The Art Therapies Unit (ATU) offers a range of both formal and informal services.
And while our formal one-to-one art therapy is by referral only - usually through a GP or through your care coordinator - our informal Art Room facilities are open and available every day (except Sundays and Mondays) to Recovery Centre members.
We provide a variety of art and craft materials for members to express themselves through therapeutic creativity. We also offer a variety of open (as well as limited access) workshops on Mondays and Wednesdays.
For our informal services, the Recovery Centre does accept self-referrals: However, due to a high level of demand, we’re not accepting any new self-referrals at the moment. Please check with us again next month for further information about the self-referral process.
Amongst our ATU's current activities, the Witch Star project is being coordinated by community support workers Dan Ronson and Sharon Watney.
Some of the Witch Star project's participants (like Alfie Dovedale) are being detained in Merrydown Park Hospital under a section of the Mental Health Act. Some (like Stephen Morris) are choosing to live in the community - in private lodgings or in supported accommodation. And some (like Tsam Cамиздат) are living on the streets.
Periodically, those project participants are mounting exhibitions of their art - from which much is being auctioned to fund the making & sale of a film about conceptual art, which they’ve been promising to make since February 1985.