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School of Generational Storytelling was a year-long interdisciplinary project by artist Eamon O’Kane, supported by artist Chelsea Canavan. Commissioned by The Model and set within six care homes throughout Sligo, the project reflected on how we share knowledge across time, how creative practice can support wellbeing, and how relationships between individuals, disciplines, and institutions can be cared for through art.
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Anam Beo is an arts collective that has delivered an arts and health programme for older people in care and community settings in Offaly since 2005. Anam Beo’s 20th Anniversary Project is a region-wide arts and health celebration in the Midlands showcasing two decades of groundbreaking work, where art and health intersect to tell powerful stories of resilience, connection, and change.
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Cut from the Same Cloth is a project initiated by University College Dublin Conway Institute of Biomedical and Biomolecular Research, seeking to build trust and foster new connections between women and girls from minority communities in Ireland and biomedical health researchers. Stories and experiences from a series of gatherings exploring 'the fabric of our lives' have culminated in a touring exhibition by artist and tapestry weaver Lorna Donlon.
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Irish Hospice Foundation have been developing a Compassionate Culture Network across Ireland since 2021. These are spaces facilitated by artists for people to gently explore loss and how compassion connects through a variety of creative practices. Initially supported by Creative Ireland, additional support from Rethink Ireland’s Impact Fund for Munster enabled expansion across Munster in 2023.
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A Dive in Line showcases a yearlong exploratory project in West Cork between six individuals experiencing Parkinson’s disease / Parkinsonism, healthcare staff in Dunmanway Community Hospital and Day Care Centre, and participatory artist / speech & language therapist Áine Rose Connell. The project formed part of the Arts for Health Partnership Programme West Cork.
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Making My Mark is a pilot art programme with renal dialysis patients at the BBraun Wellstone Wexford Renal Care Centre. Delivered by artist Kate Murphy, the programme ran from February to June 2024, and culminated in a public exhibition of patient artwork.
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Artist Vincent Devine, cancer researchers at UCD Conway Institute, and patient partners with a lived experience of cancer worked collaboratively to integrate art and science. From these conversations, Devine created a powerful visual representation that offers a glimpse into the journey of cancer, from its molecular origins to its profound effects on an individual’s wellbeing.
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The Storytelling through Weaving project was designed and delivered by wellbeing artist Lucy Hyland and participants from Headway in Cork, a support service for people affected by stroke and Acquired Brain Injury (ABI). Participants created individual weaves and the project culminated in a shared woven wall hanging as a visual account of their recovery from ABI and stroke.
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The arts and cultural engagement in all their forms help people of all ages explore and articulate loss, death, dying, and grief. Since Irish Hospice Foundation’s Arts and Cultural Engagement programme began in 2021, we’ve focused mainly on the bereaved and grieving. In 2023, we trialled an Artists in Residence in Service to People at End of Life project.
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Creative Carers is a community-based strand of the Arts for Health Partnership Programme in West Cork, initiated in 2022. The programme creates access to engage with the arts for and with family carers, taking place at carers' homes, in arts spaces and in community settings across the region.
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Participatory artist and maker Ciara Harrison worked with a group of young people who access the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) in Waterford. During the summer of 2022, they embroidered, painted, wrote, and explored many different craft and artistic mediums together.
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Visual artist Rozzi Kennedy began collaborating with older people in County Louth care settings in 2019 as part of a sequence of An Táin Arts Centre outreach projects. The projects were adapted throughout the Covid-19 pandemic with changing government guidelines, and further developed after restrictions lifted.
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Visual artist Sharon Dipity collaborated with a group of older people in Skibbereen Community Hospital in 2022 to explore task-based performance art around the theme of bridges, supported by an Arts Council Agility Award. The award afforded Sharon vital time for experimentation as part of sustaining creativity in long-term participatory practice.
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I brought the dream of flying was an exhibition by artists Corina Duyn and Caroline Schofield which featured work created in response to Corina’s move into full-time nursing home care. Working together for 18 months, the artists developed a new methodology which enabled Corina to continue making art in the face of her increasing disability.
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In 2019 Navin Hyder was invited to be the first artist-in-residence at the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin. Hyder’s interest in oncology, in particular cancer operations, led her to the hospital’s operating theatres. Over a two-year period, she developed a large body of work consisting mainly of drawings of live procedures.
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A transdisciplinary arts project exploring dementia family care-giving and Ireland’s new capacity legislation. Initiated and led by visual artist Marie Brett, working with dance artist and choreographer Philip Connaughton and members of the Dementia Carers Campaign Network.
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During the pandemic Helium Arts' remote pilot programme offered connection and creative engagement for teenagers with long-term health conditions across Ireland who were more isolated than usual. Helium’s vision is for a long-term programme that reaches teenagers living rurally across Ireland.
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The Balloon Tree is a pair of sculptures by artist Róisín de Buitléar commissioned by Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) for its new Outpatient and Urgent Centre at Connolly Hospital and its Emergency Care facility at Tallaght University Hospital.
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In 2019 The Model commissioned Andy Parsons to be Artist in Residence at Sligo University Hospital. Parsons particularly focused on the Renal Ward where patients undergoing dialysis explored creativity through experiments in painting and drawing.
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Our Stories was developed as a creative response to the coming together of the three Dublin Paediatric Hospitals and in preparation for the move into the new children’s hospital, which is currently being built.
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A Bird at My Window and Other Stories is a project by artists Sarah Fuller and Manuela Corbari for children and their families in hospital settings developed for Galway 2020 European Capital of Culture.
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Artists Conall Cary and Peter McMorris were commissioned to create artworks for Waterford Residential Care Centre under the Per Cent for Art Scheme. The commission was managed by Waterford Healing Arts Trust and involved participation from staff and service users.
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Time in Our Lives is a series of limited-edition illustrated books designed to engage participants and staff in creative conversation and art making during the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Off the Wall is a series of artworks by Alan Dunne at Children's Health Ireland (CHI) Connolly. The artworks were inspired by drawings created by some of the children and young people who visited the centre in 2020, along with conversations the artist conducted with CHI Connolly staff.
