Workshop | Caring Creatively with Lauren Martin

Join Artist Lauren Martin as you explore how to use creative tools to improve your

wellbeing. With over seven years experience in facilitating with individuals across all life.

Lauren tailors each session to the attendees.

What will you be doing?

Using a range of activities such as portrait sketching and mindful mood movement within an online environment.

There is no experience needed, simply to come, take part and enjoy the session.

What will it achieve?

Through this session you will learn new skills that you can take home to implement in your own life. Each activity is selected, tried by the artist herself personally and also through previous workshops.

Skills such as increased self awareness, drawing skills and an increased knowledge of what works best for you as an individual to what helps your mental health will be achieved.

We are hoping that your mood will also increase throughout the workshop and attending itself will be a form of self care.

Where will it be?

The workshop will take place online in a relaxed and adaptive environment.

About Lauren

Lauren Martin (1994) is a mixed media Artist and Community Arts facilitator from Belfast.

Lauren creates between sculpture, digital illustration and painting, exploring the relationship between the impact of ill health and endurance in suffering.

Her role as a community Arts facilitator heavily influences her own personal work. Working with organisations such as Northern Ireland Children’s Hospice. She has facilitated with over twenty five organisations over a span of six years.

She specialises in working with individuals living with disabilities and creates work to tell their story. Creating collaborative group pieces to individual mentorship.

She uses discarded pieces of material or objects to create new pieces of work and give them a new purpose; challenging the idea of usefulness in our society.

In 2024 she was awarded the University of Atypical Deaf/ Disabled Artist Fund in which she created’ “All At Once.” A body of work in partnership with FND Matters NI to raise awareness of neurological disorders.

In 2025 she was awarded the SIAP Artist funding for individuals from the Arts Council NI through the international lottery fund. She created her new body of work, “Static and Sound” exploring our bodies response to trauma and finding hope even in suffering.

Access Information

• Auto-captions
• Self Descriptions
• BSL Interpretation
• Comfort Breaks

About CRIPtic Arts

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