Project Work
Art is a great way to spend time together playing and learning. Under the umbrella of mental health our project work supports people to overcome barriers, fulfil their potential and participate fully in their community.
Psychological wellbeing is improved through education, creative activity and
shared understanding. Absolutely no experience is necessary — only a willingness to participate.
Make sense of your thoughts and do something that is fun and relaxing that boosts wellbeing, and make some great art in the process!
Current Projects
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- Mental Health Project: This is My Space
Mental Health Project: This is My Space
A creative arts project that uses psychological approaches to provide a safe, supportive environment in which you can express your thoughts and ideas.
Past Projects
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- 14-18year olds: Kaleidoscope
- Bloomin Barrels
- Early Projects
- Extraordinarily Ordinary
- Female Autism Project: Looking Through The Window
- Homelessness: BDBC
- Mental Health and Covid19: BDBC
- Probation Project
- Silent Screaming
- Veterans' Project: Looking Through the Window
Bloomin’ Barrels of Fun
Members of artWell and our team have been delighted to partner with Festival Place and Bakehouse Factory in producing the visual art works that are on display on the Upper Floor of Festival Place between 24th July and 30th August 2024. The artworks showcased in this project draw inspiration from the sounds and colours present […]
Mental Health 10 week Short Course for 14-18year olds: Kaleidoscope
Kaleidoscope: Find your voice and understand how to improve your mental wellbeing through the creation of art. Over 10 consecutive weeks this FREE short course for 14-18 year olds combined up to date effective psychological information to improve mental wellbeing with creative activity. Within safe, supportive environments participants learned and practiced effective tools that will […]
Mental Health and Covid19: BDBC
A series of weekly two hour workshops over eight weeks. Each workshop provides practical recovery orientated tools and expressive visual art activities. One workshop in each block will have a guest artist from another discipline.
Homelessness: BDBC
An outreach project that works directly with people who currently experience homelessness. We want to provide a platform through creative achievement where people can create work that is relevant to them.
Female Autism Project: Looking Through the Window
This six month project invites women with or without a formal diagnosis of Autism and who have accessed mental health services, to work alongside artists and each other.
Veterans’ Project: Looking Through the Window
A series of 13 weekly workshops taking place online invited Veterans and their loved ones to participate in shared activities.
Silent Screaming
Through the emotion of fear, we are all connected. This project brought together a group of individuals to look at fear, how it manifests itself and, in the face of our fears, how we behave. During the process, some of this silent fear was released.
Extraordinarily Ordinary
We decided to look at everyday, ordinary things and considered, as a group, what they meant. Inspiration for the name came from a comment made by one of its members.
Probation Project
A psychologically informed creative arts project that invited participants open to the Probation Service to learn to open up creative expression enabling mutual understanding and positive use of the imagination.
Early Projects
We delivered our first project, Alienation and Isolation, in Basingstoke in 2012 with funding from University of Winchester.
