Articles & Documentation
This section presents a diverse range of material such as essays, reports and catalogues which document and discuss aspects of arts and health practice.
Found: 82 posts
Articles
Reflecting on arts and health practice by Luci Kershaw
Luci Kershaw is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work explores health topics and themes, as well as more traditional practice within the area of arts and health. Luci was awarded the artsandhealth.ie Emerging Artist Bursary in 2024 and has spent her time exploring how to embrace more collaborative approaches to sharing people’s stories through sound and film.
2 February, 2025
Documentation of projects
Art By Their Side
Irish Hospice Foundation’s Arts and Cultural Engagement programme embarked on a yearlong residency project in 2023 titled “Artists in Residence in Service to People at End of Life”. Art By Their Side features interviews with participants and showcases the creative work that emerged from the residencies.
30 March, 2024
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Experience 2023: Reflection by Noelle Brown
Experience 2023: An Introduction to Arts, Health and the Older Person was a learning programme aimed at professional arts practitioners with an interest in working with older people in a health context. Noelle Brown reflects on some of the presentations and themes that spoke to her personally, and the learnings that she as an artist took from the day.
22 March, 2024
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Creative Brain Week: Knowledge Making
This publication brings together the lived experience and insights shared during Creative Brain Week, an annual exploration of how brain science and creativity connect to seed new ideas in social development, culture, wellbeing, and physical, mental and brain health across the life cycle and across society.
12 January, 2024
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Let’s Pause – A reflection by artist Catarina Araújo
Visual artist Catarina Araújo designed her first arts and health project with mental health professionals in Cork to explore their experiences of Covid-19. The need for time and space to pause reverberated throughout the project and has informed Catarina’s reflection, funded by the artsandhealth.ie emerging artist bursary 2023.
21 December, 2023
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Response to Experience: Arts, Health and Older People 2022
Experience: An Introduction to Arts, Health and Older People was a three-day online learning programme in 2022 aimed at professional arts practitioners with an interest in working with older people in a health and/or community context.
29 October, 2023
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Wherever you go: Learnings from an emerging arts and health practice by Áine Rose Connell
Áine Rose Connell, a visual artist and poet, brings her background as a Speech and Language Therapist and her experience of collaborative poetry making to bear in Wherever you go, a written exploration of her emerging arts and health practice.
15 January, 2023
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The Art of being Healthy and Well: Symposium Report
The all-of-government Creative Ireland Programme, Healthy Ireland, the Health Service Executive and the Arts Council co-hosted a national symposium in 2022 on the positive benefits of creativity and the arts to health and wellbeing at the Royal College of Physicians in Dublin.
2 November, 2022
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Reading between the lines
Reading between the lines is a reflective report by Mary Grehan documenting a learning programme for artists called Experience: An Introduction to Arts, Health and Older People.
30 April, 2022
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Material Language: Reflections on an arts and health practice by Ciara Harrison
Arts and health practice often involves engaging with people who are far from home and familiar spaces. How does an artist create a sense of space and place, of warmth and trust, in unfamiliar territory?
30 April, 2022
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THE SINGING BODY: Personal Reflections on an Arts & Health Practice by Sadhbh O’Sullivan
Songwriter and musician Sadhbh O'Sullivan was awarded an artsandhealth.ie artist bursary in 2021 to reflect on her approach to a holistic music and health practice.
27 January, 2022
Documentation of projects
Other People’s Practices: And More Besides
Other People’s Practices brings artists and health service users of the Central Mental Hospital together to collaborate on projects. Founder and Director John Conway was awarded the artsandhealth.ie documentation bursary in 2019 to create a publication about the programme.
29 August, 2021
