Art in Healthcare

Transforming Scottish healthcare with art

Dementia Friendly Tour of our Exhibition

BTO Solicitors LLP supported Art in Healthcare to present a dementia friendly tour of our recent fundraising exhibition….

Still time to purchase from our exhibition

Download a copy of our catalogue here….

Art workshops at the Botanics

Free art workshops linked to the Lost Words exhibition at Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Two of the workshops will be dementia friendly. With many thanks to our sponsor GreatArt for enabling us to present these workshops….

Weekly art workshop programme for people who are HIV+

Weekly art workshop programme for people who are HIV+ starts in Motherwell Sat 21 April. Contact Art in Healthcare if you or someone you know is HIV+ and want to get involved. No art experience necessary….

What are cultural needs and how do they relate to health and care needs?

It may be useful to understand the strategic importance of culture for Scotland by considering the concept of cultural needs. This submission argues that every individual has cultural needs and that these needs can be satisfied in a range of ways including engagement with the arts….

Making Room for Art

Our Outreach Manager Iona McCann tells us more about our Big Lottery Funded project ROOM FOR ART which is a series of visual arts workshops delivered throughout Edinburgh using a social prescribing approach….

How art can address health inequalities

CROSS PARTY GROUP ON HEALTH INEQUALITIES, 7th DEC 2017 MARGARET O’CONNOR, CHIEF EXECUTIVE, ART IN HEALTHCARE I’m going to talk about the health…

Give As You Live

Christmas shopping online this year? You can also raise funds for Art in Healthcare, and here’s how….

Internship Experience at Art in Healthcare

Thank you to Alice Coulson for guest blogging about her experiences of working with Art in Healthcare as an intern from the University of Edinburgh….

All the Wonderful Things Exhibition Overview

A summary of the successes from Art in Healthcare’s June 2016 exhibition at Gayfield Creative Spaces supported by leading Scottish law firm BTO Solicitors LLP….

Reflections on Leaving Art in Healthcare

Having decided it is time to move on from Art in Healthcare, Amelia reflects on a significant period of learning and recalls the development of the charity since she joined 5 years ago….

Artists and Patients Transform Rohallion Psychiatric Ward

Vanessa Magnone writes as an intern in Art in Healthcare and as an undergraduate student studying psychology and neuroscience:…