Dance artist and choreographer Helga Deasy was awarded an artsandhealth.ie artist bursary in 2020 to reflect on and interrogate her model for an empowering dance practice, specifically its applicability to her experience of working as a dancer in hospitals and care homes. Helga’s philosophy and participatory approach are captured in this short publication.

Author:
Helga Deasy

Publisher:
artsandhealth.ie

Year:
2021

Context:
Arts and health, Older people

Artform:
Dance

Public Health Panorama is a peer-reviewed, bilingual (English–Russian), open-access journal published by the WHO Regional Office for Europe. This special issue on arts and health (Volume 6, Issue 1, March 2020) includes a technical editorial, 'Arts and health: building on the evidence to create sustainable policies and practices'; original research from Ireland, 'An assessment of the scope and nature of arts and health practice in Ireland'; and a report from Wales, 'A healthy heritage: the importance of culture in a sustainable Wales'.

Publisher:
WHO Regional Office for Europe

Year:
2020

Context:
Arts and health

Mary Grehan reflects on the challenge of maintaining an artistic practice while pursuing a career as an arts manager in healthcare.

Author:
Mary Grehan

Publisher:
Irish Journal of Arts Management and Cultural Policy

Year:
2020

Context:
Artist, Arts and health, culture

This report uncovers findings from a curated online conversation in September 2020 exploring the evaluation of creative activities for arts, health and wellbeing delivered remotely or online during COVID-19. The conversation was hosted by UK organisations Creative and Credible, Willis Newson, Arts and Health South West and the Culture Health and Wellbeing Alliance, in association with Professor Norma Daykin and Dr Karen Gray.

Author:
Jane Willis, Karen Gray

Publisher:
Willis Newson

Year:
2020

Context:
Arts and health, Evaluation

An editorial outlining current research in the area of arts and dementia featured in a special issue of 'Dementia' dedicated to the Arts and Dementia.

Author:
Hannah Zeilig, Paul M. Camic, Sebastian Crutch

Publisher:
Dementia: The International Journal of Social Research and Practice

Year:
2018

Context:
dementia

Pat Cooke's paper from the inaugural Arts and Health Check Up Check In which took place in January 2016. The event was a collaboration between artsandhealth.ie, Create and The LAB Gallery in Foley Street Dublin and was designed to promote solidarity among arts and health practitioners in Ireland.

Author:
Pat Cooke

Year:
2016

Context:
Arts and health

Artform:
Various

As part of the 1916 East Rising commemorations in Ireland, Clive Parkinson was invited to share the development and context to the Manifesto for Arts & Health at the inaugural Arts and Health Check Up Check In event. This is a transcript of his presentation.

Author:
Clive Parkinson

Year:
2016

Context:
Arts and health

Artform:
Various

This position paper presents a new paradigm about the intrinsic structure and nature of arts and health practice. This paradigm is based on a variety of research experiences over twenty years working as a music therapist, musician, music and health practitioner, researcher and director of an arts and health programme in university teaching hospitals, community contexts, and non-governmental organizations in Ireland and the UK.

Author:
Hilary Moss

Publisher:
Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy

Year:
2016

Context:
Arts and health

Artform:
Various

Denis Roche reflects on this socially engaged project made in collaboration with Brian Maguire, Emma Finucane and people using the mental health services in Co. Carlow (2011-2013). First published in the July / August 2015 edition of the Visual Artists News Sheet www.visualartists.ie

Author:
Denis Roche

Publisher:
Visual Artists Ireland

Year:
2015

Context:
Mental Health

Artform:
Collaborative practice, Visual Art

For Create News: 16 Rosie Goan reflects on the growing international trend towards the presentation of projects rooted in arts and health practice at festivals.

