a printable worksheet to support our planning for a dream 2024. Split into quarters, this exercise is gentle, yet focused, and of course, uses mindful design and line & honey illustration to inspire along the way. There is room to focus on the language you use to describe yourself, and the ways you want to show up for yourself each season.
a dream project that is a true culmination of my duality - an illustrated wellness journal with exercises, prompts and reflections inspired by my clinical mental health work, complimented with illustrations that nod to rest, resistance and duality. a representation of me bringing the layer of me together, and encouraging you to do the same.
designing an impactful mental health awareness session at leeds university
in july 2023, I delivered a participatory workshop at the BME ECR Conference exploring how to maintain wellness and self-care in work environments, such as higher education institutes where staff teams are often homogenous. Centering art references and a preventative, supportive approach to radical self-care, I combined an evidence-based with space to explore and learn what works for each individual, through community conversation.
on recovery, and it's place in academia for staff of colour
using publication as a participatory action research method, the discussions and explorations that came out of a workshop have been designed within a publication to encourage reflection, re-reflection and possibly action. the aim was to consider the complexity of HE for staff of colour, and to consider how our understandings of recovery might apply.
intersecting voices of wellness vs. rawness in
illustration (2020) - journal of illustration
I present wellness in illustration, the origins of both black illustrators communicating through their work alongside how black people are represented in illustration. This uncovers societal cultural preference, authenticity and overarchingly, the question of who decides our narratives.Co-authored with Jhinuk Sarkar.
mental health + wellbeing: resources, research and links
this resource was created specifically for those at the intersection of being black and being a creative. it focuses on themes such as advocating for your mental health and dealing with creative briefs
illustration and mental health conference - University of Worcester (2019)
An interactive workshop co-run with Jhinuk Sarkar on the inclusion of mental health and disability in illustration, from our perspective as women of colour, illustrators and mental health practitioners.
exploring the characteristics and neural features of
hallucinations 'transdiagnositcally' (2018)
Postgraduate thesis talk, summarising my research into the neurological and phenomenological presentation of hallucinations across both psychiatric illnesses and organic physical health illnesses - a lot to be learnt about big data and how it apples to our understanding of health and treatment.
