Artist Sarah Taylor Silverwood has been working in various locations, connected through the Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, from secure units to drop-in sessions at Midlands Arts Centre. She invited a range of creative practitioners to collaborate in these settings to explore mental health experiences, including Kate Green, Bethany Slinn, Hannah Swingler and Emily Warner.
BROADCAST was based around a series of questions that helped to navigate open conversations. These questions were developed with staff, participants and the collaborating artists as prompts for discussing mental health experiences. At the beginning of this project, there were many discussions around the idea that mental health can be hard to talk about. The project was framed around exploring the experience of mental health, though much of the focus was on developing sessions that were about making, and approaches that encourage a platform for conversation.
