ development and outreach charity. We provide exceptional live music experiences to people with limited access to the arts, due to disability, illness or social disadvantage.
Website | Email | 02920488654
Heather Parnell
Creative Practitioners, Healthcare Representative | Location: South East Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Other
heatherparnell.wordpress.com Heather is a visual and public artist who has many roles in Arts and Health, including Artist in Residence at Cwm Taf University Health Board.
Helen Hughes
Creative Practitioners | Location: South East Wales
My passion is art and improving people´s well-being. Experienced in facilitating creative art workshops, for diverse audiences, activities range from arts, crafts and movement. I specialize in Participatory Art and Documentation Art, connecting people through art and documenting their experiences.
Helen Ingham
Creative Practitioners, Healthcare Representative | Location: Mid Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Participatory Art
I am an artist, qualified art therapist and art educator/facilitator with 30 years of experience working with people in a variety of creative, community and educational contexts.
heulwen bond
Creative Practitioners, Arts Organisation Representative, Educators & Trainers | Location: South East Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Participatory Art, Painting, Photography, Theatre, Literature
through my design training, have developed in many areas. window display,visual merchandising and interior design. im an avid photographer and have a part time sewingalterations service home based. im very interested in all art and art therapy
Website | Email | 07977462693
Inside Out Cymru
Arts Organisation Representative | Location: South East Wales
Inside Out Cymru is an Arts and Mental Health charity delivering arts workshops and activities across Gwent. We work to break down barriers to opportunities and to encourage access to the arts and creative expression to promote mental health and well-being.
Website | Email | 07588871843
Isabel Passalacqua
Creative Practitioners | Location: South West Wales
Area of Art: Performance Art, Theatre, Mixed Media, Spoken Word, Poetry, Literature
I am a MA drama student looking to further my education specifically regarding the hearts and mental health and well being. I joined this organisation to learn from everyone on here and I am open to anyone’s help and experience.
Jain Boon
Creative Practitioners, Healthcare Representative, Arts Organisation Representative, Educators & Trainers | Location: South East Wales
Area of Art: Participatory Art, Theatre
Jain is an award-winning ACE Aware and Trauma Informed theatre professional with over 30 years’ experience of co-producing theatre and art that places people’s experience of adversity and trauma, centre stage, with the aim of reducing stigma and isolation.
Jane Hall
Creative Practitioners, Healthcare Representative | Location: South East Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Participatory Art, Painting, Other
I am an Art Psychotherapist, qualifying in July 2021 with an MA fro the University of South of Wales. I am looking for employment in any area of metal health, to work with people on an individual basis or with groups.
Website | Email | 07949221525
Jane Mason
Creative Practitioners | Location: Mid Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Participatory Art, Installation Art, Sculpture, Mixed Media
I am a freelance practitioner working sculpturally with found/recycled materials. I have been working as an Art and health facilitator using sculpture, print, paint and drawing since 2016 when I joined the team at Celf o Gwmpas in Llandrindod Wells where I have also developed their Artists Network.
Website | Email | 07833127410
Jess Courtney
Arts Organisation Representative, Local Authorities & Public Services | Location: South East Wales
I am the Visitor Experience Manager for Tredegar House, a National Trust property in SE Wales. Tredegar House is a place shaped by our local community. The house, its surrounding gardens and parkland stand proudly at the heart of Newport’s heritage.
Johan B. Skre
Creative Practitioners, Local Authorities & Public Services | Location: South West Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Photography, Installation Art, Audio Video, Digital
Arts on Prescription Manager and artist Managing HARBWR - the Arts on Prescription programme for Swansea Bay. Working with local partners to deliver a range of proven arts in health projects, we are enhancing wellbeing and reducing social isolation. Experienced art photographer.
Website | Email | 07982644623
Jon Ratigan
Creative Practitioners | Location: South East Wales
Area of Art: Painting, Illustration, Sculpture, Mixed Media, Audio Video, Digital
I work across a variety of media from painting, through 3D to experimental video. I am particularly interested in bringing digital art making possibilities into care settings and in using virtual reality technology to aid reminiscence. I am currently an artist on Age Cymru’s CARTrefu project.
Website | Email | 01446401209
Juliet Barnes - Your Medicines Your Health
Healthcare Representative | Location: North East Wales, North West Wales, Mid Wales, South East Wales, South West Wales
I am the National Co-ordinator for the all-Wales Your Medicines Your Health programme, promoting safe and effective medicines use. Our public information and engagement campaign has incorporated a schools art project and has worked in liaison with students from Cardiff School of Art and Design.
