Art

 

In this ‘identity’ project, we ran a series of workshops exploring different aspects of identity through sculpture, collage, and graphic novel. At the end of each workshop, we gave each group participant the option of sharing their piece with the group and describing both the meaning of the piece and their experience of the creative process.

Croissant customers with busy faces and skinny latte voices, pourin over choices.. all the noise is darling and delightful – a welcome distraction from the frightful girl who’s sat, on the wrong side of that chair, pursed lips n’ a long downward glare.

This piece is called ‘After struggle, follows happiness’. It’s about the potential transformative power of altered states and was created using ink and bleach.

I have been reading online articles about mental health in general and sometimes commenting on them and getting involved in discussions.  This type of...