Author:
Rosie Goan

Publisher:
Create

Year:
2014

Context:
Festivals

Artform:
Collaborative practice

A peer reviewed perspective on aesthetic deprivation in clinical settings

Author:
Des O’Neill, Hilary Moss

Publisher:
The Lancet

Year:
2014

Context:
Acute Hospital

Artform:
Various

Reflections on the Creating a New Old Conference, Dublin, May 2012

Author:
Mary Grehan

Year:
2012

This text is from a talk given by Mary Ruth Walsh at the opening of the Body Conscious exhibition at Waterford Regional Hospital in June 2012.

Author:
Mary Ruth Walsh

Year:
2012

Context:
Acute Hospital, Exhibition

Artform:
Visual Art

This text is from a talk given by writer Grace Wells at the opening of The Quiet Heart exhibition at Waterford Regional Hospital in September 2012.

Author:
Grace Wells

Publisher:
Waterford Healing Arts Trust

Year:
2012

Context:
Acute Hospital, Artist, Exhibition

Artform:
Visual Art

An artist’s perspective on arts and health.

Author:
Marie Brett

Year:
2011

Artform:
Visual Art

Comparing the role of an arts therapist to the role of an artist working in an arts and health context.

Author:
Ed Kuczaj, John McHarg, Marie Brett

Year:
2011

Context:
Art Therapy, Artist

Artform:
Visual Art

Reflections of understandings of arts practices in healthcare contexts

Author:
Sheelagh Broderick

Publisher:
Policy and Practice. Routledge.

Year:
2011

A discussion on contemporary arts engagement with the healthcare sector which considers some critical frameworks for arts and health practice. First published via Visual Artists Ireland

Author:
Sheelagh Broderick

Publisher:
Visual Artists Ireland

Year:
2011

Artform:
Visual Art

Experimental address to the issue of organ transplantation.

Author:
Tina Kinsella

Year:
2011

Context:
Organ Transplantation

Artform:
Visual Art

A review of the film The King's Speech with reference to Medical Humanities.

Author:
Hilary Moss

Publisher:
Arts & Health: An International Journal for Research

Year:
2011

Context:
Medical Humanities

Artform:
Film

Claire Meaney talks to Emily Robyn Archer about the Post Room Project at Waterford Regional Hospital. First published via Visual Artists Ireland

Author:
Claire Meaney, Emily Robyn Archer

Publisher:
Visual Artists Ireland

Year:
2010

Context:
Acute Hospital

Artform:
Visual Art

Research focusing on hospital based arts co-ordinators and their views on the challenges posed by their work

Author:
Josie Aston

Year:
2009

Context:
Professional Development

A series of opinion pieces about arts and health commissioned as part of the Vital Signs conference in Dublin, 2009

Author:
Emmett Scanlon and Mary McAuliffe

Publisher:
The Arts Council

Year:
2009

Artform:
Various

An essay supporting the Vital Signs exhibition as part of the Vital Signs conference in Dublin, 2009

Author:
Cliodhna Shaffrey

Publisher:
The Arts Council

Year:
2009

Artform:
Various

A structured reflection on the author's experiences of both music therapy and the arts and health work within healthcare services.

Author:
Hilary Moss

Publisher:
British Medical Journal

Year:
2008

Artform:
Music

A conference paper considering varying approaches to curating contemporary art in acute hospitals

Author:
Mary Grehan

Year:
2008

Context:
Acute Hospital

Artform:
Visual Art

An article based on conversations between mentor Anne Woodworth and musician/ mentee Kevin O'Shanahan

Author:
Kevin O’ Shanahan

Year:
2008

Context:
Mental Health

Artform:
Music

The Museum of Song Postal Project is a song collecting project by artists Tess Leak and Sharon Whooley. Part of the Arts for Health Partnership Programme, West Cork, it was adapted in response to the isolation of older residents in community hospitals during the Covid-19 lockdown in April 2020. Over the course of spring and summer, the artists sent packages full of poetry and song to participants. The Songbook, designed by Sharon Whooley, includes thematic lists of the 160 songs collected from the community hospitals along with reproductions of the visuals sent out during the project.

