Thahmina Begum, Artist-Researcher and Art Psychotherapist at Sheffield Hallam University, reflects on her experiences in creative health.
Thahmina Begum is an Artist and Art Psychotherapist, she is a Researcher Sheffield Hallam University investigating Creative Health. She been part of many conversations propelling the creative health landscape forward and she sits as co-chair at the Culture Health and Wellbeing Alliance.
Back in July Thahmina Begum talked to Laura Bailey about her twenty-year journey working at the intersection of arts, art therapy and community development across clinical spaces and the voluntary sector. Reflecting on her personal journey and experience of working within the creative health space, both as an artist/ arts therapist and through to founding several grassroots community projects, Thahmina reflects on her experience towards making creative health spaces safer as well as offering a vision for how art can be embedded in health services in the future.
Thahmina also sat on the on the Anti Racism and Ethnic Diversity in Creative Health panel held by the NCCH in July 2024. An overview of this session can be found on the NCCH site https://ncch.org.uk/blog/anti-racism-and-ethnic-diversity-in-creative-health
Thahmina, recently presented in Rio, Brazil at the Global South Arts and Health International Conference. Speaking about the vital work of infrastructure organisations like Culture, Health and Wellbeing Alliance in Creative Health. She also chaired a panel discussion ‘Art in times of crisis- Hope and Healing from Community of Practise’ with professionals from around the world, exploring current geo political issues affecting the landscape of creative health.
