Communicating Eating Disorder Recovery Through Art: Events at the University of Nottingham

As part of EDIFY's goals to communicate young people's experiences of eating disorder recovery through creative practice and EDIFY's Artist in Residence programme, there will be two events at the University of Nottingham (led by Prof Heike Bartel, WS1) .

12th May 2026, University of Nottingham: Curatorial Workshop with Prof Heike Bartel (Nottingham) and Caroline Le Luel (KCL): “Art as a Language of Care: Curating and Exhibiting Art to Communicate Health Research” . For information, please contact sue.hopcroft@nottingham.ac.uk

13th May 2028, University of Nottingham:  Conference of SAPC (Society of Academic Primary Care) annual conference of the Mental Health Special Interest Group https://sapc.ac.uk/special-interest-group/mental-health-no-health-without-mental-health  (registration: https://sapc.ac.uk/conference/sapc-mental-health-sig-primary-care-conference-2026). The SAPC conference theme in 2026 is underserved communities in healthcare , with input from EDIFY on eating disorders. The conference is designed to appeal to clinicians and non-clinical academics, and the aim is to open interdisciplinary perspectives that can open new avenues of thinking. There will be an interdisciplinary panel on ‘Better mental healthcare for underserved communities – different perspectives and approaches’.

Part of the conference will be an art exhibition,  'Keys to Care for Better Mental Health: a participatory art exhibition' including the textile installation 'Salvage Thread' by EDIFY-artist in residence Maeve Gillespie, and a mini  film festival showing films produced as part of EDIFY's collaboration with young people and animation studio WovenInk.