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Gairdín Mhuire is a day care centre for older people located in Dingle. Úna Ní Shé has worked there as a visual artist since 2003. Úna describes her evolving response as an artist to the closure of Gairdín Mhuire to all normal activities in March 2020.
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A multimedia project devised by artist Rosaleen Heavin in response to Covid-19 restrictions. Delivered online, the project explores experiences of lockdown and isolation with participants from Longford/Westmeath Adult Mental Health Services and Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services.
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Viriditas is a song cycle by Irish singer and artist Ceara Conway for The Deepest Shade of Green, an Arts and Health programme for Galway 2020 European Capital of Culture. Commissioned by Saolta Arts and Galway 2020, it was created for the staff and patients of the seven hospitals of Saolta University Health Care Group.
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Butterfly Haven is a commissioned artwork by artist Lucy Turner dedicated to remembering our deceased colleagues in Tallaght University Hospital.
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Teenagers with cystic fibrosis face barriers when it comes to connecting and conversing with each other: due to cross-infection issues, they cannot be in the same physical space. Helium Arts established the Summer Stars online art programme in spring 2019 to support these connections and create a space for the development of creative skills.
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Waiting for Me is a collaborative visual arts and health project exploring the experience of waiting in an active creative space in the Paediatric Outpatients Area of South Tipperary General Hospital.
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Cúram is a four person exhibition by artists Daniel Chester, Cherry Dowling, Amy McGovern and Stephen Rennicks. The artists, based in the environs of County Sligo, had artistic encounters within the realm of healthcare for older people. They were invited to make work responding to that experience.
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Le Pont des Arts is a non-profit artistic company working in the paediatric departments of Brussels’ main hospitals. For 21 years, six artists (currently a singer, a musician, a dancer, a storyteller, a juggler and a visual artist) have been performing weekly in children’s rooms.
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OFFSET was an intergenerational print project in 2019 involving participants in Paediatrics and Care for the Elderly at Galway University Hospitals and staff from the wider hospital community.
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The Sky’s The Limit is a permanent installation of uniquely designed hot air balloons in Tallaght University Hospital.
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Memory is Grey is a body of work based on artist Gillian Cussen’s experience as a person and as an art facilitator with people who have some form of memory loss (and their loved ones).
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Tracing Autonomy explores autonomy, creativity and end of life. The project is a collaboration between two artists who work at The Prince & Princess of Wales Hospice (PPWH) in Glasgow, Jeni Pearson and Kirsty Stansfield, in consultation with philosopher Prof. Ben Colburn from the University of Glasgow.
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Stories from the Well-Field is an interactive performance created by a group of residents in St. Joseph’s Unit, Bantry General Hospital in collaboration with artist Tess Leak, puppeteer Eoin Lynch and composer Justin Grounds.
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Castlebar-born visual artist Bryan Gerard Duffy was awarded one of the HSE Percent for Art Scheme Commissions in the Sacred Heart Hospital, Castlebar as part of the new wing development in the residential home. Over five months, he collaborated with staff, visitors, and service users of the hospital, with the old dancehall days in Ireland as the starting point for conversations.
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Visual artist Joanna Hopkins was awarded the inaugural Bealtaine Artist in Residence in a Care Setting in 2017. Over four months, Joanna collaborated with residents of Orchard Day Care Centre in Blackrock, Co. Dublin, using the sensory garden as both a starting point for conversation and as a source for artmaking.
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Open Gallery is an art project developed in 2018 by Waterford Healing Arts Trust (WHAT) which invites people living with dementia – and their family members / carers – to look at, discuss and enjoy paintings from the University Hospital Waterford (UHW) Art Collection in a safe and welcoming space, supported by professional artists.
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What is the best way to clearly communicate necessary healthcare information? 'Got It?' is a health literacy project by collaborative artists Rowena Keaveny and Julie Spollen, created in partnership with Anam Beo arts and health organisation and Offaly’s Public Participation Network.
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Portrait of a Patient is a four-piece collection of artwork and poetry by artist Sinead Lawless exploring her personal experience with illness.
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In 2018, artist Toma McCullim worked with the residents, staff and visitors of Skibbereen Hospital Campus on a collaborative art project to create a bronze public sculpture for the Hospital Grounds.
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Caroline Hyland is an artist in residence at Tallaght University Hospital (TUH). ‘Can You See What I See?’ is a series of paintings by Caroline strongly informed by listening to people with dementia and to those that support them, their families, friends and the medical professions.
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TODAY was a photography project located in St Finbarr’s Hospital Campus in Cork city from 2013 to 2016. The project was led by artist Colette Lewis working in participation with healthcare staff to create new photographic work in response to the hospital campus.
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The Trial is a visual art installation on the history of healthcare and human rights in the Irish criminal justice system, made for the Old Courtroom, Kilmainham Gaol Museum, Dublin 8.
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This project is an innovative research initiative entitled: 'Illuminating childbirth experiences of women attending a midwife-led service via visual art works - An interpretive phenomenological study.'
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The New Normal is a collaborative community arts and health project exploring the lived experience of breast cancer through a visual arts lens. The project took place from 2016 to 2017 with artist John Conway and breast cancer survivors.
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PHOTOVOICES is a collaborative arts project examining through the camera lens the lived experiences of mental health in the Midlands of Ireland in 2017.
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The Creative Well is a visual arts and health programme that has developed from its 2011 pilot to provide space and place for arts participation in many forms for all in Co. Kildare. The programme is an ongoing partnership between KCC Arts Service, Kildare’s Arts and Wellbeing Specialist Carolann Courtney, the HSE Adult Mental Health Services and visual artists Dominic Thorpe and Emma Finucane.
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continuance by visual artist Clare Lymer is an installation of video works exploring the human experience of isolation suffered by tuberculosis patients.
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Well Festival of Arts and Wellbeing in Waterford celebrates the health benefits of participation in the arts and features a programme of free, fun, inventive and sociable arts events for all ages, across all artforms.
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Pathway is a collaborative Per Cent for Art commission between residents of Nazareth Care Village in Sligo and artists Catherine Fanning and Brigitta Varadi. Twelve sculptural ceramic artworks were designed and made for the grounds of the Care Village.
