projects
arthur+martha combine passion for artistic exploration with projects that have positive health and social outcomes. We are the leading innovators of art/poetry in the UK arts and health field. We help ordinary voices to be heard in places of privilege – art spaces, billboards, libraries, news media, books and websites.

‘…we say things here with you that would’ve stayed unspoken…’ (Participant, Cherry Tree Hospital, Stockport)

PATIENCE

Patience is a project with hospital patients, staff and visitors, creating an insider’s guide to illness using poetic language and artworks. Patients used it to share their experiences of living with ill health. for more information, please visitt LINK

KINDNESS

arthur+martha are currently working on the project Kindness, working with older Jewish people, exploring ideas of the Holocaust, displacement and what it means to have a refugee background. Together we marked Holocaust Memorial Day with an art event 'bring light towards you' shown at Picciadilly Train Station. For more information see LINK.

OTHER PROJECTS

a walk
2008 a walk: making poems/text works and sculptural and soundworks sited along walks, or in reaction to walking through the world. Elements of this included working with young people from Riverside School in Radcliffe, North Manchester in the Irwell Sculpture Trail (see arthur-and-martha.blogspot.com and www.flickr.com) and an artistic/community collaboration with High Peak Community Arts and residents of New Mills, culminating in live displays and performances (see arthur-and-martha.blogspot.com and www.flickr.com) click to find out more

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.