Katherine Taylor

Author: Katherine Taylor

I live in Lancaster and work in Lancaster & Morecambe CAMHS as a senior clinical psychologist, and across Greater Manchester managing the new Arts, Culture and Mental Health programme with GM i-THRIVE, part of the national transformation of children's services. This blog began to help record and share my 2017 Churchill Travelling Fellowship, following a research role at Arts for Health, Manchester Metropolitan University. My work in the field of arts and well-being came about in many converging ways. As a child I was interested in emotional well-being, and worked in mental health research as a graduate. I began clinical psychology training in 2010, and for my thesis studied the role of creativity in bipolar disorder, because of the known links, and partly due to my own experiences of engaging creatively to manage extremes of mood throughout my 20s. I have worked in several university psychology research departments including the Spectrum Centre for Mental Health Research at Lancaster University, notable for its service user involvement, and on the Dementia & Imagination research programme.

by Katherine Taylor March 31, 2017 2

arts and health psychology

Introducing Art Thou Well

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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