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The Forget Me Never Project was a collaborative visual art project at Tallaght Hospital from 2015 to 2017, led by Artist in Residence Lucia Barnes. Renal dialysis patients receiving treatment either in hospital or at home, staff, family and artists were all involved. The project resulted in a permanent artwork - The Forget Me Never Tree - in the new Haemodialysis Unit.
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Artist Sarah Ruttle led a collaboration with artists Tess Leak, Liz Clark and Colm Rooney to ‘imagine an Ireland of the future’ with the older residents and staff of two West Cork Community Hospitals over a three-month period in 2016.
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Drawing the Carers is a series of portraits by artist Róisín Curé of staff in University Hospital Galway. The project was commissioned by Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust in 2016 for a Uniform Recognition Campaign.
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Visual artist Louise Manifold was commissioned to develop participatory artwork on the theme of active citizenship in older people as part of the Burning Bright programme. In 2013/14, Louise worked across three different care settings in Galway City and County.
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Sinead Dinneen and Katie Verling are friends and arts practitioners curious about illness and death. We have experienced life-threatening cancers and live with ongoing medical problems. We developed Kicking the Bucket as a creative, humorous and thought-provoking participatory project on illness, dying, death and grief based on our personal experiences.
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Visual artist Sharon Dipity was commissioned by the HSE Cork Arts and Health Programme in 2014 to create site-specific artwork for Blackrock Hall Primary Care Centre in Cork following a competitive tendering process.
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The Creative Arts Service is a fully integrated ongoing core service at the Prince & Princess of Wales Hospice, Glasgow. It currently runs four days per week and is delivered by three graduate artists and a creative writer, all experienced in arts and health practice.
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These Tangled Threads was an investigation that reflected on the condition of dementia by artist Toma McCullim. The work was developed during a ten-week studio residency at Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre and resulted in a site-specific installation shown at Uillinn in 2015 during the Skibbereen Arts Festival.
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Cloudlands is an artist in residence programme for teenagers in hospital led by Helium Arts. Artists Rachel Tynan, Emma Fisher and Eszter Némethi worked in Temple Street Children’s University Hospital, University Hospital Galway and Cork University Hospital respectively between 2012 and 2015.
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Bouncing Away is a children’s collaborative book project about resilience and mental health, funded by HSE Northwest. The project culminated in the publication of a children’s mental health book – the first of its kind in Ireland.
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Iontas is a multi-artform participatory arts and mental health programme which is delivered by Waterford Healing Arts Trust (WHAT) in partnership with the Waterford Wexford Mental Health Services (WWMHS).
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Bedside is an art project by Sligo artist Andy Parsons at the Inpatients Unit, Mental Health Services Sligo / Leitrim. In collaboration with patients, the artist developed a series of etchings for each bedside locker, as part of a commission for both male and female wards.
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Lying in Wait was an artist in residence project with adult patients in Tallaght University Hospital led by artist Deirdre Glenfield and supported by the National Centre for Arts and Health (NCAH).
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Personal Effects by visual artist Alan Counihan was based on the institutional archives and the belongings of dead or discharged patients from Grangegorman (St.
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In 2014, Butler Gallery was awarded a grant to extend its Azure programme with people living with dementia in Kilkenny. Residents of St Gabriel’s Ward in St Canice’s Hospital were invited to engage with and respond to work from Butler Gallery’s Permanent Collection with a trained arts facilitator.
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The Creative Check Up is an interactive and participatory installation and performative event which has taken place in a variety of arts and health settings in Dublin since being established in early 2014.
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Wise Ways was a participatory arts project with older people, originating at Raheen Hospital in County Clare. A unique collection of handmade artworks in clay and personal memories or stories were created and exhibited at participating venues.
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In 2013, Galway Technical Institute was awarded an NAPD Creative Engagement Award to work with visual artist Marielle MacLeman and Further Education students on an introduction to Arts and Health practice. A series of participative workshops informed the publication, The Music of What Happens: A Student’s Guide to Arts and Health.
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E.gress is an audio-visual filmic artwork resulting from a regional and multi-sited collaborative project between artist Marie Brett, musician Kevin O’Shanahan and The Alzheimer Society of Ireland.
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In 2012, students at TASK (Training And Support Kilkenny) exhibited ‘On the Edge: The Chair Project’ as part of Kilkenny Arts Festival. This collection of almost 40 old salvaged chairs illustrated personal feelings, experiences and frustrations associated with mental health issues and the journey to recovery.
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Creative Exchanges is a course developed by Age & Opportunity for anyone leading creative activities with older people in care settings.
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In 2012, Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust was awarded an Arts Council Arts Participation Project Award to work with visual artist Marielle MacLeman on a yearlong arts project in the haemodialysis unit at Merlin Park University Hospital, Galway.
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Cut Throat was the result of a two-year Research Masters in NCAD undertaken by artist Rachel Tynan which aimed to visualise living with long-term illness. The final production of Cut Throat manifested in an exhibition, performance and series of talks at The Lab in Dublin.
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In 2012, Anam Beo artists Tina Gaffey and Kieran Brennan facilitated an eight-week participant-led pilot project for patients in the Renal Unit of the Midlands Regional Hospital, Tullamore. The accessible technique of print was introduced to participants of various ages who decided on the theme of sanctuary for their group artwork.
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Encounters was a collaboration between Triskel Arts Centre and St. Finbarr’s Hospital, a multidisciplinary hospital site. The collaboration formed part of the arts and health strand of Cork EU Capital of Culture 2005.
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Lived Lives is an arts-led cross-disciplinary PhD by Seamus McGuinness located within the School of Medicine at University College Dublin which goes behind the statistics to capture stories of some of the young lives lost to suicide in Ireland.
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Hearth is a Mayo based arts programme for older people living in their own homes.
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Liminality is an art project by Ciara McMahon and the Living Gift Transplant Support Group that manifested at the NCAD Gallery Dublin in February 2011.
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The Puppet Portal Project merged the areas of art, technology and health, in order to facilitate children in hospital to create interactive puppetry performances in four acute hospitals (Dublin, Limerick and Sligo), over a five-month period.
