Our guest for this episode is artist Roger Davison who is exhibiting his work in the Alternative Visions: Undiscovered Art in the South West exhibition which has been touring galleries in the South West during 2017-18.

We talk about school art rooms, studios and sheds as spaces of 'refuge', how art and creativity have been a part of Roger’s life since his childhood in such a way that 'sustains' him, and discuss how he feels about the term 'outsider art'.

Alternative Visions Exhibition information: http://www.outsidein.org.uk/alternative-visions

Remaining tour dates:

- Poole Museum 21st March - 6th May 2018 (http://www.poolemuseum.co.uk/whats-on/future-exhibitions/)

Roger's Outside In online gallery: http://www.outsidein.org.uk/Roger-Davison1

How to join Outside In: http://www.outsidein.org.uk/how-to-register

In this episode I speak to Lizzie Bond from Changing Tunes, about how music can be used to bring a sense of hope and joy into prisons. We talk about the particular challenges of working inside the prison system and how music workshops, performances and professional recordings can be ways to approach some of the life challenges prisoners and ex prisoners face both inside and transitioning.

Changing Tunes Website: www.changingtunes.org.uk

In this episode Colin Bray from Libraries Unlimited and Karen Leach Bowdler from Exeter Library join AHSW Coordinator Hannah Mumby for a conversation about libraries, art and wellbeing. They also discuss BellHouse, an interactive sound sculpture that took up residence at Exeter Library in October 2017. At the end of the episode you can hear a recording of BellHouse in action, and the artist Roop Johnstone talking about how he created it.

www.librariesunlimited.org.uk

www.devon.gov.uk/libraries

www.bellhouseproject.com

www.kaleider.com

This episode is a conversation with Rosie Mead, the director of Musica, and a researcher in the field of Music and Dementia. We talk about running music workshops in care homes, and the research that Rosie has been doing around using live music in hospital settings.

Musica website: www.musica-music.co.uk

This episode of the podcast is the second in a series of highlights from our 2016 Annual Conference. It features a talk from Jayne Howard, former director of Arts for Health Cornwall, entitled "Filling in the gaps - challenges and opportunities for arts and health". In this talk Jayne Howard reflects on her 20 years working in health, then the arts, and then arts and health, in Cornwall, and how her thinking and practice has changed in that time.

This episode of the podcast is the first in a series of highlights from our 2016 Annual Conference, and features animator Emma Lazenby of ForMed Films, a Bristol based animation company, and Dr Jo Black, consultant psychiatrist and regional lead for perinatal mental health services. They discuss their recent collaboration, an animated short film entitled 'My Mum’s Got a Dodgy Brain', and talk through the process of how the film was commissioned by Devon Partnership NHS Trust.

ForMed Films website: http://formedfilms.co.uk

For this episode, Hannah Mumby (Coordinator at AHSW) invites Viv Gordon (a dancer and choreographer with mental health needs who set up Mean Feet Dance) to talk about Mental Health and the Arts.

Mean Feet Dance Website: www.meanfeetdance.co.uk

I am Joan Tour Schedule: www.ahsw.org.uk/diary.aspx?id=1696

Thank you to Lee Rosevere for our theme music, from the Free Music Archive: freemusicarchive.org/music/Lee_Rosevere/

For our first episode of the Arts & Health South West Podcast, Hannah Mumby (Coordinator at AHSW) invites Ruth Gidley (Community Participation officer at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter) to talk about Museums and Wellbeing.

RAMM Website: https://www.rammuseum.org.uk

Thank you to Lee Rosevere for our theme music, from the Free Music Archive: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Lee_Rosevere/