ART REFUGE
using art and art therapy
to support people who are
displaced and offering crisis
support and consultation
to frontline staff, in the UK
and internationally
Winners: your postcards are being sent this week!
“WISH YOU WERE HERE” an Art Refuge fundraising exhibition and raffle took place at the stunning Yorkton Workshops in Hackney, East London - December 1-4, 2021.
Around 180 artists from across the UK, Europe, and as far away as Australia, generously donated a postcard-sized artwork that was raffled to raise money for our projects in northern France and the UK. Artworks included - Grayson Perry, Rana Begum, Jeremy Deller, Aida Silvestri, Cornelia Parker, David Tremlett, Majid Adin, Liaqat Rasul and Eileen Cooper.
@artrefuge_wishyouwerehere to see the art works in the raffle
@artrefuge_ for regular news and project updates
Thank you to @yorktonworkshops for hosting our charity raffle!
Responding to community level displacement due to coronavirus, in mid March 2020 Art Refuge launched a local/global virtual art project CORONAQUILT on Rituals of the Everyday.
Click here to see the CORONAQUILT and to take part!
Visual artists and art therapists
Our team of artists and art therapists is equipped to deliver dynamic, culturally relevant and responsive programmes in a wide range of contexts across the UK and internationally, with a longstanding history in South Asia. We are currently growing our team of refugee artists in all our programmes. We are skilled at adapting our work to support safe and imaginative spaces for people who have been displaced, including refugees and asylum seekers, both while they are in transit and once they have reached a final destination.
Participatory and collaborative practice
Art Refuge's core ethos is based upon a participatory and collaborative practice informed by decades of individual and collective experience and skills in the visual arts, art therapy, trauma work and psychosocial approaches. Always working in close partnership with local and international government and non-governmental organisations, our work largely takes place within groups and we currently operate in London, Bristol and in northern France.
Events & exhibitions
We engage in public discourse through our active use of social media as an advocacy platform as well as a place to celebrate people's creative agency; fundraising events; exhibitions; peer-reviewed and other academic writing, presentation of papers at conferences and delivery of arts-based psychosocial training programmes in the UK and internationally.
