‘Breastfeeding takes the infant out of poverty for those first few months in order to give the child a fairer start in life’ – UNICEF Executive Director James P.Grant
The Holding Time project is co-designed with researchers, health professionals and mothers, using creative activities to strengthen local communities, and promote pride in place. This eight year old iterative project encourages balanced debate through listening to mothers lived experience via interviews & their own creative writing.
NOV 2022- PRESENT
Bradford
Starting with an exhibition and workshops, the project in Bradford has grown into a city-wide Creative Public Health intervention, with public art yet another new element in what is set to be the biggest project yet…read more
August 2021- 2024
Cheshire & Merseyside
With new creative writing workshops and a new audio tour in Halton, the Cheshire and Merseyside project keeps growing….read more
APRIL 2020-JUNE 2021
Coventry & Warwickshire
Testing the creative writing workshops as part of the project, this lock-down version was where new methods and ideas caught on….read more
SEPT 2017- SEPT 2019
Brighton & Hove
A Bright(on) start gave the project a beginning with support from the AA2A residency, an opportunity to try exhibit in different settings and test a four screen installation..read more