Juliette Salter
Creative Practitioners, Educators & Trainers | Location: South East Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Performance Art, Participatory Art, Painting, Music, Literature, Mosaic, Ceramic
I am a fine artist, voice leader and musician. I teach community arts and crafts for all ages, singing for breathing for the British lung foundation and singing for wellbeing. My background is in complementary health. My own art practice is primarily as a painter in mixed mediums and as a singer.
Website | Email | 07504957717
karen woodley
Healthcare Representative | Location: South East Wales
Hello Im Karen I am a Professional Person Centred, Humanistic Therapist registered and qualified to work with many people who have health and well-being concerns and who would like to explore ways of finding their vital energy and healthy relationship with self and others again.
Website | Email | 07852873857
karen woodley
I am a Person Centred Accredited Therapist and Clinical Supervisor providing Counselling and Movement Psychotherapy to individuals and groups. I also Supervise therapists, social workers and holistic therapists. I believe in human kindness & each persons uniqueness as a creative link into life.
Website | Email | 07852873857
Kate Pawsey
Healthcare Representative | Location: South West Wales
Kate Pawsey has an MSc in creative writing for therapeutic purposes from Metanoia Institute. She works freelance in a range of settings - museums and galleries, with women in sheltered housing, and with the team at Skanda Vale Hospice, West Wales. She is writer in residence at The Bakelite Museum.
Website | Email | 07866684265
Katherine Algar-Skaife
Researchers | Location: North West Wales
I am passionate about improving the quality of life and well-being of people living with dementia and those who support them, and in particular through the arts. Over the last 10 years, most of my research has focussed on the benefits of the arts for those who live in, work in, and visit care homes.
Website | Email | 01248 382226
Katie Keeble
Creative Practitioners, Healthcare Representative | Location: South East Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Participatory Art, Painting, Dance
having recently relocated to Newport Wales, from Bristol I am excited to learn more about the city and artists living and working here, both within health and well-being and creative performance/visual artists too. I look forward to meeting you, do write me an email and hope to see you soon. Katie
Website | Email | 07762624030
Katja Stiller
Healthcare Representative | Location: South West Wales
Katja has been working for Valley and Vale since 1998. Development of Person-Centred Creativity combing humanistic principles with a range of arts activities to improve participants’ self- awareness, self-esteem and wellbeing. Specialises working with people with anxiety /depression and training.
Kira Withers-Jones
Creative Practitioners, Healthcare Representative | Location: South East Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Participatory Art
Kira Withers-Jones
Creative Practitioners, Arts Organisation Representative | Location: South East Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Participatory Art
After many years working as a textile artist and arts facilitator Kira is now Service User Engagement Officer for Inside Out Cymru, a charity that provides creativity for wellbeing sessions in South East Wales. She still teaches and creates her own work on a part-time basis.
Website | Email | 07973539026
Krysha Osullivan
Creative Practitioners | Location: South East Wales
Area of Art: Performance Art, Dance
Trained at Urdang , performed professionally for 14 years . Starting my journey into the arts and well being via creative dance practice. Based in Swansea and looking to collaborate with others in the arts and well being sphere . xxx
Lance Phillips
Creative Practitioners, Arts Organisation Representative, Educators & Trainers | Location: South West Wales
Area of Art: Participatory Art, Photography, Theatre, Mixed Media, Audio Video, Digital
We specialise in immersive digital storytelling with neuro-diverse content creators underpinned by our values of social inclusion, wellbeing, environmental sustainability, and co-creation.
Lara Ward
Creative Practitioners | Location: South East Wales
Area of Art: Performance Art, Participatory Art, Theatre, Dance
I’m a freelance movement artist, a collaborative performer maker, and community practitioner. I’m a performer with The Gravida Project, which centres on inviting pregnant dancers and performance artists to explore their inner and outer creativity, with a focus on maternal mental health.
Website | Email | 07545562524
Lara Ward
Creative Practitioners, Arts Organisation Representative | Location: South East Wales
Area of Art: Dance
I'm an older people's project worker and practitioner for Motion Control Dance, in Barry and across the Vale of Glamorgan. We are currently delivering movement sessions in Care Homes and Day Centres, focused on improving health and well-being and increasing participation levels and mobility.
