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We were asked to deliver a visual art Play Day, so we brought along all our materials and created temporary sculptures.

Since September 2021 we have been involved with this Leeds Beckett University research project.

We've been working with librarians in Leeds, Wakefield and Kirklees to create bespoke creative activities for local libraries.

Gayle Lofthouse's BBC Radio Leeds show was a live on location Art Doctor special at ChapelFM on 21st July!

Left Coast in Blackpool asked us to bring some creative fun to a community meeting.

Wouldn't it be great if art galleries designed Art Trails for adults? Playful ways to engage with and make your own sense of the work...

Fun on the radio! We do silly creative things with Gayle Lofthouse on BBC Radio Leeds on the last Thursday of every month at around 12.15pm.

The Art Doctors social prescribing film that we've been working on over the past six months is now live and out there on the internet!

We were fascinated by the connection between our gut and our mental health, so we built a SUPER GUT of microbes.

We've been wearing Art Specs and Slippers, finding places to sleep, writing stories, making mini-sculptures and listening to music.

We're excited to announce that we're the arts partner on a successful bid to the Thriving Communities Fund, for a project led by Space 2.

Lockdown Two! We decided to get together on Zoom for Art Brunch – toast, coffee, chit-chat and a bit of drawing, painting or making.

A creative prescription project with healthcare professionals exploring the impact of creativity on their mental health and wellbeing.

During COVID lockdown we met online to be silly together, creating 15 short films along the way.

We teamed up with Thackray's Emergency Museum to prescribe creative activities at Kirkstall Festival.

Who's Afraid of Contemporary Art? explored what contemporary art meant to people what barriers they might experience in engaging with it.

We set up an Art Doctor Clinic at Chapel Allerton Arts Festival and prescribed creative activities for people to take part in.

Art Doctors prescribe 2 minutes of focussed looking at art!

This blog was originally published in Engage magazine