Daniel Regan

Daniel Regan is a visual artist & creative health consultant working across the sector.

For over 20 years he has specialised in the exploration of complex emotional experiences through the arts. His work explores themes of disability, heritage, belonging & what it means to be human.

Daniel creates deeply personal artworks, devises & facilitates socially engaged creative projects and provides consultancy & more across the creative health sector.

In 2015 Daniel founded Arts & Health Hub, a not-for-profit organisation that supports artists and cultural producers that are exploring health, wellbeing and what it means to be human in their creative practice. Previously he worked in an NHS Arts leadership role as the Director of an integrated arts charity in primary care, leading on the development and programming of a large number of arts and health initiatives available to patients.

Daniel is represented by Bethlem Gallery in London and lives and has a studio in south east London.

Marysa Dowling

Marysa Dowling is a London-based artist of Irish descent whose practice centres on human behaviour, relationships, social interaction and co-creation. Working with photography and other media, Marysa develops inter-community and cross-cultural conversations and collaborations. Her practice has been described as thoughtful and playful.

Marysa has cultivated creative initiatives across Cuba, India, Ireland, Lebanon, London, Los Angeles and Mexico. Her recent projects include knowledge-exchange collaborations with researchers from Oxford University’s neuroscience department (2024-25) and researchers from University College London as part of their collaborative art commissioning programme Trellis 3 (2021-22). Other commissions include People Powered, National Portrait Gallery (2022) and Paper Gift, GOSH Arts (2022). As an arts educator, she has been in residence at ITESO University Mexico (2017- 2024) and has led workshops and courses at The Courtauld (2010-present) The National Portrait Gallery (2008-24) and The Photographers Gallery (2015-20), among others. Marysa is a recipient of an Arts Council England artist grant (2023) and was a winner of British Journal of Photography’s Portrait of Britain (2022). Her work has been exhibited at Belfast Exposed, El Museo De Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey (Mexico), Korea International Photo Festival, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the National Portrait Gallery, Tate Modern, The Photographers Gallery and is in the permanent collection at the National Portrait Gallery.

Arji Manuelpillai

Arji is a poet, performer and facilitator. 

For over 15 years Arji has worked with community arts projects nationally and internationally. This has given him the privilege of working with some of the world’s most interesting people. In everywhere from prisons and Immigration Removal Centres to schools and youth clubs Arji has continued to push creativity and self expression. 

In recent years he has worked for organisations including The Young Vic, The Southbank Centre, The Barbican and The Roundhouse. Arji's strengths lie in his ability to connect with people from all walks of life, to empathise and build lasting bonds. 

Arji prides himself on his ability to inspire and encourage self-expression using an array of games and exercises built up over years working with Drama, Storytelling, Music and Creative writing. 

He believes every art form has its benefits and advocates for the power of the arts to strengthen relationships in communities across the world.

As well as being a passionate creative facilitator Arji is a published poet. His debut collection ‘Improvised Explosive Device’ was shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize, was noted in The Telegraph’s Top 20 poetry books of the year, as well as in The Guardian’s best recent poetry section. It was also the Winter PBS selection.

Sarah Christie

Sarah Christie is a London-based artist, writer and educator. Her embodied practice uses clay as a primary, and primal, material for sensing, thinking, moving and making with. She invites correspondence and collaboration with other people, places, forms and materials, to create work that may be impermanent, interdisciplinary, slow-growing and cyclical. This ‘call-and-response’ approach aims to allow uncertainty and create space for unexpected outcomes to emerge.

Sarah has exhibited in group and solo exhibitions in the UK and internationally, including at London’s Southwark Cathedral, OVADA in Oxford, British Ceramics Biennial, and Industry City, Brooklyn, New York. Her writing has been published in the Journal of Australian Ceramics, online zine ‘What About Clay?’ and in fellow artists’ exhibition catalogues. She teaches at Central Saint Martins, UAL, and has been a visiting artist at Imperial College London.

Wendy French 

Wendy was head of a school in a psychiatric hospital. She ran an arts-based curriculum believing in the arts as a way to help young people with their chaotic existence. She has worked in the community with Croydon adult services and Surrey libraries. She now co-runs groups with Audrey Arden-Jones at the Maggie’s Centre at the Royal Marsden and runs sessions for Ovacome, an Ovarian Charity for cancer.

She has two pamphlets and four poetry books published and has edited, with a co-editor, three books of young people’s poetry from hospital schools. She believes in the power of the word to help in difficult emotional situations.

She co-edited with Prof Donald Singer and Prof Michael Hulse two books published by Hippocrates press, ‘The Hippocrates Book of the Heart’ and ‘The Hippocrates Book of the Brain.’

EM Forster said, ‘How do I know what I feel until I see it written down?’