Website | Email | 07545 562524
Laura Oliver
Creative Practitioners, Arts Organisation Representative | Location: Mid Wales
Area of Art: Theatre
Creative Learning Coordinator at Aberystwyth Arts Centre. 1st class honors BA in Performance Studies from Aberystwyth University LAMDA Tutor
Leah Salter
Healthcare Representative | Location: South East Wales
Systemic psychotherapist working in Bridgend, working with arts in health on projects including: Storytelling for health Writing for wellbeing Not to be forgotten stories (community stories for recovery) Story capture and narrative research Evaluating social prescrbing model Learning communitie
Lee Aspland
Creative Practitioners, Educators & Trainers | Location: South East Wales, South West Wales
Area of Art: Photography
Lee is a mindful photographer and author, who's online courses and books will help you to develop photography skills and support you to live well through difficult times. If life is difficult then Lee’s books and online courses could make a significant contribution to your well-being.
Website | Email | 07952747776
Literature Wales
Arts Organisation Representative | Location: North East Wales, North West Wales, Mid Wales, South East Wales, South West Wales
Literature Wales’ role is to facilitate and stimulate literature programmes and events throughout Wales, and promote the best of our literatures internationally. We also develop and support the writers of Wales at every stage of their literary journey.
Website | Email | 02920 472266
Lora Morgan
Creative Practitioners, Educators & Trainers | Location: North West Wales
Area of Art: Mixed Media, Other
I'm a young community artist based in North West Wales. I love working with the elderly - within community art groups and focusing on mental health/wellbeing. I usually work with textiles and mixed media. I also own a handmade crafts shop in Caernarfon where I run craft for wellbeing workshops.
Lorna Bates
Creative Practitioners, Researchers | Location: North East Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Participatory Art, Painting, Photography, Mixed Media
I have a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Glasgow School of Art, an MA in Art Practice from Glyndwr University and am currently on a PGCE in post compulsory education. Having worked as a caregiver for the elderly, I have realised that I would like to work with the elderly in an arts capacity.
Website | Email | 01978856000
Louise Jensen
Creative Practitioners | Location: South East Wales, South West Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Participatory Art, Illustration, Mixed Media, Poetry
Running arts projects for health and wellbeing within the community, I take inspiration from nature, experimenting with printmaking, watercolour, collage, writing and handmade books. Always excited to explore new processes, nurturing confidence and resilience through working together creatively.
Website | Email | 07503162783
Louise Richards
Arts Organisation Representative | Location: South East Wales
Louise Richards is Community Participation Manager, Literature Wales. Her focus is on social inclusion - working with under-represented and marginalised groups to discover, address and give voice to community concerns through creative writing activity.
Mari Gwent
Creative Practitioners | Location: North East Wales, North West Wales, Mid Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Theatre, Sculpture, Mixed Media
Artist Cymunedol yn canolbwyntio ar hyn o bryd ar Gelf er budd Iechyd a Lles yn y maes iechyd a gofal cymdeithasol. Community Artist currently focusing on Art for Health and Well-being in health and social care.
Maria Hayes
Creative Practitioners, Educators & Trainers, Researchers | Location: North West Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Performance Art, Painting
Dr. Maria Hayes is an award winning artist and artist facilitator. Currently Elysium Healthcare contracts her to create Recovery Tree murals with patients and staff in secure hospitals. She regularly trains and mentors other artists and facilitators, and is passionate about Arts in Health wo
Website | Email | 07817297922
Marion Cheung
Creative Practitioners | Location: South East Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Painting, Illustration, Installation Art, Mixed Media, Audio Video, Digital
I lead arts workshops both online and face to face to engage diverse communities in art-making or 'arting' as I like to call it - to support mental health and disability. I use a combination of print, paint, stitch and electroconductive materials, bringing years of experience into adapting processes to the needs of the participants. Open to collaborations, particularly with Occupational Therapy, Writers/Visual artists, Mental Health charities and Wellbeing Activities Co-ordinators.
Website | Email | 07974083369
Mark Smith
I run an arts and media social enterprise 'Sixty Six / Ninety Nine' that has a primary focus on suicide prevention and awareness. I'm currently working with the Mental Health Foundation and Cwm Taf Morgannwg UHB. (May 2020) I'm the co-founder of the Welsh Mental Health Arts Festival.
