ART IN PRACTICE:
COLLECTIVE CREATION

16. October 2024 - May 2025
Killick Street Health Centre, N1 9RH London

This exhibition responds to the unique spatial and social conditions of the GP surgery in Killick Street, Islington London.

By integrating art into this medical environment, we extend the practice`s mission of community outreach and bringing together emerging artists with different local community groups to find together an artistic language for different facets of wellbeing. Or to say it in the words of Bobbi, an Artbox artist: „I wanted to brighten up the GP waiting room, make everyone happy and not worry!“

By mayking practical connections between professional artists and the GP community, people with dementia or neurodiversity, younger and older people - we promote understanding, awareness and de-stigmatisation of marginalised. This exhibition aims to activate and involve the local neighborhood, celebrate their talents and combat stigmatization.

Co-curated by Hannah Imhoff and Simon Hodgkinson
Hosted by Dr Polly Wootton, Killick Street Health Centre

VIDEO DOCUMENTATION

Documentation Video of Art in Practice: Collective Creations, 2024 by Koji Kashiwa and Rachel Gibson

ARTISTS & COMMUNITIES

Artbox London, Alexandra Tidswell collaborating with 27 artists with learning disabilities and autism
to create two colorful hangings called Colour Curtain, 2024.

Claremont Project where 14 artists aged 55+ facilitated by Martine Charambolou collaborated to
create an appliqué titled Photos in the Attic, 2024, based on sepia photographs from their parents‘ era.

Global Generation where four young artists co-created with Nina Oltarzewska an installation of sculpture, sound and writing entitled Some Things are Always Free, 2024, facilitated by Laura Price and Jaime Lock.

Muriel Street Care Home where Richard Cook and Monika Drabot collaborated with 20 artists with
cognitive difficulties, including dementia, to create an multi-media installation called Birdsong, 2024,
facilitated by Pooja Tanwar.

Patients from Killick Street Health Centre will participate in Before and After, 2024 by creating artistic
impressions of their visits to the clinic during the show, coordinated by Ruben Pinhal.

During the opening will be a Dance Performance by Jiarong Yu, dancer at the Neverland Space Theate
to celebrate the artworks.

For more detailed information on all the artists and artworks exhibited,
please have a look at the Art in Practice: Collective Creations press release.