Creative Health Camden

Creative Health Camden Creative Health Camden is a pioneering charity supporting arts and community initiatives within Kentish Town Health Centre in north London.

We work at the intersection of community, health and the arts, engaging with creative and social activities. The Free Space Project is an arts and well-being charity providing arts activities, therapies, exhibitions and residencies across two NHS sites in north London. Established in 2010, our aim is to relieve mental and physical suffering through the use of the arts.

Gearing up for our upcoming exhibition ‘Noah of the Zoa’...👁️‘NOAH OF THE ZOA’Exhibition by George Harding .dageezaJUNE ...
03/06/2026

Gearing up for our upcoming exhibition ‘Noah of the Zoa’...👁️

‘NOAH OF THE ZOA’
Exhibition by George Harding .dageeza

JUNE 2026 - OCTOBER 2026
PRIVATE VIEW: 11TH JUNE (18:30 - 20:30)

In his depiction of these inner archetypes, Harding calls upon kings, jokers, fathers, and broken figures. Using painted gestures and colour to offer symbolism, Harding’s archetypes don the recurring motif of the crown.

An emblem of power, divinity, and self-realisation, the crown shows the self moving from fragmentation toward wholeness. A self no longer divided, but strengthened through the embrace and integration of its fractured parts.

‘Noah of the Zoa’ is a testament to the nature of our inner states and the therapeutic power that comes with acceptance and exploration. It is a creative culmination, where new forms of emotional being are constantly changing and developing.

📍For more information and to join our Private View on 11th JUNE, visit our link in bio

During our time at Brecknock & Torriano Schools' Inclusion Festival 2026, Creative Health Camden was able to exhibit 'Pa...
27/05/2026

During our time at Brecknock & Torriano Schools' Inclusion Festival 2026, Creative Health Camden was able to exhibit 'Patchwork of Experience' - a community-orientated, empowering piece dedicated to the experience of SEND (Special Education Needs & Disabilities) children and families - made by SEND children and families themselves 🤝🌟

'Patchwork of Experience' mirrors its title - a patchwork of diverse, enlightening and honest expressions speaking to SEND experiences.

Here are some detailed images of each felted panel, hand-stitched together, united in education, advocacy and celebration. Thank you to the makers of 'Patchwork of Experience' and to the Inclusion Festival for allowing us to share it 🌈

Episode 5 of the Creative Health Camden Podcast has arrived. In this episode, we welcome our exhibiting artist Carli Adb...
27/05/2026

Episode 5 of the Creative Health Camden Podcast has arrived. In this episode, we welcome our exhibiting artist Carli Adby-Notley

Carli Adby-Notley’s practice is rooted in feminist thinking and grounded in lived experience, continually exploring questions of self hood and the performance of Gender. More recently, it adopts a heavily research-based approach, challenging the medicalisation of the “female” body and ageing, particularly when, for the most part, we are considered reproductive or maternal by default.

Working in the intersections between photography, contemporary art, health, feminist research and lived experience; Carli uses the language of the body to question how women are seen, spoken about and treated. Across these projects runs a sense of reclamation: an attention to the continuity and fragility of women’s experience, the language and legacy of medicine and motherhood, and the ways our bodies hold memory, trauma, resilience and invite conjecture.

'Inherited Bodies' is a semi-retrospective exhibition by Carli Adby, with photographic, archival, and experimental works exploring how women’s health — and the language that surrounds it — is experienced, represented, and inherited.

Grounded in lived experiences of PCOS (Polycystic O***y Syndrome), POI (Premature Ovarian Insufficiency), Menopause and severe PMDD (Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder) - ‘Inherited Bodies’ questions who determines and defines what is “normal” or “dysfunctional”.

🎧 You can listen to the full episode by visiting Spotify, our website or click the link in bio!

📍Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5CIFHGh1BSCkusOe3l7OzM?si=NRecOjQuRma3pXQ6ukAWKg

📍Official Website: https://www.creativehealthcamden.com/chcpodcast/episode-5-artist-amp-photographer-carli-adby-notley

Last Week, Creative Health Camden joined the Brecknock & Torriano Primary Schools' lnclusion Festival 2026 🎪 The Inclusi...
26/05/2026

Last Week, Creative Health Camden joined the Brecknock & Torriano Primary Schools' lnclusion Festival 2026 🎪

The Inclusion Festival was dedicated to supporting and showcasing the lived experiences of families with SEND (Special Education Needs and Disabilites). With a bounty of activities, food and information stalls, it was a delight for CHC to participate.