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Memory Found is a pilot collaborative visual art project between artist Lucia Barnes, patients with dementia at the Age Related Day Hospital of Tallaght Hospital, Dublin, and carers of patients with dementia at the Blanchardstown Carers Association Centre, Dublin 15.
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The hospital is a place in which the accumulation of bacteria, fragments and possessions is discouraged. The emphasis is on sterility and functionality. These are not conditions which promote familiarity. Artist Jennie Moran wondered what she could bring to such a place. Her art project, Personal Effects, took place in the Stroke Unit of Galway’s Merlin Park University Hospital in 2009.
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Artist Pauline Keena collaborated with a group of mothers, all of whom had the experience of losing a baby in the neo-natal period, to create an exhibition that reflected and was informed by the experience of embodied grief and the language of loss in the body.
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The Amulet was a national, multi-site participatory arts project led by visual artist Marie Brett which creatively explored the idea of an Amulet as an object signifier relating to critical life-span junctures of birth and death.
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An initiative of Cork Mental Health Services, 49 North Street in Skibbereen was established in 2017 as a community-based hub for creativity, recovery and wellness in West Cork.
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The Arts Committee in University Hospital Limerick was established in 2016.
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Waterford Healing Arts is Ireland’s longest established arts and health organisation, founded in 1993 at University Hospital Waterford (UHW).
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Hearth is a Mayo based arts programme for older people living in their own homes.
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Initiated by a generous long-term loan of over 100 works of Modern Irish Art by John and Patricia Hunt, Galway University Hospitals set up an Arts Committee in early 2003 to develop an arts programme for University Hospital Galway and Merlin Park University Hospital.
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St Luke's General Hospital is an acute hospital in Kilkenny City which provides acute healthcare services to the people of Carlow and Kilkenny.
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Activities include: Artist in Residence programme Art exhibitions A Menu of Poems: an annual initiative bringing poetry to all patients in hospital to celebrate National Poetry Day Hospital Choir .
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Positive health is more than freedom from illness or disease – it is a feeling of wellbeing, an awareness and involvement in the joy of living.
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Raheen Community Hospital and Day Care Centre in Co. Clare aims to deliver a varied programme of arts to day care visitors and hospital residents.
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Arts for Health (AfH) is a partnership programme based in West Cork, which has provided a managed arts programme for older people in healthcare settings since 2005.
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The Creative Life Centre at Mercer’s Institute for Successful Ageing (MISA), St James’s Hospital, promotes and highlights the creativity of older people, enabling them to express themselves through art, sculpture, poetry, literature, music and drama.
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Our mission is ‘to provide a creative arts and health programme specific to patient, staff and healthcare department needs; that improves the hospital experience by making arts accessible to all.
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The National Gallery of Ireland’s Arts & Health programming recognizes the significant health benefits that engagement with creative practices can have for our community at large, enhancing individual wellbeing while also developing social cohesion.
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St Luke's Hospital in Rathgar, Dublin, has been caring for cancer patients from all over Ireland since 1954.
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Arts Ability is an inclusive, participatory arts programme which celebrates the artistic and creative imagination of people who experience mental health problems and/or intellectual, physical or sensory disabilities.
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The new children’s hospital will be a world-class facility to look after children and young people from all over Ireland who have complicated and serious illnesses and who are in need of specialist and complex care.
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Helium Arts: • supports a dynamic, child-friendly, family centred, holistic approach to children’s medical provision, within community, primary, and acute healthcare contexts.
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For young people who have experienced trauma, nurturing a safe space for creativity to unfold requires particular care and sensitivity. Art therapist Claire Flahavan and artist Emma Finucane brought their specific areas of expertise, and mutually supportive ways of working, to the Stepping Stones project at The Alders Unit, a therapeutic service for children and adolescents affected by sexual abuse. Claire reflects on their collaboration with young service users to create permanent artworks for the Unit’s new home at CHI-Tallaght.
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Navin Hyder reflects on her three-year artist residency at the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital in Dublin, where she created a large body of work in the hospital’s operating theatres. Hyder details the evolving nature of the residency, new terrain for both artist and hospital staff, and how personal connections with families impacted by cancer shaped its outcomes.
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Providing inclusive art experiences for older people within and outside of the museum walls is integral to the Irish Museum of Modern Art’s Engagement & Learning Programme. Helen O’Donoghue and Bairbre-Ann Harkin reflect on the development of remotely accessible art programmes for older audiences during the pandemic and spearheading initiatives that speak to people’s needs in a changing world.
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Claire Flahavan works as an art therapist in St Louise’s Unit at Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) Crumlin. Claire reflects on her experience of Sidestep, an Arts in Health project for staff within the Unit at the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Artist and puppet designer Corina Duyn has been exploring the internal landscape of illness in her work since she was diagnosed with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (M.E.) in 1998. Corina reflects on how her art making has evolved and new avenues of discovery have opened up as she challenges the limitations of the body with the demands of a creative mind.
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There are more than 180 artworks from the Arts Council Collection currently on display in 14 healthcare settings across the Republic of Ireland. Ben Mulligan and Ann O'Connor from the Arts Council provide insights into the lending and selection process, and the impact this artwork can have on healthcare communities.
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‘Memory, for migrants, is almost always the memory of loss.'
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Delivering an art project in an acute setting for people with dementia and other age-related conditions can bring unique rewards and challenges. This podcast explores the Open Gallery art viewing programme at University Hospital Waterford from the viewpoint of the healthcare staff, artists and participants involved.
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Susannah Hall, Joint Head of GOSH Arts, reflects on The Temporary Tattoo Parlour at Great Ormond Street Hospital, developed by artist Davina Drummond with adolescent patients.
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Addressing the imagined participants of an Arts and Health workshop, Marielle MacLeman draws from her experiences of working as an artist in palliative and chronic healthcare settings to reflect upon the values that underpin her responsive approach to person-centred arts participation.
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I sometimes make artworks dealing with other people’s personal and traumatic experiences, including mental and physical ill-health, and various human rights abuses, often through direct engagement or collaboration with them.
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Katie Verling draws upon her own experience as an acutely ill patient to advocate for the receptive arts as a means of addressing the anxiety, boredom, isolation and sensory deprivation of patients.
