Hello 👋🏽 I’m Daniel.

I’m a visual artist & Creative Health* expert based in London.

* Creative Health is used to mean any creative or cultural activity that supports health and/or wellbeing.

I’m a visual artist specialising in the exploration of complex and difficult emotional experiences, focusing on the transformational impact of arts on mental health, building on my own lived experiences.

Over the last 20 years my creative works have brokered dialogues around taboo topics such as mental health, grief, self injury, suicide and racism, through the lens of my intersectional identities as a queer and disabled person of Black and white mixed heritage.

As a part of my creative practice I shoot commissions, produce and deliver socially engaged projects and provide consultancy on Creative Health work. I regularly exhibit and speak at events across fine art, educational and clinical institutions in the UK and worldwide, alongside teaching at both art and medical institutions.

In 2015 I founded and am now the Executive Director of the Arts & Health Hub, a not-for-profit London based organisation that supports artists and cultural producers that are exploring health, wellbeing and what it means to be human in their creative practice. Through my work supporting other artists I’m deeply driven by how we support those with lived experience of illness to safely make both personal and participatory works, and am passionate about ecosystems of care within the Creative Health sector.

From 2016-2021 I worked in primary care as the Artistic Director of Creative Health Camden, a pioneering arts and wellbeing charity embedded into the NHS, leading on the development and programming of a large number of arts and health initiatives available to over 30,000 patients.

I’m represented by Bethlem Gallery in London and live and have a studio in south east London. If you have a project or want to work together some how please get in touch.

Consultancy & Advisory Roles

  • British Association of Art Therapists (2023 - present): I’m currently the association’s EDI (Equality, Diversity & Inclusion) consultant.

  • Royal Museums Greenwich (2024 - present): Critical friend to their Working Together for Health & Wellbeing project.

  • Royal College of Psychiatrists: Lived Experience / Patient Representative (2020 - present): I work as a part of the RCPsych’s Arts Special Interest Group (ArtSIG), working closely with the SIG Chair and Committee on developing a programme of events that explore arts and health in psychiatry, working alongside psychiatrists to bring in the voices of artists and those with lived experience of ill mental health.

  • Baring Foundation: Arts Advisor (2020 - present): I support the Foundation’s arts and mental health funding strategy, advising on its direction and development as someone with a wealth of professional and personal lived experience in this field.

  • Bethlem Gallery Collection Advisory Board (2023 - present): I advise on the gallery’s new approach to how and what artworks are acquired for their new collection.

  • London Arts & Health (2019-2022): I sat on the board of trustees, supporting the strategic development of the charity.

Alopecia UK
Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge
Artquest
Arts & Health Southwest
Autograph APB, London
Barbican Centre, London
Baring Foundation
Barts Health NHS Trust
Bethlem Gallery & Museum of the Mind, London
The Big Anxiety Festival (Australia)
Birkbeck, University of London
British Association of Art Therapists
British Journal of Photography
British Library, London
Burrinja Cultural Centre (Australia)
Central School of Speech & Drama, London
Crisis
Culture, Health & Wellbeing Alliance
Durham University
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
The Guardian
Greater London Authority
HarperCollins
Health Education England
Historic Royal Palaces, London
Huffington Post
The Institute for Arts in Therapy & Education, London
King’s College London
The Lancet Psychiatry

Selected Clients

For 20 years I’ve worked across fine art, clinical and community environments, working with leading organisations in London and internationally. Works include large scale commissions for arts festivals, participatory arts workshops, working with medical students, consultancy on developing Creative Health programmes, anti-racism work and more.

London College of Communication
Maudsley Charity, London
National Survivor User Network
Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool
Ort Gallery, Birmingham
Paintings in Hospitals
Peckham24 Festival, London
Pfizer (medical research)
The Photographers’ Gallery, London
The Photography Movement
Photoworks
QUAD Gallery, Derby
Queercircle, London
Queen Mary University London
Race Equality Foundation
Royal College of Psychiatrists
Royal Museums Greenwich, London
Science Gallery London
The Southbank Centre, London
South London & Maudsley NHS Trust
Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums, Newcastle
Universal Music
University of the Arts London (UAL)
University of Chester
University College London
University of New South Wales (Australia)
Wellcome Collection
WEX Photo Video
Yarra Ranges Regional Museums (Australia)