Stationed in the Art Shed, Creative Health Camden brought wood panels and paint pens for play-enthused creativity session, demonstrating that anyone, at any any age, can be an artist. Our participating artists were able to experiment - dotting, smudging, illustrating and expressing themselves with paint pen in hand.

We also exhibited 'Patchwork of Experience', dedicated to the SEND experiences and the families - which we will be sharing more on soon!

Inhale...and exhale...it's the REIGNITE series 🔥📚 This week, we step back in time to explore our 2024 report for our wee...
25/05/2026

Inhale...and exhale...it's the REIGNITE series 🔥📚 This week, we step back in time to explore our 2024 report for our weekly workshop programme 'Breathing for Wellbeing'.

Beginning in January 2022 and led by Project Lead Julie Crossan - who has been teaching for over 10 years - Breathing for Wellbeing offers simple, accessible breathing sessions to help people manage symptoms and health conditions.

Weekly sessions are open to everyone and include gentle-seated stretches and simple breathing techniques.

Thank you to Julia for supporting our participants and Camden residents!

🔍To learn more about 2024 Breathing for Wellbeing report, visit our Evaluations page over at creativehealthcamden.com.

In this week's Drawn Together workshop sessions, our artists explored the work of Albert Wallis - taking their creative ...
20/05/2026

In this week's Drawn Together workshop sessions, our artists explored the work of Albert Wallis - taking their creative explorations to the seas and shores ⛵

For those who have yet to learn about Alfred Wallis...here's some information for the creatively curious:

Alfred Wallis was a Plymouth-born artist and marine stores dealer. For Wallis, painting would begin at the age of 70, in 1925. With a resourceful edge to his paintings, Wallis would use household paint on scraps of cardboard.

Spending a majority of his life by the sea, the sight of ports and ships. Defined as 'naive art', Wallis had no formal training and was self-taught, liberating his approach to perspective and form.

Inspired by Wallis' history and creations, our Drawn Together artists took to found materials and mediums in their immediate vicinity, mimicking how Wallis' resourcefulness.

It's that time of year! Celebrating Creativity & Wellbeing Week at Creative Health Camden 🎵🎨🌱Creative Health Camden is f...
20/05/2026

It's that time of year! Celebrating Creativity & Wellbeing Week at Creative Health Camden 🎵🎨🌱

Creative Health Camden is fuelled by our aim is to improve health and wellbeing by providing creative social activities and practical support.

Whether it is our extensive workshop programme, exhibitions, podcast or evaluations - each piece of the CHC puzzle aids inclusivity, accessibility and opening up dynamic conversations about health.

📍To learn and get involved, head to creativehealthcamden.com. Happy Creativity & Wellbeing Week!

Last week, Creative Health Camden attended the East London Festival of Creative Health where we had the chance to explor...
19/05/2026

Last week, Creative Health Camden attended the East London Festival of Creative Health where we had the chance to explore a series of exhibitions exploring the subject of creative health 🎨➕🌱 The festival was held at

The festival also marked the launch of 'Creative Health: In Practice' - a book by , founder of - bringing together artists, researchers from , and community practitioners. Creative Health Camden is also featured in the book, where we shared more about our mission and role within Camden and the Kentish Town Health Centre.

Thank you for allowing us to be part of a growing conversation about the role of creativity in health and wellbeing!

Creative Health Camden is excited to announce ‘Noah of the Zoa’ 🎉‘NOAH OF THE ZOA’Exhibition by George Harding .dageeza🗓...
13/05/2026

Creative Health Camden is excited to announce ‘Noah of the Zoa’ 🎉

‘NOAH OF THE ZOA’
Exhibition by George Harding .dageeza

🗓 JUNE 2026 - OCTOBER 2026
PRIVATE VIEW: 11TH JUNE (18:30 - 20:30)

‘Noah of the Zoa’ is an exhibition by artist George Harding, featuring a collection of vibrant oil paintings and ceramic reliefs.

Core influences to Harding’s body of work are artist William Blake’s invented spiritual mythology known as ‘The Four Zoas’, alongside psychiatrist, psychologist and psychotherapist Carl Jung’s theory of universal archetypes that shape our understanding of personality.

Uniting these influences, Harding creates his own personal mythology and gives visual representation to the archetypes that exist within himself. Understanding the self not as a fixed form, ‘Noah of the Zoa’ imagines it as an ark - a refuge to multiple, ever-changing selves. By exhibiting, Harding demonstrates acceptance and healing embrace to the characters he’s created.

📍For more information and to join our Private View on 11th JUNE, visit our link in bio.

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