Helen Sargeant – Maternal Journal
I had a go at the Maternal Journal guides and they are so much fun, I highly recommend you try them out too and they are all FREE to access online.
Maternal Journal Todmorden & Hebden Bridge
Maternal Journal involves a series of creative workshops that explore the history and practice of journaling and the potential to promote positive mental health and wellbeing.
Body Image & Self Portraits at Hoot
In the autumn term of 2018 I worked at Hoot in huddersfield facilitating a series of workshops about self portraiture fusing drawing and mixed media to help promote mental health and wellbeing. This interview was published via the Hoot blog as part of Mental Health Awareness Week. Body Image & Self Portraits | Mental Health...
The Creative Birth Programme: BODY
I was invited to deliver a drawing workshop for pregnant women about the visualisation of the pregnant body as part of the Creative Birth Programme. The workshop involved exploring the pregnant body through dance, yoga and drawing. I worked in collaboration with midwife, artist, activist Laura Godfrey Isaac; and yoga teacher and artist Claire Horton, together...
Dust to Bread
A participatory arts project delivered on behalf of Artist As Mother As Artist, an Arts Council funded exhibition curated by Tracey Kershaw and Sam Rose. I worked together with the curators and two groups of parents, their children and a group of women to bake bread from the dust in their hoovers. The workshop was...
Drawing from birth
I led a day long workshop about drawing from birth experiences for Nativity Hub, Leeds, a health and wellbeing project set up by independent midwife Claire Harbottle.
Visualising Birth through Art
A relaxing and creative workshop with expert one to one tuition, support and guidance from an experienced artist. Suitable for anyone with an interest in birth and art, no previous art experience necessary, open to all adult learners. Particularly suited to Artists, Pregnant Women, Doulas, Midwives, Health, Care & Social workers. Imagining and expressing birth...
Visual journalling- expressing your life through art
Is there a story form your life that you would like to tell with pictures ? An aspect of your self, identity or daily experiences that you would like to express visually ? If so this exciting 10 week course created by Helen Sargeant is for you. We will be looking at the intersection between...
Lord Street Loves Bread
“Lord Street Loves Bread” involves making, baking, sharing and eating bread togther at knead and natter sessions based at the Civic Arts Centre, Oswaldtwistle.
Mother & Child workshop
Created as part of the Big Draw, this workshop included a life drawing session from a Mother and Child life models, a seminar about the representation of Mother and Child in art history and contemporary fine art, together with time to develop work inspired by personal experiences of mothering.
M(other) big draw workshop
"A workshop to coincide with "The Big Draw" exploring themes of the body and identity through creating a series of ink drawings. The workshop participants were from Level One BA Visual Arts Programme from the University of Salford."
Clifton Country Park, Wet Earth Colliery-
"Collaborated with Maria Stukoff, the children of Clifton Primary School ( "Clifton Cidz Colliery Company"), Salford Ranger Team, Salford City Council and Atomic Design to re-interpretate the site through producing art work to be utilised in an interactive CD Rom."