ARTS, HEALTH & THE ARTS THERAPIES

NEWS, EVENTS & EXHIBITIONS

MENTORING, THERAPY & TRAINING

EXETER ARTS & THERAPIES CONFERENCES

RIPPLES:
The Arts, Therapy & Education. 2004

The speakers for this fourth EATc were:
Val Huet, Chief Executive of the British Association Art Therapists.
Terry Rigby of the Stockport Arts on Prescription project.
Alan Bleakley of the Peninsula Medical School.

The day was chaired by Malcolm Learmonth of the
Creative Therapies Service, Devon. Partnership Trust.

Further information is available on the EATc website:
http://www.eatc.org.uk .
Through this site you will also find some papers and feedback
from the previous three events:
EATc 1: Authenticity Pragmatism and Survival in Art Therapy
EATc 2: Working from a Full Palette: The Arts as an Agent of Change in Social, Healthcare and Therapeutic settings

EATc 3: Diverse Applications.

Insider Art have worked with the Champernowne Trust for Psychotherapy and the Arts, Devon Partnership NHS Trust, Exeter University, St Loyes School of Health Studies, the British Association of Art Therapists (BAAT) and Arts Council England, South West on the Exeter Arts and Therapies conferences. (EATc).

These conferences take place in March at Crossmead Conference Centre, University of Exeter, a small, comfortable venue, conveniently situated on the western outskirts of the city. Most importantly, it offers excellent puddings!

The conferences are designed to explore our general theme of stimulating conversations across the arts and health. The EATc events aim for clear articulation of the value of the arts as therapy, an appreciation of them as resources to other, broader approaches to the arts in health, and to provide an opportunity for practitioners and thinkers across the range to learn from one another. As the arts and health field is developing rapidly there is a potential danger of reinventing the wheel! EATc aim to share the knowledge and skills developed in the arts as therapy more widely. Art Therapy has frequently been marginalised and silenced in the field of arts and health, partly as a result of poor communication, but through EATc we want to make ignorance and preconceptions about this rich subject a thing of the past.

Caryl Sibbert: Founder of the Art Therapy MSc at Queens University Belfast, Her experience as trainer and art therapist has informed and developed her thinking about art making and healing processes tendency to inhabit �no man�s lands�, or �liminal� areas of experience, socially and psychologically.
Dr Christopher Gardener Thorpe: Consultant Neurologist at Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital Trust. He takes a literally medical and scientific view about how images and art are processed in the brain, and what we can and cannot scientifically know about brains, minds, and creativity.
Amrit & Rabindra Kaur Singh, -The Singh Twins: internationally exhibited contemporary British artists work in ways which do not tally with western notions of art as an individual heroic enterprise. Working together as Twins, within the arts language of the Indian subcontinent, while exploring very contemporary preoccupation's and themes. they challenge notions about identity, ethnicity and spirituality in art. Link to their website: www.singhtwins.co.uk
Sally Weston: Art therapist. Northern General Hospital.

With exhibitions by outsider artist Ronald Henriques and a range of archive art therapy paintings

Further details and conference reports are available on the dedicated website link : http://www.eatc.org.uk

�Evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very strongly to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different... There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact�.

Sherlock Holmes
(Arthur Conan Doyle)

�Stimulating, thought provoking, refreshing and inspiring�.
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�Reaffirming and challenging - a good opportunity to reflect on practice from different points of view�.

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�It questioned what I thought I knew! Gave me new perspectives that shifted my gaze - as good art should�
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�Challenged my assumptions about artists AND art therapists�.
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The Sixth Exeter Arts & Therapies conference will take place in March 2007
The theme will be announced later this year.

From left to right: Chair Malcolm Learmonth; Sally Weston; Caryl Sibbert; Amrit & Rabindra Kaur Singh; Dr Christopher Gardener Thorpe; Karen Huckvale & Andy Clements - Conference organisers

The Spaces Between: March 2005

Much art, and many art projects, defy categorisation. Much work is inspired by the dynamics of the �spaces between� known points on the map. This is true of the many ways in which art making functions in relation to health. We are delighted to have attracted four excellent speakers prepared to talk to this theme from very different angles for our fifth conference.

Sponsored by:
Champernowne Trust
Arts Council England
British Association of
Art Therapists
Insider Art &
Devon Partnership
NHS Trust

Work by Ronald Henriques

The Spaces Between:
This image was the conference logo. Do you see an inverted black triangle in the centre of this image? It is actually an illusion created by the spaces between the white shapes.

Diverse Applications

Working from a Full Palette.