Naomi Woddis is a photographer living with two chronic invisible conditions, Lyme Disease and Ehlers Danlos Syndrome. Over the late summer of 2017 Naomi was the artist in residence at the Free Space Project, the arts & wellbeing charity based within Kentish Town Health Centre.

We are pleased to be working again with ActionSpace, a charity that supports the development of artists with learning disabilities.

Paloma Tendero‘s work is based on the influence of genetic inheritance. This exhibition is the result of a two-month artist in residence project at Kentish Town Health Centre, where Tendero looks for an interpretation of the beauty behind illness. Through photography and embroidery she explores the beauty of PKD cells.

In Traces 17 multidisciplinary artists that attend the peer group at the Free Space Project explore who we have been, where we are now and who we would like to be. The artist peer group is a monthly event for artists that are exploring health and wellbeing in their practice, often covering complex and emotional experiences.

Artist Victoria Coster is one of an estimated 5 million people in the UK to be living with the condition known as Tinnitus. Like many others to be diagnosed, there is no identifiable cause associated with her experience.

My Mother’s Daughter is an exhibition of sensitive photographic works by three artists examining the loss and legacy of their mothers. In each of the works the artists have found a unique method of retaining the bond between mother and daughter, in an exploration of grief, motherhood, genetic inheritance and their continuing role as daughters.

An exhibition exploring ideas of light and art as therapeutic practice

The Free Space Gallery is pleased to host the work of 8 artists exploring ideas of light and art as therapeutic practice, through the mixed mediums of painting, drawing, sculpture and printing.

Artist Antonia Attwood’s ‘Manifestations of the Mind’ is an innovative in-depth Arts and Mental Health project, made in partnership with an amazing set of people with ‘Lived Experience’ of Mental Illness. It focusses on exploring ways of communicating how their mental health conditions uniquely affect them and how they actually feel to those who experience them.