About

Hello and welcome to Art Thou Well. This site is about the roles of culture and the arts in health, from a psychological perspective.

My name is Kat Taylor and I’m a British clinical psychologist with a research background. Since 2019 I have managed the Arts, Culture & Mental Health Programme across the ten boroughs of Greater Manchester with GM i-THRIVE. I also work directly with families in NHS CAMHS (Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services) in Lancaster and Morecambe.

This blog began to reflect on and share a 2017 WCMT Travelling Fellowship in Finland and the US, on the roles of arts and culture in health care provision.

My research has explored links between arts, health and well-being, in bipolar disorders, dementia, and children’s services. Public engagement forms a key part of this work and from a role at Arts for Health, MMU, collaborated with artists at Carry On Cartoon Camping at Green Man Festival, and co-curated exhibitions on mental health (Urban Psychosis) and dementia (Dementia and Imagination).

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Gallery

front page of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority Creative Care Kit

Creative Care Kits, a number of Greater Manchester organisations led by GMCA worked together to create and distribute 22,000 Kit to young people without access to the internet during lockdown.A second Kity was also delivered in October 2020.

Three Minute Heroes launch

Image fro IG Kultur publication, Austria https://www.igkultur.at/artikel/arts-prescription-new-kind-medicine

Culture Politic International, Dec 2019 Keynote at EU policy workshop in Vienna

GM Arts, Culture and Mental Health feature month

The Winston Churchill Trust's Travelling Fellowship

Exhibition and talks from by Will Self and Profesor Jphn Read John Baldessari – Matthew Buckingham – Sophie Calle – Marc Camille Chaimowicz – Moyra Davey – Luke Fowler – Gillian Wearing – Catherine Yass The modern city has frequently been identified through its intensity – a busy and bustling environment of potentially creative and productive activity. For the spectator, this intensity can also tip over into a state in which reality is temporarily obscured. It is this finely balanced state which the exhibition explores, the condition of urban psychosis is presented as a recurring theme, a shadow which continues to haunt the city. July 2014

http://www.greenman.net/explore/areas/einsteins-garden/

Research Artist Carol Hanson's installation at Green Man: Doris and Ivor's Carry On Cartoon Camping

The Human Library is an international equalities movement that challenges prejudice and discrimination through social contact. It uses the language and mechanism of a library to facilitate respectful conversations that can positively change people’s attitudes and behaviours towards members of our communities who are at risk of exclusion and marginalisation. http://humanlibraryuk.org/

Dementia and Imagination exhibition in conjunction with Chesterfield's famous Crooked Spire

BBC Radio Sheffield

The Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester. Public talk alongside Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit by Margaret Edson, ‘Making Great Art Out Of Illness’.

Workshop space at Nottingham Contemporary

Research Artist Carol Hanson installation at Einstein’s Garden, Green Man festival