Martin Sotelano
Creative Practitioners, Healthcare Representative, Arts Organisation Representative, Educators & Trainers | Location: South East Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Painting, Photography, Dance, Mixed Media, Audio Video, Digital
The Old Post office Art and Therapy Centre was established here in the Welsh Valleys so that Art, Culture and the Healing Arts can be readily available in solid ways that can be created by and given back to the community. Our desire is to create new exciting artistic experiences.
Website | Email | 01495793529
Martine Ormerod
Creative Practitioners, Healthcare Representative | Location: North West Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Participatory Art, Mixed Media
Martine Ormerod is an Art Therapist & Community Artist and has been working as a community art tutor for 30 years specialising in Arts for Wellbeing. Her work includes working in community settings, hospitals and residential care.
Matilda Tonkin Wells
Creative Practitioners, Healthcare Representative, Educators & Trainers | Location: North East Wales, North West Wales, Mid Wales, South East Wales, South West Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Participatory Art, Dance, Poetry
I am a Dance Movement Psychotherapist and Dance Artist based in Wales. I am interested in embodied awareness as a means of enabling connection, creativity and an understanding of interrelatedness. Through integrative creative practices, story telling can take many forms.
Megan Wyatt
Creative Practitioners, Researchers | Location: North East Wales, North West Wales
I am a practicing artist and researcher and I have facilitated and evaluated numerous Arts in Health projects across health, care and community settings. My PhD research investigated how people living with dementia engage with and experience painting whilst working alongside an artist (myself).
Mel Roberts
Creative Practitioners | Location: North West Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Mixed Media, Mosaic
My passion for mosaic began 6 years ago and I love recycling materials and vibrant colours. My business is Mazin Mosaics selling North Wales. As an enthusiastic reative practitioner I have worked with the elderly, local community & art groups, men & women's sheds and learning disabilities adults.
Melanie Antoinette
Healthcare Representative, Educators & Trainers | Location: South East Wales
Area of Art: Audio Video, Spoken Word, Poetry, Other
An authentic & compassionate public speaker. Specialises in numerology reports, poetry through Spirit. Medium, Psychic to preserve good mental health. Lived Adverse Childhood Experiences. Passionate to discover, to recover to validate your true hearts purpose to navigate
Website | Email | 07961613129
Melanie Wotton
Healthcare Representative | Location: South East Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Performance Art, Participatory Art, Painting, Photography, Music, Theatre, Dance, Illustration, Installation Art, Sculpture, Mixed Media, Audio Video, Spoken Word, Poetry, Literature, Mosaic, Ceramic, Digital, Animation
I am an Arts in Health Project Manager and Curator at Cardiff and Vale University Health Board. I worked previously as Exhibitions Coordinator for the Hearth Gallery, UHL, and am responsible for developing community based arts projects across Cardiff and the Vale, supported by Arts Council of Wales.
Website | Email | 07970 070170
Michael Cousin
Creative Practitioners, Healthcare Representative | Location: South East Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Participatory Art, Photography, Illustration, Installation Art, Mixed Media, Audio Video, Literature, Digital
Former curator / artist, now an Art Psychotherapist.
Website | Email | 07852133772
Michele Heidi Sutton
Creative Practitioners | Location: North West Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Participatory Art, Painting, Installation Art, Sculpture, Mixed Media, Other
I am an independent artist/teacher with many years experience working in community arts. I currently teach a variety of creative courses and workshops including: mindful, slow stitching; easy handmade books; pyrography; mono and block printmaking. I also offer a Creative Confidence Coaching service.
Website | Email | 07919952356
Murals for health and wellbeing
Area of Art: Visual Art
We are a community initiative inspired to create murals as social prescribing project
Paul Young
Area of Art: Music
I am a qualified music therapist registered with the HCPC I work with autistic teenagers as a music therapist, and with older people in care home settings I also run two Singing For Lung Health groups in North Wales
Pauline Down
Creative Practitioners, Healthcare Representative, Arts Organisation Representative, Educators & Trainers | Location: South East Wales
Area of Art: Music, Theatre, Other
Pauline Down is a singer & composer who currently leads choirs in South Wales and singing workshops and holidays internationally. She pioneered an award winning arts in health training programme in North Wales and has many years experience of leading arts in health trainings, projects and workshops.
Website | Email | 07952752823
Peak - Art in the Black Mountains
Arts Organisation Representative | Location: Mid Wales, South East Wales
Peak works creatively with professional artists and communities, responding to our unique rural location and environment. Peak's overarching goal is to offer opportunities for children and young people. Our targeted writing and visual arts and health activities support positive health and wellbeing.