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Artist and General Practitioner, Dr Ciara MacMahon, discusses how the fields of art and medicine differ in their responses to ethical issues and cites two contemporary artworks that raise challenging ethical questions of relevance to medics.
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Johanna Tanner is a Dialysis patient in Waterford Regional Hospital who has been participating in the Waterford Healing Arts Trust’s arts programme since 2008. Here she talks about her experience.
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Evidence-based medicine is the use of current best research in making decisions about the care of individual patients. With the delivery of arts projects within healthcare settings, there is a debate at large as to whether it is appropriate to apply an evidence-based approach to arts interventions. Catherine McCabe PhD, lecturer at Trinity College Dublin, School of Nursing and Midwifery, presents her views.
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Dealing In The Reality is a panel talk exploring Other People's Practices (OPP), an artist residency and research programme with the National Forensic Mental Health Service.
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Delivering an art project in an acute setting for people with dementia and other age-related conditions can bring unique rewards and challenges. This podcast explores the Open Gallery art viewing programme at University Hospital Waterford from the viewpoint of the healthcare staff, artists and participants involved.
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Addressing the imagined participants of an arts and health workshop, Marielle MacLeman draws from her experiences of working as an artist in palliative and chronic healthcare settings to reflect upon the values that underpin her responsive approach to person-centred arts participation.
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This radio documentary, made by Caroline Brennan from GiantLeap Productions, follows the work of Cork-based artist Marie Brett who collaborated with 10 Irish families who have experienced infant loss.
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Mary Grehan interviews artist Dorothy Ann Daly about her work on the exhibition Body Conscious in Waterford Regional Hospital and her experience of making art since her diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis in the late 90s.
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Sarah Fuller and Yvonne Cullivan, Artists with Helium Arts, discuss their experiences of working with children and young people through the arts in healthcare settings in Galway.
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A video lecture by Corina Duyn documenting her 23 year long creative journey through chronic illness with a focus on puppetry.
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Yes, But Do You Care? is a body of cross-disciplinary art works created by visual artist Marie Brett and choreographer / dancer Philip Connaughton in collaboration with members of the Dementia Carers Campaign Network.
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Transforming the bedsides of young patients into miniature theatre spaces, Sarah Fuller and Manuela Corbari share an enchanting collection of stories where the natural and human worlds are intertwined.
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A poetic reflection on life on the West Cork coast as remembered by the residents of Clonakilty Community Hospital.
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A poet, a raconteur, and two nurses escape the clinical confines of dialysis to reveal how an Arts and Health programme enhances time and fosters human connection, long after their traces are wiped away by Actichlor. Saolta Arts was awarded the 2017 artsandhealth.ie Documentation Bursary to work with filmmaker Tom Flanagan and visual artist Marielle MacLeman on this film.
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The New Normal is a collaborative community arts and health project exploring the lived experience of breast cancer through a visual arts lens.
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ANIMA, a film by Colm Mullen exploring visual artist Marie Brett's research on death and care, was funded through the 2016 artsandhealth.ie Documentation Bursary.
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Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust commissioned visual artist Finbar 247 to see if art can change how we feel in a hospital.
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Following nearly 15 years of working with artists from West Cork and further afield, a group of people attending Skibbereen Day Care Centre decided to create their own museum at Uillinn Gallery in Skibbereen in 2016.
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This e-publication brings together a set of findings, recommendations, reflections and references informed by a Podcast and Workshop series held in 2022 that revisited the project Creative Enquiry: Arts and Older People.
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This handbook is a set of useful ideas and recommendations that come from a robust research project setting out some foundations for developing visual arts projects with and for people affected by dementia.
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A set of design principles for dementia-friendly environments in healthcare buildings.
Research & Evaluation
Curator Vivienne Reiss was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to visit Denmark, Sweden and Japan and explore how healthcare buildings in these countries enhance health and wellbeing, and the contribution of art to the healing environment. Her findings illustrate the multi-faceted role of art and include 13 case studies in general, paediatric and psychiatric hospitals.
Research & Evaluation
In 2022, the Arts for Health Partnership developed and delivered Creative Carers, a participatory arts programme strand for and with carers in West Cork. This report explores the research and development phase, programme strands and delivery, and quantitative and qualitative outcomes.
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The Irish Museum of Modern Art launched Art & Ageing, an inclusive art programme, in autumn 2020 to help older adults and people living with dementia to combat the social side effects of the global pandemic. This report contains a programme overview, key findings and qualitative feedback collected from stakeholders.
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Helium Arts is the national children's arts and health organisation. This Social Return on Investment study covers Helium's work over a two-year period (2019 - 2020). The research found that the social value of Helium's work is worth almost twice as much as the funding it receives based on the outcomes achieved for stakeholders.
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Waterford Healing Arts Trust has been running an arts programme in the Renal Dialysis Unit at University Hospital Waterford since 2007.
Research & Evaluation
A Second Report from the National Alliance for Museums, Health and Wellbeing in England explores in greater depth the development of the museums, health and wellbeing sector.
Research & Evaluation
The results of two stages of research undertaken by Art Fund – a UK-wide representative survey of over 2,500 adults, and a qualitative social study – suggest that engaging with art collections more frequently can help improve our wellbeing.
Research & Evaluation
This paper explores how and why visual art interventions in dementia care influence changes in outcomes.
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This paper presents three artists’ residencies in a geriatric medicine unit in a teaching hospital.
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This thesis was submitted by Hilary Moss towards the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Department of Medical Gerontology, School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin in 2014.
Research & Evaluation
This is an exploratory document which teases out some of the conditions needed for a multi-disciplinary collaborative approach to art making in a mental health setting.
Research & Evaluation
A pilot evaluation of the Azure project at the Butler Gallery, Kilkenny.
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Four intensive organisational case studies characterise and compare distinctive approaches to socially engaged visual arts practice in the UK.
Research & Evaluation
A report on the art programme in the Dialysis Unit of Tallaght Hospital.
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The research explores whether visual and performing arts could have an effect on psychological, physiological and biological outcomes of clinical significance.
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A comparative study between a hospital and a gallery as sites for viewing art.
