Sewing yourself back together
Free-hand embroidery based on exploration of alternative therapies to support post-natal depression.
Living with Genetic Diseases
Living with genetic conditions: identity and self-worth through the metaphor of a child’s experience of society and lack of agency
Beyond Physical Boundaries
The significance of giving space to the unknown in consultations
Under the Iceberg
Individual barriers to seeking clinical help
So you say I can’t do GCSE PE? Well now I’m a Paralympian.
A home visit brings insight into the role of family and societal attitudes around visual impairment
Sweat, Blood and Tears
A student’s personal experience of living with diabetes
Autism, art and animals
The positive impact of animal companions and the arts for children with autism
Who says graffiti isn’t art
Musings on a commonly held misconception
Resilience in the siblings of disabled children
An insider perspective around disability within the family unit contextualized through current research
Crumpled Sheets
A multi-sensory embodiment of depression
Hope
The determination of a mother to ensure her son’s survival following a motor-cycle accident
Healing power of prayer
The role of faith in well-being under multi-perspectives scrutiny
My mind is not my own
A visual and audio interpretation of the impact of a stroke on a particular patient based on his detailed embodied descriptions
Life… injecting it or sucking it away?
The struggle to break the cycle of addiction explored
Anti Mnemonist
Three intersecting graphic perspectives based on living with dementia and the underlying creative process
Long Dark Tunnel
Image from the perspective of a elderly patient whose world is rapidly shrinking due to anxiety about her infirmity
The Struggle
The tension between the will to thrive and a body cumulatively challenged by ill-health
Pseudo Life
A carer places her considerable health issues at one remove despite her GP’s concerns
Life-Line
A GP provides timely support to a patient with addiction
Eat Less
The notion that obesity is a self-inflicted is scrutinized after a home visit.
Art in Medicine
The role of portraiture within healing.
The Knot
An analysis of the impact of alcoholism and drug abuse upon the individual, their family and professionals involved
Fragmented Identity
A stark portrayal of identity-construction post-stroke
Feeble, Precarious, Existence
A doctor’s perspective whilst dying of heart disease – empty bed and candles
Climate Transformation and Health Deterioration
Global health and socio-emotional impact on already burdened communities.
Wave
Experimentation with vibrant colours, inspired by the ocean
Doctors in the Movies
A humorous comparison between historical and contemporary models of consultation and home-visit
Touch
A dying elderly man being comforted by his wife at his hospital bedside – discussion around withholding further medical intervention
We Do Not Yet See Clearly But Hope is Gold
An evocative narrative, taking a universal approach to explore the role of hope within terminal illness
Paranoia
Figures carrying ‘secret’ health issues
The Window to the Patient
A celebration of the uniqueness of each individual
Postnatal Depression
Powerful image and poem describing the agonizing physical and emotional impact of a traumatic childbirth
The Empathetic Doctor
Composite figure questioning assumptions and identification from cultural/social/gendered/racial and ageist perspectives
It’s all in the genes
A family’s challenges around the acceptance and perceptions of their daughter living with Downs Syndrome
Practise What You Preach
The hypocrisy of an authoritarian doctor with life-style issues lecturing on well-being
Helping Hands
Institutionalization and learned helplessness in hospital
U.B.H.T Lost Property
A hospital-gowned patient at hospital desk – seeking his identity
Life?
Concern regarding holistic care – review of a cocktail of medications and patient’s well-being and happiness in general
Caterpillar to Butterfly
Thoughts on how medical education is a form of ‘metamorphosis’
Tolerant Farmer
A stoic farmer reluctant to visit his G.P.
The Snowman
Doctor-snowman made in response to wishes of a terminally-ill patient on a home-visit
Targets
Humorous response to government guidelines in general practice