Website | Email | 01873811579
Penny Alexander
Creative Practitioners, Healthcare Representative, Educators & Trainers | Location: North East Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Participatory Art, Photography, Installation Art, Literature
I'm a visual artist and use text based mediums such as typewriters to record people's shared stories & memories. Following residencies with participants on acute wards several pieces of my art have been commissioned for hospital corridors. I also am a "phase 2" cARTrefu artist working in care homes
Website | Email | 07923935104
Pip Lewis
Creative Practitioners, Arts Organisation Representative, Educators & Trainers | Location: South West Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Participatory Art, Painting, Photography, Illustration, Installation Art, Sculpture, Mixed Media, Mosaic, Ceramic, Digital, Animation
Pip Lewis is a founder and Director of spacetocreate, a leading Pembrokeshire-based visual arts organisation. Holding a Post-graduate diploma in Art Psychotherapy and BA Hons in Fine Art from Reading University, Pip has taken a lead in delivering a wide range of arts, health and wellbeing projects.
Website | Email | 07879335253
Prue Thimbleby
Creative Practitioners, Healthcare Representative | Location: South West Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Spoken Word
Prue has been leading the Arts in Health Team for Swansea Bay Health Board since 2012. As part of her role she has established an extensive digital patient story programme. Prue is also a freelance Artist and she was a midwife. Her passion is for the people to thrive and have their voices heard.
Website | Email | 07443336090
PuppetSoup
Creative Practitioners, Arts Organisation Representative | Location: North East Wales, North West Wales, Mid Wales, South East Wales, South West Wales
Area of Art: Performance Art, Participatory Art, Theatre, Installation Art, Other
PuppetSoup is a five star multi award winning Wales based theatre company that creates ‘Puppetry. For everyone’. We offer shows and workshops and also run community events and projects. We collaborated with the NHS to make the Award Winning 'Fix Freddie!' and hope to make new partnerships
Website | Email | 07528576068
PuppetSoup
Creative Practitioners, Arts Organisation Representative, Educators & Trainers | Location: North East Wales, North West Wales, Mid Wales, South East Wales, South West Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Performance Art, Participatory Art, Theatre, Installation Art, Mixed Media, Other
PuppetSoup is a five star multi award winning Wales based theatre company that creates ‘Puppetry. For everyone’. We offer shows and workshops and also run community events and projects. We collaborated with the NHS to make the Award Winning 'Fix Freddie!' and are hope to make new partnerships
Website | Email | 07528576068
R. Lyle Skains
Creative Practitioners, Educators & Trainers | Location: North West Wales
Area of Art: Literature, Digital, Other
A Senior Lecturer in Digital Writing at Bangor Uni, Lyle conducts practice-based research in writing, reading/playing, and publishing transmedia narratives. She is PI on the arts & health project "Infectious Storytelling", Co-I on the arts & science project "You & CO2" (both Welsh Crucible-funded).
Rachel Clarke
Creative Practitioners | Location: Mid Wales, South East Wales, South West Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Participatory Art, Photography, Music, Installation Art, Sculpture, Audio Video
I am drawn to issues of wellbeing, self expression and general morale and confidence boosting. My own art practice is predominantly sculpture and photography/short films. I feel extremely fortunate that I have had the opportunity to 'get to know my artistic self' during my degree/MA and would love
Website | Email | 07985 240183
Rachel Jones
Healthcare Representative, Local Authorities & Public Services | Location: North West Wales
I manage Annedd Ni, Anheddau's Day Service based in Bangor, North Wales. We offer sessions such as art, drama, music, cookery and living skills to adults with supporting needs, such as learning disabilities, in the North Wales area.
Rachel Wiles
Area of Art: Participatory Art, Painting, Mixed Media, Poetry
Studying an MA in Arts Practice (arts, health and wellbeing) at Cardiff at USW. I am a contemporary Mixed media landscape Artist (Painter and textile artist). Living in Norfolk and inspired by land, sea and nature. Looking for work experience/voluntary in art, health and wellbeing to help me decide
Radiate Arts CIC
Arts Organisation Representative | Location: Mid Wales
Based at Llyn Clywedog, in the beautiful setting of the Cambrian Mountains, Radiate Arts are passionate about arts and creativity for health and wellbeing. We connect with artists and organisations to offer community arts, health and educational programmes, social prescribing and outdoor arts.