Research & Evaluation
A research report assessing the value of participation by patients, staff and community members in the Dreams Arts and Health visual art project in the Mater Hospital, Belfast.
Articles & Documentation
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.
Articles & Documentation
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.
Articles & Documentation
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.
Articles & Documentation
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.
Articles & Documentation
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?
Articles & Documentation
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.
Articles & Documentation
This report explores Ciara Harrison's work as 2017 Artist in Residence with Waterford Healing Arts Trust.
Articles & Documentation
A reflective review of the TODAY photography project in St Finbarr’s Hospital Campus in Cork City by artist Colette Lewis.
Articles & Documentation
This report explores Caroline Schofield's work as 2016 Artist in Residence with Waterford Healing Arts Trust.
Articles & Documentation
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).
Articles & Documentation
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.
Articles & Documentation
Spears of Daylight contempory arts exhibition, inspired by the creative writing of service users at St.
Articles & Documentation
Documentation of the Memory Dress project at St.
Articles & Documentation
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.
Event
Join RCSI (Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland) on World Sjögren’s Day, 23 July, for the Snapshots of Sjögren’s Photovoice Exhibition – communicating patients’ lived experience through the medium of photography.
Event
Honouring the power of human trust and connection, this exhibition is a song to cloth and to story.
Event
Topographical Journeys is a new exhibition by artist Edwina Bracken at University Hospital Waterford presenting layered, abstract views of the Irish landscape which explore the space between the material culture of the past and our existence in the digital world.
Event
The Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) is hosting a panel discussion on 16 July exploring how creativity, culture, and science shape the ways we age and care.
Event
Cut from the Same Cloth seeks to build trust and foster new connections between women and girls from minority communities in Ireland and biomedical health researchers.
Event
The Creative Hand is an exhibition by Josephine Hardiman at Tallaght University Hospital.
Event
ROAM Cork will launch on 29 May, an arts exhibition and temporary trail between Mayfield and Knocknaheeny.
Event
Since November 2024, photographic artist Liadh Connolly has been engaging three groups of transition year students in Dublin 12 in a project called Welcome to the Neighbourhood.
News
Stories from My Kitchen Table is a poignant and visually arresting exhibition by artist and poet Liza Cauldwell.
Event
Cut From The Same Cloth aims to foster connections that pave the way for meaningful integration of minority voices with UCD Conway Institute’s Patient Voice in Health Research initiative.
Event
The Colossus is a socially engaged art project exploring North Clondalkin’s unspoken and unacknowledged oral histories related to loss and bereavement by suicide – colossal things of enormous size and importance.
Opportunity
The Arts and Health Department at Tallaght University Hospital is seeking artists to exhibit their work in their welcoming and dynamic hospital environment.
Event
Mercer's Institute for Successful Ageing, a world-leading research hub in ageing, will host Crucial Views this March, exploring dementia through an academic and artistic lens, and through those with lived experience.
Opportunity
Saolta Arts invites professional practicing visual artists to apply for opportunities in the following hospitals of HSE West and North West in 2025 – 2026: University Hospital Galway, Merlin Park University Hospital, Portiuncula University Hospital Ballinasloe, Mayo University Hospital and Roscommon University Hospital.
Event
Sharing Stories is a collaborative exhibition born from a series of lunchtime wellbeing workshops for Children's Health Ireland's staff, facilitated by Visual Artist Peggie Mc Keon.
News
Luci Kershaw is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Galway.
Event
Healing Through Photography is a unique two-day conference hosted by Belfast Exposed that delves into the transformative power of photography as a medium for healing, growth, and connection.
Event
The world's leading conference for museum professionals interested in health and wellbeing is back for its fourth year, bringing together inspiring presentations and actionable advice from those leading this work in museums around the globe.
News
People living in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland are invited to take part in a new study exploring the unconscious impact of mural art on the psychosocial landscape of the North of Ireland / Northern Ireland.
Event
The Arts & Health Programme at Tallaght University Hospital (TUH) in collaboration with Rua Red South Dublin Arts Centre present Nature's Tapestry, an exhibition dedicated to the breathtaking landscapes and diverse wildlife of Ireland.
Event
Azure is a free experience at Photo Museum Ireland designed for people living with dementia and their families, friends and carers.
News
The latest exhibition from the Arts & Health Department at Tallaght University Hospital is BEHOLD, a selection of original artworks on loan from the AIB Art Collection.
Event
Smiling Dog are an arts and health collective exploring how art and art therapy coexist, and what each does in companionship and/or contention in participatory and healthcare contexts.
Opportunity
Creative Ireland Kerry within Kerry County Council is seeking a project co-ordinator to deliver Weaving Worlds Together, a Shared Island Creative Health and Wellbeing Project.
News
Earthly Delights is a new exhibition by artist Paul McCloskey at University Hospital Waterford.
Student Placement
The Arts & Health Student Training Portal provides student artists with volunteer placement opportunities to support and learn from a professional artist on an existing arts programme with a health or social care service.
Opportunity
Helium Arts invites applications from professional, multi-disciplinary visual artists to deliver their Creative Health Programme in Cork, Dublin, Galway and Limerick and surrounding counties as well as online.
News
A new programme of arts workshops for patients and people living with heart conditions launched in Galway City on Sunday 29 September, as part of World Heart Day.
News
Researchers from Ulster University’s School of Communication and Media are conducting a new study exploring the unconscious impact of mural art on the psychosocial landscape of the North of Ireland/Northern Ireland.
News
Safe Harbour is a free illustrated story book for children who have been bereaved by suicide. Published by the HSE in June 2024, Safe Harbour is written by Patricia Forde – Ireland's Laureate na nÓg – and illustrated by visual artist Bronagh Lee.
Event
The Centre of Everything celebrates the creative work of over fifty artists who participate in Arts Ability, an initiative of Wexford County Council, the HSE, and Wexford Mental Health Association.
Opportunity
Tallaght University Hospital (TUH) Arts & Health Department in collaboration with colleagues in Tymon North Community Unit and St Luke’s Hospital, Unit C are inviting artists to apply to be an Artist in Residence, facilitating art sessions for patients at the bedside and becoming a valued and supported member of the arts team.
