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Daniel Regan

Daniel Regan is a visual artist & Creative Health expert working across the sector in the UK, based in London.

Daniel is a visual artist specialising in the exploration of complex and difficult emotional experiences, focusing on the transformational impact of arts on mental health, building on his own lived experiences. Over the last 20 years his own photographic works have brokered dialogues around taboo topics such as mental health, grief, self injury, suicide and racism. As a part of his creative practice he shoots commissions, produces and delivers socially engaged projects and provides consultancy on Creative Health work. Daniel regularly exhibits and speaks at events across fine art, educational and clinical institutions in the UK and worldwide, alongside teaching at both art and medical institutions.

In 2015 Daniel founded the 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. Through his work supporting other artists Daniel is deeply driven by how we support those with lived experience of illness to safely make both personal and participatory works, and he is passionate about ecosystems of care within the Creative Health sector.

From 2016-2021 Daniel worked in primary care as the Artistic Director of Creative Health Camden, a pioneering arts and wellbeing charity embedded into the NHS. Daniel led on the strategic development and programming of a large number of arts and health initiatives available to over 30,000 patients.

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

https://www.danielregan.photography

https://www.artsandhealthhub.org

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https://www.inspirethemind.org/post/taking-part-in-melbourne-s-big-anxiety-festival