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.

For over 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 work on commissions, produce and deliver socially engaged projects and provide consultancy. 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 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. Previously I worked in an NHS Arts leadership role as the Director of an integrated arts charity in primary care, 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.

I’m currently working on a major project called (be)longing until spring 2026, funded by Bethlem Gallery and Arts Council England. Find out more here.

Consultancy & Advisory Roles

Selected Clients

For over 20 years I’ve worked with leading organisations across the creative and health industries in London and internationally. Works include large scale commissions for arts festivals, participatory arts projects, teaching medical students, consultancy and more.

Alopecia UK
Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge
Artquest
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
Centre for Contemporary Photography, Australia
Crisis
Culture, Health & Wellbeing Alliance
Institute for Medical Humanities, 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
London College of Communication

Maudsley Charity, London
National Survivor User Network
New York University in London
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 Nursing
Royal College of Psychiatrists
Royal Museums Greenwich, London
Science Gallery London
The Southbank Centre, London
South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums, Newcastle
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