COLLABORATIONS: Artists & Patients

About

The Arts and Health Hub and the Southbank Centre present their next event focusing on the theme of Collaborations. This event focuses on the complex work of artists working collaboratively with patients to delve into the ways in which the two can work in synergy to present insights into lived experiences of health conditions.

The session includes case studies directly from artists, highlighting some of the complexities of this work, including:

• The challenges that artists face in going beyond just ‘illustrating’ health difficulties;
• The complexity of the relationship between patient and artist: building trust, feeling seen and heard, communicating effectively;
• The responsibility of the artist in telling stories on the behalf and with patients.

There will be time for a Q&A with the presenters, as well as discussion time on the benefits and challenges to this way of working, with time to meet and connect with others at the event.

Contributing Artists: Toby Peach & more to be confirmed.

About Toby Peach

Toby is a Theatre Maker and Artist based in London, who is Associate Director at interactive theatre-makers Coney and Artistic Director of Beyond Arts.  Since 2015, Toby has been developing an exciting methodology, which uses creative practice to connect with, and create stories for, and with, young people who have had cancer. In 2019 he setup Beyond Arts, a CIC that aims to use art to break down taboos about cancer in the UK. Beyond's projects empower young people who’ve experienced cancer to find their own language to communicate their experiences to others and together we evolve the cancer narrative. Toby was on the BBC Performing Arts Fund ‘Ones to Watch’ list in 2015 & completed a BBC Community Theatre Fellowship with The Old Vic.

The Origin of Carmen Power is a free digital adventure for 7-13 years old exploring Carmen’s experience of having a brain tumour at the age of 7 and the Superhero who came out of that experience. It was made with Carmen over three years and is told using her language, her toys and in her own way to share her experience in a way that would be honest and playful for young people to engage with. Originally devised as a live-show, this show pivoted due to the pandemic, and Toby will be reflecting on the process of making work with a 10-year-old, the project landing in Great Ormond Street Hospital and long term participatory projects.

Louise Bourgeois: The Woven Child at the Hayward Gallery

The Southbank Centre can offer a limited number of tickets for a tour of the first major retrospective of this legendary artist to focus exclusively on her work using fabrics and textiles. Bourgeois’s fabric works mine the themes of identity and sexuality, trauma and memory, guilt and reparation that are central to her long and storied career. If you would like to participate in the tour ahead of our event, please select the correct ticket type (which states with tour). Those participating will meet at the Hayward Gallery at 12pm on 9th March. Please note tickets cannot be transferred to an alternative time slot.