Together Through Art

The Together through Art (TTA) programme at Dulwich Picture Gallery supports young people with lived experience of mental health difficulties and aims to reduce the stigma which surrounds mental health through the delivery of creativity and wellbeing workshops in local primary and secondary schools.    

Working in partnership with the South London and Maudsely (SLaM) Mental Health Trust Recovery College the Gallery provides access to a six-month paid training and development programme for six local young people aged 18-25 who have lived experience of accessing child or adult mental health services. The project aims to equip the participants with tools and experiences to share how they have used creativity in their lives to support their well-being to help children and young people in our priority boroughs of Southwark, Lambeth and Lewisham.  

Participants take part in a paid six-month paid training and development programme delivered by the Gallery and the SLaM Recovery College to become Creative Peer Facilitators (CPF’s). CPF’s are partnered with an artist from the Gallery team. Together,they use a co-production model to co-design and co-deliver bespoke creativity and wellbeing workshops for children and young people in Primary and Secondary Schools in our priority boroughs.  The workshops use the artworks in the Gallery’s collection as a starting point to explore creative resilience, mindfulness and cultural capital with the students. NHS figures state that between 2017 and 2021, the proportion of 6-16-year-olds with a probable mental health condition increased from one in nine to one in six.  The Together Through Art programme aims to support schools with these creative workshops and also CPD training for teachers to support the mental health of their students.