The Big Anxiety

2022

Across October 2022 I delivered a programme of work as part of The Big Anxiety Festival, Australia’s biggest arts and mental health festival. This included:

• Delivering a series of photography and mental health workshops at Warburton Arts Centre, focusing on how we can use photography to be more present.

• Delivering a workshop for artists at Burrinja Cultural Centre, focusing on how to develop and devise arts and mental health projects whilst considering our own care.

• Facilitating a long table discussion on suicide.

• Participating in 2 days of Awkward Conversations, an opportunity for members of the public to have one-on-one conversations with myself exploring mental health, through the use of images.

• Participating in a panel discussion at The Capitol Theatre, Brain Storms: Creativity & Mental Health, with: Stéphanie Kabanyana Kanyandekwe, Honor Eastly and Sally Hepworth.

• Screening my film, to bloom, and then leading a workshop on writing stories of loss. Participants were then invited back the following day to contribute to a collaborative film, Stories of Loss, sharing their own experiences. Watch the film below.

This opportunity was funded by Arts Council England and The Big Anxiety. You can read more about my experience in Naarm/Melbourne my article for Inspire the Mind.