News
The national arts and health website is delighted to announce that Luci Kershaw has been awarded this year’s Emerging Artist Bursary, funded by the Arts Council and the HSE.
News
The national arts and health website is delighted to announce that Hearth, a Mayo-based arts programme for older people living in their own homes, has been awarded this year’s Documentation Bursary which is funded by the Arts Council and the HSE.
Opportunity
Réalta, the national resource organisation dedicated to developing arts + health in Ireland, is seeking tenders from suitably qualified individuals or organisations to undertake an independent evaluation of the Waterford Healing Arts programme, Art at the Kitchen Table.
Opportunity
The Irish Museum of Modern Art is seeking a Curator to manage and deliver the IMMA Horizons Programme.
Event
Over the last 18 months Luxembourg artists Stéphanie Rollin and David Brognon have embedded themselves within the community of Tallaght as part of a residency and new commission for Rua Red, South Dublin Arts Centre.
Event
Creative spaces of sanctuary are vibrant assemblages where artists and communities with lived experience of forced displacement come together to co-create dynamic spaces that embody an expansive sense of hope and possibility.
Event
Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre is hosting a series of three evening workshops during Bealtaine Festival for HSE Cork Kerry Community Healthcare staff working with older people.
Opportunity
Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) Arts in Health Programme is seeking to engage an artist / artists to work with young people in Dublin 8 and Dublin 12 on the creation of a body of artwork to be shown as part of their exhibition programme in the concourse of the new children’s hospital in Rialto.
Event
A Sense of Self, a new art exhibition by participants from the Iontas Arts and Mental Health Programme, will be on show at Dungarvan Library until 12 May 2024.
Event
Cork Cultural Companions is hosting a series of creativity workshops to celebrate Bealtaine Festival, Ireland’s national celebration of the arts and creativity as we age.
News
Cultivating a more empathetic environment for families experiencing stillbirth is at the heart of a collaboration between arts and health collective Studio Poesis and staff from the Department of Obstetrics at Aalborg University Hospital in North Denmark.
Opportunity
As part of The Blooming Minds Club at Creative Spark Dundalk, artist and art therapist Jenny Slater will present a morning workshop for professional artists on 28 May 2024.
News
Tallaght University Hospital runs a varied and vibrant arts programme in the Renal Unit. Patient-centred art and music sessions offer a break from clinical worries patients may have while undergoing their dialysis treatment, and facilitate creative needs within different capacities for individual patients.
News
The Blooming Minds Club is a youth-led artist-supported creative arts hub for young people experiencing mental health difficulties based at Creative Spark Dundalk, with outreach workshops in Drogheda, County Louth.
Event
Caring for Creativity at Roscommon Arts Centre brings together works by artists who had residencies in local care settings in Roscommon over the past year.
Opportunity
Saolta Arts is currently accepting proposals for its 2024 - 2025 visual arts exhibition programme at University Hospital Galway.
Opportunity
Are you an adult who grew up with a sibling with a disability or chronic illness? If so, artist Tess Leak would love to meet you! Tess is conducting some research to explore the experiences and needs of other adult siblings (like herself) through one-to-one informal conversations.
Opportunity
Helium Arts, the children's arts and health organisation, is seeking volunteers to work with professional artists to support the creativity of children and teenagers on its 2024 Creative Health Programme.
Opportunity
The National College of Art and Design (NCAD) in partnership with Creative Futures Academy is now accepting applications for the Professional Diploma in Art and Health 2024. This eight-week, blended course offers grounding in an art and health context and will connect participants with leading figures of practice.
News
A cocoon evokes warmth, a safe haven, a nurturing space. Visual socially engaged artist Catarina Araújo designed her first arts and health project in 2021 with mental health professionals in Cork to explore their experiences of Covid-19.
Event
Friday Friends is an exhibition of art works produced by members of the Living Well with Dementia art group in Dublin South.
Event
Artists Sharon Whooley and Tess Leak will discuss the Museum of Birds and Beasts, a project that took place in community hospitals across West Cork, at a talk in the National Museum of Ireland - Country Life.
Event
The Vitruvian: Uncovering the Layers of Cancer is a body of work by leading Irish artist Vincent Devine, co-created with cancer researchers and a patient partner at the UCD Conway Institute, University College Dublin.
Opportunity
Helium Arts, the national children’s arts and health organisation, is seeking to employ a multi-disciplinary visual artist with a strong collaborative and inclusive arts practice with children and young people to join their Outpatients Programme in Dublin.
Event
Helium Arts, the national children's arts and health organisation, is inviting children and young people (ages 6-15) with lifelong physical health conditions to explore their creativity this autumn.
Opportunity
Helium Arts, the national children's arts and health organisation, is seeking to employ a professional, multi-disciplinary visual artist with a strong collaborative and inclusive arts practice to support delivery of their Creative Health Programme in Dublin.
Event
Our Vision Our Voice 2023 is the continuation of a six year collaboration between Mullingar Mental Health Association, HSE Mental Health Services (service users and Occupational Therapy staff) and visual artist Rosaleen Heavin.
Event
Neonatologist and Artist, Professor Afif EL-Khuffash, is showcasing his artwork celebrating breastfeeding mothers at two exhibitions in Waterford to mark National Breastfeeding Week 2023 (1 - 7 October).
Event
West Cork Feel Good Festival takes place every autumn, organised by 49 North Street - a creative space in Skibbereen that promotes positive mental health and wellbeing - and a broad range of community partners.
Event
Join the HSE National Librarian, Aoife Lawton, and library staff on Culture Night for half hour tours of Dr.
Event
Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) Arts in Health Programme is hosting a panel discussion for Culture Night reflecting on the opportunities and challenges of embedding excellent long-term arts practice into healthcare settings.
Opportunity
Anam Beo invites professional practicing artists to apply to be a part of its mentoring programme.
Event
The Museum of Birds and Beasts has been co-created by Tess Leak and Sharon Whooley with the residents of five community hospitals in West Cork.
Event
Salthall Reverie, an exhibition celebrating a very special place, opens on the Arts Corridor at University Hospital Galway on 17 July 2023, presented by Saolta Arts and Galway International Arts Festival.
