As part of the National Centre for Creative Health (NCCH) and All-Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing (APPG) Creative Health Review, the Review has commissioned a range of artists with their own lived experience to respond creatively to each of the Review's roundtable themes.
"After a career in music, education and creative health, I find myself offering a very different perspective: in December 2020 my husband died. Ever since I’ve been going through a process of reprioritising ... instead of spending my time enabling others to do creative things, I now find great comfort in also exploring my own creativity. More needs to be done to guarantee an equitable offer for anyone that needs it. Bereavement is a very lonely space – we need to support people better at this incredibly vulnerable time and creativity has a vitally important role to play in this"