Creative Health Review Creative Responses

Sue Flowers responded to the first theme - Mental Health and Wellbeing across the Life Course

Sue's image evolved from a creative absorption of the content of the Review's first online webinar and Sue's own Lived Experience of supporting family members living with mental ill-health.

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Mah Rana responded to the third theme - Social Care

"To be creative is an existential need; it is important that people can easily access opportunities to be creative in ways that are meaningful to them. Creative health helps to safeguard and stabilise mental health and well-being, and co-creativity can strengthen the relational elements of care through mutually beneficial interpersonal connections".

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Vikki Parker responded to the fifth theme - Education and Training (which included two sessions on Creativity for health and wellbeing in the education system; Creative health - workforce development and wellbeing)

"Education is fundamentally an intimate, individual experience that writes a legacy on the heart, mind, and body, and influences the rest of a person’s life. The system delivers to a collective, often forgetting the whole person, despite attempts to show otherwise. Without the arts we are breeding robots for systems."

In my painting I ask the question ‘if this glorious expansion is not happening within a child at school, then what are doing?'

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Surfing Sofas responded to our seventh theme - Leadership and Strategy - Embedding Creative Health in Integrated Care Systems

Surfing Sofas created a live performance during our roundtable which celebrated Creativity and Wellbeing Week (15th - 21st May 2023). The live performance also responded to the Creativity and Wellbeing Week provocation ‘What is the role of creativity in a health crisis?’.

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