Website | Email | 07860 609991
Ray Hobbs
Creative Practitioners | Location: South West Wales
Area of Art: Photography, Illustration, Mixed Media, Digital
Graduate Documentary Photographer, experienced in respectfully representing communities and individuals in their home and other environments. A body of work on the loneliness & depression of men & their journey into environment of Men’s Shed Cymru. Photo-documented Engage Cymru Dementia workshops.
Robert Aitken
Healthcare Representative, Arts Organisation Representative | Location: North East Wales, North West Wales, Mid Wales, South East Wales, South West Wales
Area of Art: Music
Music in Hospitals & Care is a charity that uses professional musicians to sing and play for people in healthcare, to improve their quality of life
Website | Email | 02920 391415
Roger Seddon
Healthcare Representative | Location: North West Wales
Retired - I used to work for Welsh European Funding Office developing projects under the EU's Territorial Co-operation Programme. My project portfolio concentrated on links to Ireland. I now research social prescribing and recently stepped down from Wales School of Social Prescribing.
Roisin Anwen Murphy-Mortimer
Creative Practitioners, Healthcare Representative | Location: South East Wales, South West Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Performance Art, Participatory Art, Painting, Theatre, Dance, Spoken Word
I'm a graduate of Derby University with a MA in Dance Movement Psychotherapy. I practice psychotherapy using a humanistic and integrative approach using a variety of media. I am also interested in working on projects and within organisations in health care and mental health within therapeutic arts.
Rosemary Elizabeth Graham
Creative Practitioners, Healthcare Representative, Educators & Trainers | Location: South West Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Painting, Poetry, Other
Practising Painter / Textile Artist, Facilitator, Speaker, Life Coach, Life Musician, (assoc: member of Music Chichester University - Life Music, Professor Rod Paton), Yoga Teacher, Published Poet / Writer & Lapidus member. A/H Workshops LAH, SWAH, NW ARTS & HEALTH, ARTS AND HEALTH CYMRU, SPAN, NFS
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Royal College of Psyciatrists Wales
Healthcare Representative | Location: North East Wales, North West Wales, Mid Wales, South East Wales, South West Wales
We have over 600 members, fellows, affiliates and pre-membership trainees throughout Wales. We lead, represent and support psychiatrists to government and other agencies, to improve the outcomes for people with mental illness, and the mental health of individuals, their families, and communities.
Website | Email | 02922331080
ruby maddock
Creative Practitioners, Arts Organisation Representative, Educators & Trainers | Location: South West Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Participatory Art, Mixed Media, Spoken Word
Education and community arts programme coordinator. Currently working for Tate in the community partnerships and regeneration team.
Sarah Argent
Creative Practitioners | Location: South East Wales
Area of Art: Theatre
I am a freelance theatre-maker based in Cardiff - a director, writer, deviser, mentor - specialising in theatre for the very young from babies as young as 3 months. My work recognises and respects the emotional intelligence of even the youngest audience members.
Sarah Pogoda
Creative Practitioners, Researchers | Location: North West Wales
Area of Art: Performance Art, Participatory Art, Theatre, Other
I'm a Lecturer in German Studies at Bangor University, and my research areas explore Artistic Research, Institutional Critique, Avant Garde Performance Art and Theatre. As Artistic Research I pursue interventions, Happenings, and Participatory Performances.
Sharon Magill
Creative Practitioners | Location: South East Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Participatory Art, Photography, Audio Video, Digital
Im a Cardiff based artist exploring themes of isolation, loneliness and solitude and place. I work in various media including video, sound, alternative/photography and create participatory projects inviting others (artists and the public) to collaborate to create shared experiences and artworks.
Sian Fitzgerald
Local Authorities & Public Services | Location: North East Wales
I am the Community Arts Development Officer for Denbighshire County Council and currently sit on the steering committees for WAHWN and the North Wales Arts, Health and Well-being Concordat. I am the NEWales representative for Engage Cymru and Vice Chair for Edau (NW Arts and Education Network).
Website | Email | 07717540857
Sian Rendell
Healthcare Representative, Educators & Trainers | Location: Mid Wales, South East Wales, South West Wales
At Llamau we believe that no young person or vulnerable woman should ever have to experience homelessness. Our mission is to eradicate homelessness for young people and vulnerable women. My role as Involvement and Engagement Manager is to create engaging opportunities for people we support.
