Currently, 55 million people worldwide live with dementia. My Fellowship explores how museums can engage with and improve health and wellbeing for those living with dementia, and for their carers. I want to consider how the arts can be used as a communicative tool to express the lived experiences of dementia.

As a professional artist I am interested in visual perception and how that can be altered unconsciously. In this project, I explore how illness affects visual perception. As a contemporary artist I combine complex research and artistic materials to help public engagement with a mysterious disease.

My project aims to offer participants the chance to learn something new and to strengthen their sense of self. It opens new methods of inspiring interest and enquiry in later life, exactly at a time when people are hearing that they will not be able to learn or remember learning. This project values how people see the world differently and how cognitive changes allow for that change in perspective.