website design Lois Blackburn, admin@loisblackburn.co.uk copy Philip Davenport
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arthur+martha Community Interest Company, is an artist-led project working with older people in healthcare to make poetry and art, with emphasis on the experimental. The UK-based project is interested in crossovers between text and art, interleaving conversation with verse, in the power of frailty. A research element of the project connects it to Manchester Metropolitan University – this research will help formulate future national arts and health policy.
Personnel:
Lois Blackburn, Lead Artist. Philip Davenport, Lead Writer. Rebecca Guest, Shadow Artist. Ann Wynne, volunteer.
Artists: Marlhill Court
Jack Ball, Elsie Bryant, Pauline Eaton, Edith Joyce, Hilda Hewitt, Betty Humphreys, Tom Garner, Bob Mather, Catherine McCabe, Ivy Roche, D'reen Ryan, Renie Venus, Beaty and Harry Wantling, Mary Wheelan.
Cherry Tree Hospital, Ward 2 and 5
We hope to work with many patients at Cherry Tree Hospital during their stay
Our Approach:
• To experiment and encourage creative choice
• give participants the confidence and skills to make art
• respect everyone as individuals
• facilitate a safe creative space in workshops
• positively share experiences, giving people a chance to voice their
stories
• encourage successful aging and learning for old and young alike
• bring a professional and responsible ethos to the project.
Artists Philip Davenport and Lois Blackburn have a combined 14 years of specialist workshops skills working with older people in hospital and community settings. Rebecca Guest has recently completed a year as Shadow Artist for Stockport Arts & Health, working in hospitals with older people. All three artists have worked for the acclaimed Reminiscence Arts Project, whose work has been exhibited throughout the North West and in the Houses of Parliament.
