Creative Families is a series of artist-led projects which explores the relationship of parenting to wellbeing.
Since 2013 Creative Families has worked directly with local families to promote well-being, as well as critically explore ideas that shape notions of contemporary parenting, through socially-engaged art. It is an early-intervention programme developed in partnership with Southwark’s Parental Mental Health Team to work with parents experiencing mental health difficulties, and their children.
The Creative Families 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
Ella Phillips
Gayle Chong Kwan