“A Creative Transformation” (ACT) is an organisation built for and run by people who have lived experience of acquired brain injury or a neurological condition (ABI/NC). We make art, we tell our stories, we form a community. ACT works in two domains: courses of visual arts groups for inpatients in neurorehabilitation units in hospitals, and art workshops in community settings for people living with ABI/NC, who cannot get the help they need, excluded from mental/physical healthcare systems.

People who experience ABI/NC commonly receive a lot of stigma and discrimination. These are often ‘invisible’ illnesses, often interpreted in a derogatory, judgemental way. One important aspect of ACT is to challenge and divert these negative reactions, building new ways to express and communicate, creatively.

We proceed with the idea that we are all artists, and being creative can help us all, in a myriad of different ways. This project examines how art can help people recover from brain injury, defining recovery as living well with or after brain injury.