Ann Diment Somerset, United Kingdom

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I live in Glastonbury, Somerset I am an emerging artist after completing a Foundation Diploma in Art & Design as a mature student after a 20 years as a Health, Safety & Wellbeing practitioner. I have lived experience of ACE's and cPTSD so use my creative practice to support my wellbeing, and smash the stigma around Mental Health and promote trauma-informed practice.

I commission activites to support welbeing and reduce heaalth inequalities , and also work independantly as an artist, poet, performer and 'creative changemaker' coach supporting burned out creatives and professionals to break free and burn brighter.

For my college studies I documented my practice on two Tumblr blogs and Instagram regularly (details below)

I work with a range of media and am particularly interested in recycling and repurposing objects that would normally be discarded, to connect a ‘mend and repair’ theme to the conversation about mental health recovery and healing. I also draw inspiration from nature to instil an observational and meditative aspect to my work and have experience as a music and acting performer too.

The process of studying for an Art and Design Foundation diploma enabled me to connect with and release so much past trauma and life experiences and I want to continue this journey and help others find their voices, working collaboratively with communities to help co-create art that empowers survivors of adverse childhood events (ACE’s) to express and heal through the visual and performing arts.

I create community art activities to help people start connecting with their wider world and introduce more empathy and compassion for themselves and for those around us, as many will have found the lockdown and other traumas associated with the COVID pandemic difficult to process or articulate.

Recent examples of my work are in the application and examples of my creative writing and film work are here:

• Turning the Tables on Burnout' Book published October 2023: https://worksafeandwell.co.uk/turning-the-tables-on-burnout-book/ • Poems included in the 'Watchet Poemscape' project here: https://ralphhoyte.org/augmented-soundscapes/the-quantock-poetry-trail/watchet-poemscape/. • Poems published in 'A room of one's own- Lockdown house' archive of women's writing in response to lockdown (Launched with a perfromance reading at the house of commons, June 2023). : https://roomsofourownthelockdownhouse.v21artspace.com/ • Poem published in ‘Hot Poets Sparks’ book (launching 02/03/23): https://etsy.me/3Ez1I5E • Talk at Artlab- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj1qgpU3TUU End of Year Show 'tour': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YTh8EFECpg • Creating Recovery- audio installation work expressing the healing power of creativity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZMzvyupiUY • ‘Hope’- a film made about the impact of Lockdown on Social Isolation- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyBbjBi4mhI • Time to Change somerset- A film talking to Volunteer Champions about talking about mental health (I am a contributor and read one of my poems)- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DD2ZSZk2A2I • #soundsfromhome online exhibition curated by Amanda Lynch for Arts and Disability charity CEDA. Audio excerpt of a poem and collage shown in the online exhibition on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/p/CFxJ2IVAX-1/ • Workshop Commission from Durham University Student Art Prize Artfund to run two online workshops in February 2021. https://sitcfestival.org/workshops/ • 'Restriction' exhibition from the 'Correspondence Collective' at Clayhill Arts. Creating small pieces of work (3 x 4 cm) that fit into compartments of a letterpress drawer. My pieces are in drawers 1 and 3 here: https://www.correspondencecollective.com/exhibitions • Seed Sedgemoor ‘All the colours’ submitted 2 abstract collages for a curated work turned into a lenticular image by Fiona Campbell and displayed on the Buses of Somerset (Summer 2021) https://seedsedgemoor.com/artfirstgallery/