Creative workshops were designed and facilitated by Anne Marr, a Programme Director at Central Saint Martins and Artist Ruairiadh O’Connell. Across June and July 2022, we ran four workshops at Central Saint Martins. In the first two workshops, people living with Parkinson’s and their loved ones explored fears and worries associated with a dementia diagnosis, creating their own artworks inspired by Matisse’s paper cut-outs.

In the latter two workshops, participants shared their thoughts on how professionals should discuss dementia with people living with Parkinson’s, creating smaller cut-out shapes and annotating them to express when, where and how they would like to learn about dementia, and what excellent support throughout the process would look like. We placed participants’ cut-out shapes together to create a large collage capturing all the different viewpoints and experiences within the group.

Photos by Gareth Johnson.