Website | Email | 02920239585
Simon and Caroline
Healthcare Representative | Location: South West Wales
We run a support line and website for those who have experienced Spiritual Abuse. We plan to set up a retreat where more intensive support can be given. We hope to be able to provide creative therapies especially within an eco therapy context.
Website | Email | 07709655836
Simone Joslyn
I am head of Arts at ardiff and Vale University Health Board. We are excited to be working in the arts and health arena and are always on the look out ofr new, innovative and fun projects that improve the lives of our patients, staff and communities.
Website | Email | 02921836049
Sophia Keene
Healthcare Representative | Location: North East Wales
I’m Sophia I am a mental health nurse working in older persons psychiatric liaison at Wrexham Maelor hospital. I am also studying for my masters in dementia at Bangor university.
Stephanie Roberts
Arts Organisation Representative, Researchers | Location: South East Wales, South West Wales
I work with the art collections at National Museum Cardiff. Our work around health and wellbeing is close to my heart, especially after experiencing chronic illness myself. Formerly Paintings in Hospitals co-ordinator for south Wales, I am now studying a doctorate in Health Studies at Cardiff.
StillWalks
Creative Practitioners, Healthcare Representative | Location: South West Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Photography, Audio Video
StillWalks is a video resource and system designed to address issues of stress and anxiety and to develop wellbeing. Alastair Duncan, founder of StillWalks, is a visual artist working with sound, photography and tapestry weaving. He has a keen interest in the environment, both natural and man-made.
Website | Email | 07887 906236
Straeon Research Ltd
Researchers | Location: South East Wales
We are social scientists with backgrounds in philosophy, sociology, health & arts. Projects range from qualitative, creative enquiries to systematic reviews and policy evaluation. We value ‘citizen intelligence’ and find ways to enable participants to tell their stories authentically and creative
Website | Email | 07846923660
Sue EL Davies
Creative Practitioners, Arts Organisation Representative, Educators & Trainers | Location: South West Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Performance Art, Participatory Art, Painting, Photography, Music, Theatre, Dance, Illustration, Installation Art, Sculpture, Mixed Media, Audio Video, Spoken Word, Poetry, Literature, Mosaic, Ceramic, Digital, Animation
Highly experienced cultural sector professional. Expertise: creative programming, delivery of events, activities, exhibition development, partnership development and programming, formal learning, lifelong learning, strategic arts management, fundraising, interpretation, project management, evalua
Sue Hunt
Creative Practitioners, Healthcare Representative | Location: South East Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Painting, Photography, Audio Video
A painter and printmaker, I have always had a strong interest in public and social art work. I have taught Fine Art at University and worked on Health projects in Zambia. I currently have an Arts Council grant to help me explore Health and Wellbeing for frontline NHS staff in the time of Covid
Susan Liggett
Creative Practitioners, Researchers | Location: North East Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Participatory Art, Painting, Installation Art, Digital
Susan is a visual artist, researcher and curator. She has organized exhibitions, chaired conferences and published work on the interface of art/science. She is a member of the Royal Cambrian and is Associate Dean for Research at Wrexham Glyndŵr University.
Suzanne Griffiths-Rees
Funders & Policy Makers, Arts Organisation Representative | Location: South West Wales
I am a Development Officer at the Arts Council of Wales with a background in music. I sit on the Arts and Health Programme Development Group within the Arts Council.
Tanya Dower (Music Now)
Creative Practitioners, Healthcare Representative, Arts Organisation Representative | Location: South East Wales
Area of Art: Performance Art, Participatory Art, Music, Installation Art
MUSIC NOW use music and sound as a therapeutic vehicle for exploring creativity to enhance learning, manage health, and live longer happier lives! And we have FUN! Whether individual, group or organisation, we can design and deliver tailor made lessons and sessions with participants of all ages.
Website | Email | 07463580558
Tara H Dean
Creative Practitioners | Location: North East Wales, North West Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Illustration, Mixed Media, Ceramic
Community Artist I deliver experimental workshops. Exploring materials through illustration and printmaking. Inspired by working collaboratively on a ceramic wall mural in 2002.I now adapt screen printing stencil practice to develop, explore and transform ideas with all in the community.
