CELIA BURBUSH
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    • Holiday paintings
    • Journey Portraits
    • Plein air oil paintings
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  • ABOUT
    • Bio
    • Exhibitions
    • Experience
    • Reviews
  • Archive
    • story of we 2022
    • Light trails 2021
    • In Open Spaces 2021
    • Lockdown portraits 2020
    • New Arts North 2008-2018
    • These Four Walls 2017
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    • Dreaming of home 2016
    • Hour of the Star
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Arts Based Research development in Cumbria 

Description

In support of equality and access to the arts, Celia Burbush spends a portion of each year designing and delivering arts projects with communities with shared interests. She invites groups to co-research with her, using arts-based methods. Aside from the learning and social benefits, Celia is aware of additional positive benefits of these projects, such as increased understanding and nurture of self and environment.

Between 2008 and 2018, Celia was involved in an intense period of collaborations and projects which she designed and delivered with composer Russell Burbush, under the banner of New Arts North; covering visual art, film, theatre, music, and publishing. They partnered with several other arts companies, such as Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, Theatre by the Lake, Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust, and Prism Arts.

The broad purpose was to provide opportunities for participation and education in the arts. The project design favoured long-term engagement with small groups. A record of its activity is held in the form of an archive of photos, film, clinical data, reports, and case studies. Celia worked with schools; arts venues; museums; the NHS (the Early Intervention into Psychosis teams); councils (for long-term mental health programs, and rurally/socially isolated communities); and inclusive arts organisations (working with young people with learning disabilities and autism). She and Russell acquired £290,000 of social funding, including a research grant from Northern Rock Foundation of £60,000 over the period.

Location

Penrith, Carlisle, Whitehaven, Workington, Keswick and Egremont in Cumbria, UK

Year

2004-ongoing

Credits

Copeland Borough Council, Allerdale Borough Council, Cumbria County Council, The Big Lottery, Cumbria Community Foundation, Northern Rock Foundation and many more sponsors, partners and funders.

Celia Burbush
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