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Visual Arts and Wellbeing Engage 39 engage 39 the international journal of visual art and gallery education Visual Arts and Wellbeing engage 39 Spring 2017 Inviting contributions Contributions are regularly invited on a range of Editor themes, visit www.engage.org/journal Barbara Dougan for details. Editorial Advisory Board Write to the editor at: Lawrence Bradby / Juliette Buss / Sarah Campbell engage, Rich Mix, Annie Davey / Penny Jones / Claire Robins 35–47 Bethnal Green Road, Veronica Sekules / Jane Sillis / Miranda Stearn London E1 6LA Michael Tooby T: +44 (0) 20 7729 5858 International Advisory Board F: +44 (0) 20 7739 3688 Stina Hodgkvist / Maeve Mulrennan E: [email protected] Claude Forteau / Gavin Jantjes Cover image: Declan McGonagle / Ken Robinson Rachel Cherry Proofreading Image on facing page: Jessica Akerman Laura Aquilina, One Magnificent City, 2015, Digital Video, Bluecoat, Liverpool Contents 4 Foreword 55 Heather Kay 98 Rachel Cherry Jane Sillis Reports, data, trust Movement and Director, engage and relationships photography: an artistic collaboration 6 Editor’s Introduction 62 Sharon Paulger in sheltered housing Barbara Dougan A new perspective 104 Helen O’Donoghue 17 Amber Walls and 64 Chris Kelly and Marie Brett Asha Munn Practice makes research, No it’s not me… Creativity, connection makes better practice: that’s not me… and soul joy: postcards participatory visual arts as from the land of the long a therapeutic inpatient 112 Niki Colclough and white cloud rehabilitation intervention Elizabeth Weiwiora for stroke How can we develop 28 Louise Thompson arts and health practice? Manchester Art Gallery: 74 Josie Vallely An artist and curator in The Mindful Museum Health as narrative: conversation Using visual language to 33 Lucy Medhurst move beyond binaries of 118 Anna Croucher Better futures in visual arts health and ill health ‘Now I use colours not pills and wellbeing to calm me down’. An NHS 81 Marjolein Gysels, 46 Lyn French, Shiraz community-based gallery Hélène de Koekkoek Bayjoo, Camilla that embraces the concept and Marthe de Vet Waldburg and Prue of mental health recovery Stimulating the positive Barnes-Kemp health of older adults 124 Becky Waite The making of meaning: through the Art Makes Blue Room: Inclusive arts Bringing together applied Man outreach programme at Bluecoat psychoanalytic thinking and the visual arts to 91 Jayne Howard 130 Contributors’ details support emotional and Something remains for mental wellbeing us to do or dare: cultural entitlement in older age 4 Foreword 5 Jane Sillis Director, engage This journal focuses on wellbeing and the “Projects like this make carers last longer!” contribution that engagement in the visual While a project participant with mental ill health arts makes to the wellbeing of communities. issues reported, Articles explore interventions, which support people whose wellbeing has been compromised “It was a major self-esteem boost for us.” by their circumstances, by ageing, physical or A similar story is told in articles in this Journal. Jayne mental illness, for example. This is a timely Howard describes older people enjoying engaging moment to explore this important issue with with contemporary art in a project ran in partnership the UK All Party Parliamentary Group for Arts, with The Exchange, Penzance, and Heather Kay, Health and Wellbeing due to report later in 2017. South London Gallery, shares evaluation from a Since 2009, engage Cymru have developed an successful arts programme for parents with mental impressive range of projects, which prioritises the health issues who have young children. wellbeing of participants and has set up a thriving engage Cymru initiated an arts and health network arts, health and wellbeing network. This work echoes in 2013. The network now has more than 80 the concern of both the Welsh Government and Arts members, artists, arts organisations, health Council of Wales to support health and wellbeing professionals, local authorities, higher education through the arts. engage Cymru initiatives have institutions and health boards. As a consequence included working with socially isolated older people of the network, a Cross Party Group for Arts and and their carers, and people with mental illness Health in Wales has been established, championed working with art and artists. The benefits of the by Arts Council of Wales and the Welsh programmes for participants has been notable; a Government. The arts, health and wellbeing carer for an older person with dementia commented, network have also shared expertise across the arts 4 5 and health sectors through a toolkit created with seed funding from Artwork Cymru on artists working in hospitals. In February the engage team had a wellbeing week, where we reflected on wellbeing in the workplace and tried out some of the techniques described in journal articles, such as mindfulness. The week was a great reminder of how important it is to take care of both our own and our colleagues’ wellbeing, as well as the value of initiating projects that support others. 