Author:
Sharon Whooley, Tess Leak

Publisher:
Arts for Health Partnership West Cork

Year:
2020

Context:
Older people

Artform:
Literature, Music

Menu of Poems is an annual initiative in celebration of Poetry Day Ireland. The poems are distributed throughout hospitals and healthcare settings in Ireland. The poetry is a selection from the Poems for Patience series in Galway University Hospitals, edited in 2019 by poet Ailbhe Darcy.

Author:
Edited by Ailbhe Darcy

Publisher:
Arts & Health Co-ordinators Ireland, Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust

Year:
2019

Context:
Acute Hospital, Community Health, Mental Health, Older people

Artform:
Literature

In celebration of Poetry Day Ireland 2018, 'Encounters' was distributed throughout hospitals and healthcare settings in Ireland as part of the annual 'Menu of Poems' initiative. The poetry is a selection from the Poems for Patience series in Galway University Hospitals, edited by poet Michael Coady.

Author:
Edited by Michael Coady

Publisher:
Arts & Health Co-ordinators Ireland, Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust

Year:
2018

Context:
Acute Hospital, Community Health, Mental Health, Older people

Artform:
Literature

A reflective review of the TODAY photography project in St Finbarr’s Hospital Campus in Cork City by artist Colette Lewis.

Author:
Colette Lewis

Year:
2017

Context:
Arts and health, Socially engaged practice

Artform:
Photography

This report explores Ciara Harrison's work as 2017 Artist in Residence with Waterford Healing Arts Trust. Ciara Harrison specialises in textiles and collaborated with patients one on one by the bedside. She also led a participatory arts project with hospital staff, community groups and a local school, in which fabric flowers were made and displayed in the hospital foyer and gifted to the patients of UHW.

Author:
Ciara Harrison

Publisher:
Waterford Healing Arts Trust

Year:
2017

Context:
Acute Hospital

Artform:
Participatory arts, Visual Art

In celebration of Poetry Day Ireland (28 April 2016), Soul Food is intended for distribution throughout hospitals and healthcare settings in Ireland. The poetry is a selection from the Poems for Patience series in Galway University Hospitals and is edited by Colette Bryce.

Author:
Edited by Colette Bryce

Publisher:
Arts & Health Co-ordinators Ireland, Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust

Year:
2016

Context:
Acute Hospital, Community Health, Mental Health, Older people

Artform:
Literature

This report explores Caroline Schofield's work as 2016 Artist in Residence with Waterford Healing Arts Trust. Caroline, whose background is in craft and textiles, collaborated with dementia patients in Medical 5.

Author:
Caroline Schofield

Publisher:
Waterford Healing Arts Trust

Year:
2016

Context:
Acute Hospital, People with dementia

Artform:
Participatory arts, Visual Art

In celebration of Poetry Day Ireland (7 May 2015), Flow is intended for distribution throughout hospitals and healthcare settings in Ireland. The poetry is a selection from the Poems for Patience series in Galway University Hospitals and is edited by Naomi Shihab Nye.

Author:
Edited by Naomi Shihab Nye

Publisher:
Arts & Health Co-ordinators Ireland, Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust

Year:
2015

Context:
Acute Hospital, Community Health, Mental Health, Older people

Artform:
Poetry

A report on the National Centre for Arts & Health's work in 2013

Author:
National Centre for Arts & Health

Publisher:
National Centre for Arts & Health

Year:
2014

Context:
Acute Hospital

Artform:
Various

This Menu of Poems, on the theme of ‘taking flight’ is intended for distribution throughout a range of healthcare settings in Ireland in 2014. Co-ordinated by the Arts & wellbeing Specialist in Kildare.

Author:
Edited by Kate Dempsey

Publisher:
Arts & Health Co-ordinators Ireland, Kildare Arts Service

Year:
2014

Context:
Acute Hospital, Community Health, Mental Health, Older people

Artform:
Poetry

A witness account of a public discussion on ‘Anamnesis’, an exhibition of new works by artist Marie Brett in The Index Gallery at the Waterford Central Library in April 2013. ‘Anamnesis’ was itself the result of ‘The Amulet Project’, a collaboration between the artist and bereaved parents.

