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Category: Issue 2 – Mental Illness, Health and Recovery

Artist Michelle Morgan
February 2, 2016February 2, 2016ArtSavesLives Charlotte Farhan

ASLI Monthly Featured Artist – Michelle Morgan: talking art, mental health, shame and how to create change.

October 28, 2015October 28, 2015ArtSavesLives Charlotte Farhan

Editor’s Letter – Issue 2 – Mental Illness, Health and Recovery

October 5, 2015October 5, 2015ArtSavesLives Charlotte Farhan

Debs Carter wants to help women share their stories with one another, as she has about her struggles with depression, connecting each other through her amazing organisation The Touch Network.

September 28, 2015October 5, 2015hamad1981

Visual Artist Mark Lloyd says “Art can provide an avenue for self-expression, Art can enable us to realise the truth, art can provide hope and wonder, elements that can provoke change and save lives”.

September 28, 2015September 28, 2015hamad1981

Illustrator, animator and writer Andreea Stan says art saves lives “There were situations when I felt that my art was the only thing I had and it kept me going, it didn’t let me give up”.

September 28, 2015September 28, 2015hamad1981

Denny Reader talks to ASLI about his schizophrenia and using his creativity, saying “Its gives me a purpose and a platform to share my ideas and myself with the world around me”.

September 22, 2015September 22, 2015ArtSavesLives Charlotte Farhan

Indian visual artist Sravanthi Juluri speaks to ASLI, “my work has been a major source of healing in my life. I never thought my art could actually help women in distress to come out in the open about the abuse they have faced and open up a platform to raise our voices and say no to violence against women”.

September 21, 2015September 28, 2015ArtSavesLives Charlotte Farhan

Musician and composer Shell Dooley speaks about music as therapy “I think creative expression is one of the best forms of therapy. It gives an individual a chance to communicate feelings that may not be able to come out in other forms. It can also be very calming and provide a focus and stability”.

September 21, 2015September 21, 2015ArtSavesLives Charlotte Farhan

Writer and poet Janeen Pergrin Rastall speaks to ASLI “I believe that creative work can inspire people to endure, to have hope and to express their dreams and despairs in a positive way”.

September 19, 2015September 19, 2015ArtSavesLives Charlotte Farhan

ASLI Team member and artist Lisa Reeve talks about having mental illness and using art, “I find art a less threatening way to articulate my thoughts and feelings, it is great therapy and gives me a sense of achievement and productivity”.

September 18, 2015September 18, 2015hamad1981

Joyce Savage is on a mission to end stigma associated with BPD (Borderline Personality Disorder) and uses poetry to manage her own mental health.

September 15, 2015September 15, 2015ArtSavesLives Charlotte Farhan

Andrea Ballance is a survivor of the Buddhist group NKT and tells ASLI “I have lived through PTSD and RT (religious trauma). I feel that I have something to say that can help people. I feel art in all its facets has an important role to play in an individual’s health and the health of our whole society”.

September 14, 2015September 14, 2015ArtSavesLives Charlotte Farhan

Esi Yankey speaks to ASLI about domestic violence and PTSD and says “I am firmly committed to speaking up on topics that too many people remain silent on.”

September 7, 2015September 7, 2015hamad1981

Artist Jessica Caudery “Writing, painting and drawing directly and indirectly became a way to express my emotions. It is difficult to say to what extent art has saved my life but it has been a constant positive, something which has perhaps kept me afloat during times of stress, anxiety and mild depression”.

September 2, 2015September 2, 2015ArtSavesLives Charlotte Farhan

ASLI Artist Louise Tomkinson states: “to me, “art saves lives” means having the power to use the language of art, as art is strong enough to pull someone back from the brink, therefore becoming the voice which enables art to create change”.

September 1, 2015September 1, 2015ArtSavesLives Charlotte Farhan

Youth, mental illness and discrimination. A theoretical approach By Becky Saunders

September 1, 2015September 2, 2015ArtSavesLives Charlotte Farhan

ASLI Team Member Becky Saunders “My journey in a nutshell” – Mental Illness, Health and Recovery

September 1, 2015September 1, 2015hamad1981

Visual Artist Lynn Excell speaks about grief, depression and staying creative: “‘Art Saves Lives’ to me, means that art is a way of helping to heal us when we are broken”.

September 1, 2015September 1, 2015ArtSavesLives Charlotte Farhan

ASLI Speak to Artist Mistresslisa Taylor about mental health and art in which she states, “Hand on my heart, art has saved my life. Without it I would be dead”.

September 1, 2015September 1, 2015ArtSavesLives Charlotte Farhan

Artist Jade Bryant is fiercely tackling her mental illness with art and in the process is changing the world’s awareness of Borderline Personality Disorder and Antisocial Personality Disorder.

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