Creative Team

Sophie Wright is a multi-disciplinary artist specialising in drawing, sculpture and community workshop. She is also an experiences meditation practitioner working 1-to-1 or in groups up to 40 participants. Wright is weaving these two practices into Meditation Pods project as part of Eastbourne ALIVE celebrating Turner Prize 2023

Guided by Sophie Wright, young people aged 16-24 met weekly to mind map creative ideas, meditate and holistically explore wellbeing and safe spaces. Through that process, three meditation pod concepts were created. The works will be installed in East Sussex Libraries where visitors can enjoy a reflective moment.

Meet Josie Slater our fantastic Workshop Facilitator and Health Professional

Josie has worked as an activity coordinator in a care home and ran the art room supporting disabled adults to build skills and use art as therapy. She has also worked with young people at the University of Brighton.

She is passionate about OT and art and truly believe that art can be used to help anyone in their recovery journey." We where so lucky to have Josie co-run the workshops and to make sure that the young people who attended where fully and completely supported.

Meet Garance; we were so lucky to have her explore colour therapy with us in one of the workshops:

Garance Querleu is an interdisciplinary artist-storyteller who translates neurodiverse experience through illustration, poetry, and performance. Her research project ‘The Neurodiverse Imaginaries’ explores the potential of illustrated, symbolist books as companions and guides for those she terms the Invisibly Wounded.

Her project is inspired by her experience as welfare representative for the King’s College London Intersectional Feminist Society, and as the carer of young, neurotypical girls. How might story, rhyme, colour, music, and archetypes contribute to theories of narrative medicine, becoming their own, transformative practices of care?

Neil Hartop is an Irish filmmaker based in Northern Ireland. Neil graduated Napier University Film & Digital Imaging course in 2007 and went on to work as a cameraman on features and commercials and as a film tutor for the British Film Institute.

In 2012 he was awarded best short film in the Scottish New Talent BAFTA Awards for his film ‘Rabbit Punch’. Rabbit Punch went on to be screened internationally as well as broadcast on channel 4. He continues to work as an educator and freelances as sound designer

Hey I’m Jordan, I have over a decade experience working with children and young adults in a variety of different sectors.

I’m a qualified blacksmith and woodworker, with my own business manufacturing wood products with a focus on recycled and sustainable materials”

Anna has a passion for design and a keen interest in materials. Originally trained as an Industrial Designer, she has more recently focused her attention on designing and making bespoke furniture and objects.

Her work pushes the boundaries of processes and materials to create unique one-off pieces.

The grandson of a 3 generation business "Hubbard Tailoring".

Javan grew up learning about the art of pattern making, material cutting and garment construction through his father and grandfather before joining the family business at 16.

He's been working there ever since, and is now striving to follow in his parent's footsteps and become a master tailor himself.

Freya works as a holistic wellness coach, teaching yoga and meditation. She is a practicing artist in her spare time, inspired by nature and working mostly with natural materials such as clay and willow.

She graduated from Falmouth University with a contemporary crafts degree and has since completed a masters in public health. Freya loves to combine her passion for wellbeing within her art, using her knowledge of Biophilic design to inform her practice.

Meet Tyler, the web designer for the Mediation Pods project! Tyler is a college student with a huge passion for coding and photography. He is a talented and creative individual who is always looking for new ways to use technology.

His passion for coding began at a young age. He was always fascinated by how computers worked and loved to learn new programming languages. When he was at his secondary school, he started building his own websites and apps. He quickly realised that he had a huge love for web design.