Author:
Rebecca Moran

Publisher:
Waterford Healing Arts Trust

Year:
2013

Context:
Maternity

Artform:
Visual Art

This Menu of Poems on the theme of ‘gathering places’is intended for distribution throughout a range of healthcare settings in Ireland in 2013.

Publisher:
Arts & Health Co-ordinators Ireland

Year:
2013

Context:
Acute Hospital, Community Health, Mental Health, Older people

Artform:
Poetry

A midway status report of artist Jeffrey Gormly's six month residency at Waterford Regional Hospital

Author:
Jeffrey Gormly

Year:
2013

Context:
Acute Hospital

Artform:
Various

This resource pack covers a broad spectrum of documentation and is the result of a professional devlepment training day held in Waterford, April 2012

Publisher:
Create, Visual Artists Ireland, Waterford Healing Arts Trust

Year:
2012

Context:
Continuous Professional Development Training

Artform:
Various

A snapshot of an arts and health Partnership told from all perspectives.

Author:
Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, Health Service Executive Health Promotion Service Dublin South East/Wicklow

Publisher:
Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, Health Service Executive Health Promotion Service Dublin South East/Wicklow

Year:
2012

Context:
Older people

Artform:
Various

Memories, stories and poems by patients and staff from the Dialysis Unit, Waterford Regional Hospital created through the arts programme of the Waterford Healing Arts Trust

Author:
Waterford Healing Arts Trust

Publisher:
Waterford Healing Arts Trust

Year:
2012

Context:
Renal Dialysis

Artform:
Creative Writing, Visual Art

This document is Susanne Burn's presentation from Evaluating Arts + Health Collaborative Practice which was a continuous professional development training day led by Susanne Burns and co-hosted by the Waterford Healing Arts Trust and Create. It took place in Trinity College, Dublin in October 2012.

Author:
Susanne Burns

Publisher:
Create, Waterford Healing Arts Trust

Year:
2012

Context:
Continuous Professional Development Training, Evaluation

Artform:
Various

Documentation from the Arts - Health - Entrepreneurship? conference, including presentations from Mary Grehan, Jenny Elliott and Nicola Dunne and Catherine O'Grady. This conference took place in Helsinki in October 2012.

Author:
Pia Strandman (Ed.)

Publisher:
Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences

Year:
2012

Spears of Daylight contempory arts exhibition, inspired by the creative writing of service users at St. Patrick's Hospital. The documentation also includes the poems, short stories, songs & aphorisms that were visually interpreted and essays from the project partners.

Author:
St Patrick’s University Hospital

Publisher:
St Patrick’s University Hospital

Year:
2012

Context:
Mental Health

Artform:
Creative Writing, Visual Art

A report on WHAT's work in 2012

Author:
Waterford Healing Arts Trust

Publisher:
Waterford Healing Arts Trust

Year:
2012

Context:
Acute Hospital

Artform:
Various

An artist's account of the National | Dialogue Arts + Health event

Author:
Sheelagh Broderick

Year:
2011

An artist's account of the National | Dialogue Arts + Health event

Author:
Sarah Searson

Year:
2011

This document encapsulates the beneficial impacts of Turku 2011 Capital of Culture for individuals and communities.

Author:
Jukka Saukkolin

Publisher:
Turku Abo 2011

Year:
2011

Documentation of the National | Dialogue Arts + Health event

Author:
Sarah Searson

Year:
2011

A short anthology of poetry that was distributed through a range of hospitals and day centres in Ireland in 2011

Author:
Edited by Mark Roper

Year:
2011

Artform:
Poetry

A report on WHAT's work in 2011

Author:
Waterford Healing Arts Trust

Publisher:
Waterford Healing Arts Trust

Year:
2011

An artist's report of a visual art project at Galway's Merlin Park Hospital in a unit for people who had recently experienced a stroke.