Website | Email | 07919 424066
Thania Acarón
Creative Practitioners, Healthcare Representative, Educators & Trainers, Researchers | Location: South East Wales
Area of Art: Participatory Art, Dance, Other
Dance movement psychotherapist, researcher, lecturer & performer. Works both as an independent practitioner and lecturer at the University of South Wales. Offers international workshops on movement for wellbeing, LGBT+ issues, dance movement psychotherapy & embodied decision-making. @thaniaacaron
Website | Email | 07787034072
The Art of Sustainability
The Art of Sustainability (AoS) is a collaborative Social Enterprise Our mission is to be a creative Forum towards Sustainable thinking through educational events, facilitation and consultation. AoS is based in Tintern, Monmouthshire, Wales
Website | Email | 07733325969
The Stormz Community For Musical Arts
Arts Organisation Representative | Location: South East Wales
Area of Art: Music
Our vision is that through the Power of Music we can create a community that is richly fulfilling for its members. A place where music, friends and memories are made. A Community that builds self-esteem, reduces isolation and has a profoundly positive effect on Wellbeing.
Website | Email | 0330 2290955
Theatrau Sir Gâr / Carmarthenshire Theatres
Arts Organisation Representative, Local Authorities & Public Services | Location: South West Wales
Theatrau Sir Gâr offers the people of Carmarthenshire and beyond a variety of live theatre performances and productions, and a programme of participatory activity which focusses on wellbeing and social inclusion, including dementia friendly events, and creative activities for older people.
Website | Email | 0345 2263510
Together for Change
Healthcare Representative, Funders & Policy Makers, Researchers | Location: South West Wales
TfC is a Pembrokeshire-wide partnership programme and a collaboration between Solva Care, PAVS and PLANED bringing together third- and public-sector organisations to establish a positive legacy from the pandemic, and build on the contribution of community-led action to people’s health & wellbeing.
Tŷ Pawb
Arts Organisation Representative, Local Authorities & Public Services | Location: North East Wales
Tŷ Pawb is a cultural community resource, bringing together arts and markets within the same footprint. We present a contemporary programme of welcoming and inclusive exhibitions, socially engaged projects and live performance.
Website | Email | 01978 292093
Una Shea
Creative Practitioners | Location: South East Wales
Area of Art: Participatory Art, Music
Una Shea is a violinist and community music workshop leader with a passion for inclusion and accessibility in music education. She works freelance as a Suzuki violin teacher for all ages, and has a great love for sharing music.
Vicky Guise
Creative Practitioners, Arts Organisation Representative | Location: South East Wales
Area of Art: Music
Vicky is a music therapist, musician and music teacher based in Cardiff. She is the chair and co-founder of Harmoni Cymru CIC, bringing live music and music therapy to hospitals and care settings in South Wales.
victoria english
Creative Practitioners, Healthcare Representative, Educators & Trainers | Location: South East Wales
I provide bespoke mental health, emotional wellbeing training to fit your organisation and have experience with working with a wide range of organisations. All the training aims to not only provide knowledge, but to empower with the tools to become resilient and maintain wellbeing. '.
Website | Email | 07813169031
Victoria Malcolm
Creative Practitioners | Location: South West Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Painting
Specialisms:painting, drawing and colour use, basic printmaking. Active as voluntary art assistant in Oriel Myrddin Carmarthen and PwerdyPowerhouse Llandysul. Welsh learner moderately fluent. Experience in home education, manager of Popty, Triangle Network international artist workshop in Wales.
Website | Email | 01559395394
Wendy Keay-Bright
Creative Practitioners | Location: South East Wales
Area of Art: Visual Art, Installation Art, Audio Video, Digital, Animation
I am a designer with over two decades of experience in the area of interaction, animation and moving image design, including teaching, research and development, project management, knowledge transfer and public engagement.
Ymchwil OB3 Research
Researchers | Location: South East Wales, South West Wales
OB3 Research is a leading research and evaluation consultancy in Wales, dedicated to quality and impact. Established in 2000, we are a fully bilingual business and provide clients in the public, private and third sector with robust, tailor-made research and analysis.
Yvonne Murphy & Omidaze Productions
Creative Practitioners, Arts Organisation Representative, Educators & Trainers | Location: South East Wales, South West Wales
Area of Art: Performance Art, Participatory Art, Theatre
Yvonne Murphy is a theatre director, creative producer and creative practitioner with nearly 30 years experience of using drama and theatre to create positive social change. An ACW Creative Agent, Yvonne also runs Omidaze Productions which creates bespoke training, workshops, projects & productions.
Website | Email | 07949626538