Opportunity
An open call has been issued for artists to submit a piece of visual art exploring the theme of Climate and Health for an exhibition at the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland to be held in October 2023.
Opportunity
The CHI Arts in Health programme is seeking expressions of interest from artists / designers / makers / creative collectives to apply to complete a research and development process which will lead to a comprehensive proposal for a permanent artwork for the New Children’s Hospital.
Opportunity
Waterford Healing Arts invites artists of all art forms, including visual artists, musicians, writers and dance artists, to apply to join its Artist Panel.
News
The artsandhealth.ie emerging artist bursary affords time and space for an early career artist to reflect on their arts and health practice.
News
IMMA Horizons: Lifelong Creativity for the Curious, a new initiative aimed at supporting health and wellbeing through creative programmes and experiences, launched at IMMA (Irish Museum of Modern Art) on 14 June 2023.
Event
Helium Arts, the national children's arts and health charity, is hosting free summer art camps specially designed for children and young people (aged 8-15) living with a lifelong physical health condition.
News
RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences has announced a new Arts Strategy aimed at further enhancing the role of art in enriching the learning environment at the university.
Event
The dementia inclusive gallery tours at dlr LexIcon, Dún Laoghaire, are specially designed for people living with dementia, and their caregivers.
Event
Cocooning – Catch a Breath is an immersive and interactive sculptural exhibition arising from a socially engaged art project with artist Catarina Araújo and mental health professionals based in Cork City.
Opportunity
Helium Arts invites applications from professional, multi-disciplinary visual artists to deliver their Creative Health Programme to young people online.
Event
Tallaght University Hospital's opening exhibition of 2023 is A Geometric Progression, a collection of visual artworks by GRID Collective.
Event
The Mater Misericordiae University Hospital will host an innovative multimedia art exhibition entitled ‘Beyond the Surface: Art, Illuminating the Future of Surgery’ from 25 - 28 March 2023 in the Old Historical Surgery Rooms (entrance on Eccles Street).
Event
The Azure art viewing programme at Highlanes Gallery in Drogheda is designed for people living with Alzheimer’s and Dementia, and their carers.
Opportunity
Helium Arts, the national children’s arts and health organisation, invites applications from professional, multi-disciplinary visual artists to join Helium's Artist Panel as Associate Artists.
News
Drawing the Plants is an exhibition by artist Mary Lee Murphy, opening at University Hospital Galway on 4 February 2023 to coincide with World Cancer Day.
News
A new film created by older people from Cavan, Donegal, Leitrim, Mayo, Monaghan and Sligo, with artist Marie Brett, launched on 1 February 2023 to mark St Brigid's Day.
Event
The Museum of Birds and Beasts has been co-created by artists Tess Leak and Sharon Whooley with the residents of five community hospitals in West Cork.
Event
What’s the Story.
Event
Helium Arts, the national children's arts and health organisation, is hosting free art workshops this mid-term to support children aged 8-12 with lifelong physical health conditions in living life to the full.
News
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.
Event
I brought the dream of flying… is a new exhibition by artists Corina Duyn and Caroline Schofield at GOMA Gallery of Modern Art, Waterford.
News
Amber Women’s Refuge recently partnered with St Luke’s General Hospital Kilkenny to bring the LOVE Installation to the hospital, raising awareness around gender-based violence.
Event
dlr LexIcon, Dún Laoghaire is hosting a series of talks, co-ordinated by the Global Brain Health Institute, highlighting the impact and benefit of creativity in the lives of people with dementia.
Opportunity
Waterford Healing Arts Trust (WHAT) invites artists of all art forms and disciplines to submit proposals for its exhibition programme 2023–2025 at University Hospital Waterford.
Event
dlr Libraries are running an interactive and engaging programme this autumn specifically designed with carers in mind.
News
After West of Sumer, an exhibition of 15 giclée prints of botanical art, is currently showing at University Hospital Waterford. The title of the exhibition was inspired by the history of the Sumerians, an ancient people who some 5000 years ago recorded some of the first medicinal herbal and botanical preparations onto clay tablets.
News
Have you ever wanted to press pause on your busy life.
Opportunity
Helium Arts, the national children's arts and health organisation, invites applications from professional, multi-disciplinary visual artists with a strong collaborative and inclusive arts practice working with children and young people, including children with disabilities, to join their Artist Panel as Associate Artists.
Event
Artist Marie Brett’s film Yes, But Do You Care.
In Conversation
Sarah Fuller and Yvonne Cullivan, Artists with Helium Arts, discuss their experiences of working with children and young people through the arts in healthcare settings in Galway.
Event
IMMA presents Marie Brett's new film, Yes, But Do You Care.
News
The artsandhealth.ie emerging artist bursary affords time and space for an early career artist to reflect on their arts and health practice.
News
John Conway is a visual artist working extensively with health-related communities of interest and in healthcare settings.
Event
From mid-June two neighbouring art galleries in Dún Laoghaire and Drogheda present ‘A Collection of Conversations’, a dementia inclusive exhibition.
News
Unmasked, a wall art installation by street artist Asbestos, was recently unveiled at St James’s Hospital in Dublin.
Event
Join us on 28 June for an online conversation exploring arts for children in healthcare contexts.
Event
Helium Arts, the national children's arts and health organisation, is hosting a series of exhibitions across Ireland this summer featuring artworks created by children who participated in Helium's recent spring programme.
Event
The Ballad of a Care Centre is a visual art and audio installation by Kildare artist John Conway which is being exhibited as part of Bealtaine Festival 2022.
News
Arts and health practice often involves engaging with people who are far from home and familiar spaces: encounters by the hospital bedside, in a communal room with others we have never have met, or increasingly in the virtual realm where we try to read each other across a screen of faces.
News
This month’s Spotlight is on the Connolly Collective art group at Connolly Hospital, Blandchardstown.
News
artsandhealth.ie is delighted to announce the recipient of the artsandhealth.ie Documentation Bursary 2017: Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust, visual artist Marielle MacLeman and filmmaker Tom Flanagan for the documentation of the Dialysis Arts Programme at Merlin Park University Hospital, Galway.
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