Author:
Jennie Moran

Year:
2009

Context:
Stroke Unit

Artform:
Visual Art

Documentation of the Memory Dress project at St. Finbarr's Hospital, Cork

Author:
Charlotte Donovan, Marie Brett

Year:
2007

Artform:
Visual Art

The history and achievements of Age & Opportunity's Arts in Care Settings Programme

Author:
Padraig O’Morain & Ann Leahy

Publisher:
Age & Opportunity

Year:
2007

Context:
Older people

Documentation of Mayo County Council's Artists' Mentoring and Network Programme

Author:
Orla Moloney

Publisher:
Mayo County Council

Year:
2006

Context:
Training

Artform:
Visual Art

A study of the Culture and Health Strand of the programme for Cork 2005: European Capital of Culture.

Author:
Ann O’Connor

Publisher:
Cork 2005: European Capital of Culture

Year:
2005

Reflections, observations and experiences of St. Joseph's Hospital Arts Project Ennis

Author:
Clare County Council Arts Office

Publisher:
Clare County Council Arts Office

Year:
2004

Context:
Older people

Artform:
Literature, Visual Art

Documentation of Mayo County Council's Artist in Residence programme at the Sacred Heart Hospital

Author:
Mayo County Council

Publisher:
Mayo County Council

Year:
2002

Context:
Mental Health, Older people

Artform:
Visual Art

Unfolding Time comprises a series of poems and stories by patients from the Dialysis Unit at Waterford Regional Hospital

Author:
Bríd Ryan, Johanna Tanner, Liz McCue and Philip Cullen

Publisher:
Waterford Healing Arts Trust

Year:
2013

Context:
Renal Dialysis

Artform:
Literature

Author:
Waterford Healing Arts Trust

Publisher:
Waterford Healing Arts Trust

Year:
2013

Context:
Arts and health

Artform:
Visual Art

An exhibition catalogue of artwork by service users and staff from Wexford Mental Health Services

Author:
Wexford County Council, Wexford Mental Health Services

Publisher:
Wexford County Council, Wexford Mental Health Services

Year:
2012

Context:
Mental Health

Artform:
Visual Art

An exhibition catalogue of artwork by Dorothy Ann Daly on display in Waterford Regional Hospital

Author:
Waterford Healing Arts Trust

Publisher:
Waterford Healing Arts Trust

Year:
2012

Context:
Acute Hospital

Artform:
Visual Art

An exhibition catalogue of artwork by Martin Fahy Artist in Residence with the Waterford Healing Arts Trust

Author:
Waterford Healing Arts Trust

Publisher:
Waterford Healing Arts Trust

Year:
2012

Context:
Acute Hospital, Artist, Exhibition

Artform:
Visual Art

An exhibition catalogue of artwork by participants of the Waterford Healing Arts Trust’s Open Studio Workshop

Author:
Waterford Healing Arts Trust

Publisher:
Waterford Healing Arts Trust

Year:
2011

Context:
Mental Health, Social Health

Artform:
Visual Art

An exhibition catalogue of artwork and writing created through the WHAT arts programme in the Dialysis Unit of Waterford Regional Hospital

Author:
Waterford Healing Arts Trust

Publisher:
Waterford Healing Arts Trust

Year:
2011

Context:
Renal Dialysis

Artform:
Literature, Visual Art

An exhibition catalogue of artwork by Emily Robyn Archer Artist in Residence with the Waterford Healing Arts Trust

Author:
Waterford Healing Arts Trust

Publisher:
Waterford Healing Arts Trust

Year:
2010

Context:
Acute Hospital

Artform:
Visual Art

An exhibition catalogue of artwork by Laura Fitzgerald Artist in Residence with WHAT

Author:
Waterford Healing Arts Trust

Publisher:
Waterford Healing Arts Trust

Year:
2009

Context:
Acute Hospital

Artform:
Visual Art

An exhibition catalogue of artwork made by Pauline Keena in collaboration with a group of mothers, all of whom had the experience of losing a baby in the neo-natal period

Author:
Pauline Keena

Publisher:
Kildare County Council

Year:
2009

Context:
Maternity

Artform:
Visual Art