6 Editor’s introduction 7 Barbara Dougan ‘Well-being refers to positive and sustainable example, a 2009 study by German sociologists characteristics, which enable individuals and showed that the lifting of hundreds of millions organisations to thrive and flourish.’ of people out of poverty in the 1990s has been http://cambridgewellbeing.org accompanied by an alarming decrease in life satisfaction at every level of income, in both Wellbeing should be an obvious aim for human rural and urban areas. and societal development but has been neglected in many countries for centuries, in an unequal battle In ‘The Politics of Happiness’, law professor Derek for economic development and the pursuit of Bok, a former Harvard president, argues that it is material wealth. time to rethink the goal of politics: to promote well- being rather than wealth. His appeal that this is both In Nature: international weekly journal of science, necessary and timely rests on two key points: first, the Director of the Well-being Institute, University of that there is an increasingly solid body of evidence Cambridge, reviews Derek Bok’s book on the about the causes of happiness and its individual, politics of happiness published in 2010 http:// social and environmental benefits; and second, that www.nature.com/nature/journal/v464/n7293/ most people are unaware of and need education full/4641275a.html and states, about what will give them lasting satisfaction. ‘It has long been assumed that economic prosperity Happiness is a legitimate goal for government policy, brings happiness. However, the evidence is to the Bok argues, because it is more than a private, contrary. Economic growth in developed countries transient feeling. Lasting happiness – well-being or has gone hand-in-hand with a rise in mental and ‘flourishing’ – depends on the ongoing process of behavioural disorders, family breakdown, social how we live our lives. Well-being encompasses close exclusion and diminished social trust. In China, for relationships, utilising our strengths, helping others, 6 7 having a sense of purpose and believing that what Gross Domestic Happiness we do makes a difference. Hence the pursuit of Product Index lasting happiness can lead to the development USA 1st 25th of more productive, cohesive, caring and sustainable societies.’ China 2nd 30th Governments and international agencies are Japan 3rd 24th increasingly engaged with notions of wellbeing Germany 4th 15th and happiness. Many national policy-makers have begun to recognise that measuring a nation’s UK 5th 20th success by traditional economic values alone no longer suffices and that we need also urgently to As far as the happiest countries in the world understand how people experience the quality of are concerned, Switzerland came out top in the their lives. latest survey because of its high employment, It is sobering that, as Walls and Munn remind us in excellent public services, high levels of public their article, as long ago as 1946 the World Health participation in major decisions and its beautiful, Organisation declared that ‘Health is a state of pristine environment. complete physical, mental and social well-being It is followed by Iceland, Denmark, Norway, Canada, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity’ Finland, Netherlands, Sweden, New Zealand, and that progress appears to be so slow (WHO, Australia. It is interesting that these are nearly all 1946). small countries with small populations in regard It wasn’t until 2012 that the fomer Secretary-General to their land mass. People have room to breathe. of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon persuaded the Progress is slow partly because shifting from an United Nations to accept that this approach to the economic understanding of progress to a more health of nations is a valuable tool, and for the holistic approach is much easier said than done. past five years this organisation has produced a Gross domestic product is relatively capable of happiness index http://worldhappiness.report/ measurement in the sense that we are dealing with ed/2016/, which often gives a different reading things – goods and services produced by a country of a country’s performance from the ubiquitous in a period of time, usually a year, and then divided gross domestic product measure, as this table by the population to reach output per person and demonstrates: levels of productivity. 8 9 By contrast, how do we measure wellbeing, not to The opposition between economic prosperity and say happiness? happiness or wellbeing seen in the ‘developed’ world, and the distinction between individual and In 2015, in the UK, the New Economics Foundation collective wellbeing, ‘a western world-view based set out five goals for government in order to on the individual, versus an indigenous worldview increase the happiness of individuals. They are based on community, collectivity and connectivity’ 1 secure, well-paid employment; high levels of life would be anathema to many supposedly less satisfaction; a congenial environment - free from sophisticated societies.
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