Creative Families is a series of artist-led projects which explores the relationship of parenting to well-being.
Through working directly with local families, it aims to promote well-being as well as critically explore some of the ideas that shape notions of contemporary parenting through the medium of socially-engaged art practice. It is an early-intervention programme developed in partnership with Southwark’s Parental Mental Health Team and four local Children’s Centres: Grove, Crawford, Ann Bernadt and 1st Place, to work with parents experiencing mental health difficulties, and their children.
The pilot programme ran from 2013 to 2014 and was funded by Guys and St Thomas Charity. Research findings from this first phase of the project were made public through an innovative partnership between the Centre for Parent and Child Support (South London and Maudsley), and Goldsmiths University’s Centre for Urban Community Research, through annual conferences and reports. The final report, Making it Together, is available to download here.
Creative Families workshop, photo: Davina Drummond
Over the course of the programme so far, we have worked with artists:
Lawrence Bradby, of Townley and Bradby
Judith Brocklehurst
Davina Drummond in collaboration with Yara El-Sherbini
Oriana Fox
Daniel Lehan
Albert Potrony
Jessica Scott
Mai Omer
The project was supported by Guys and St Thomas Charity