Let's Get Social dlr: Creative Health Network – Session 2

A new series of workshops for artists, creatives, and healthcare professionals. Facilitated by visual artist Caroline Schofield, this series of talks with invited artists and others will explore diverse projects, activities, and the role of art in care, community, and later life.

Join artists Caroline Hyland and Kim Jenkinson who will share their recent experience of Making Space, a collaborative project with Living Well with Dementia. This session will include art making and discussion. Funded by a Creative Ireland dlr Project Award, Making Space provided the artists with time and space to explore and enrich their creative practices working with a Living Well with Dementia art group.

For more information please email creativeireland@dlrcoco.ie

About Caroline Hyland

Caroline Hyland is an art facilitator and illustrator with a background education and experience in Visual Communication, Art education and Occupational Therapy. She strongly believes in the power of art for supporting a person’s voice and the important role art plays in engaging and connecting communities. Caroline believes that art is for everyone and access to creativity is a human right.

Caroline is an art facilitator with the Living Well with Dementia community project in the DLR area since 2020. In 2024 she co-piloted an Art at Home project with people who have a Dementia in the DLR area with Caroline Schofield. Caroline also works as a facilitator and mentor in a supportive art studio for adults in South County Dublin and facilitates art sessions in the community with Southside Partnership. She also worked for a number of years bringing art to people at their bedsides and the Age Related Clinic in Tallaght University hospital. Caroline is trained in the Azure Approach that supports dementia inclusive arts engagement. She is currently collaborating with the Rua Red Engagement officer to pilot bringing Brain Health and Accessible Gallery Tours to the Rua Red Arts Centre Programming.

About Kim Jenkinson

Kim Jenkinson is a socially engaged visual artist living and working in Dun Laoghaire Rathdown . Using a variety of mediums and art processes, she co creates work with people of all ages across different community settings. Kim has particular interest and experience working with older people in residential and healthcare settings, and has been involved in several programmes working with DLR arts office in this area.