The City Arts Doctors.

About Us:

 Anna Walker PhD
 Artist, Researcher, Storyteller

Anna is an artist, researcher, storyteller and psychotherapist. She was awarded an MA in Fine Art from Southampton University in 1998, and a certificate in Psychotherapy from CBPC Cambridge in 2010. An interest in the effects of trauma on the body, developed during her training as a psychotherapist, led her to complete her PhD in Arts and Media at Plymouth University, earlier this year.

From 2009-2012 Anna founded and ran PATH to work with disadvantaged individuals and excluded groups to promote wholeness and wellbeing using arts-based therapeutic programmes. The organisation brought artists and psychotherapists together to engage, support and inspire individuals at risk of isolation and exclusion, and engage with communities through arts and culture.  www.anna-walker-research.com

Ben Park
Composer, Musician

Ben is a composer and musician who has recently started his PhD: Music in The Collaborative Arts, at Kingston University. In recent years, he has worked on a number of community and youth projects. He directed Oxford Cross Schools ‘Great Wars-Oresteia’ Project in association with poet Ian McMillan, which Premiered in June 2014 as part of the Magdalen Festival. In 2015  he  went on to devise and direct - 'Oxenford Tale'- a new choral/physical work for 25 performers from five state and private schools  from the Oxford area.
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In recent months Ben has scored the British comedy film Downhill and produced the sound score album with his band- To The Waters. He also worked collaboratively with the Actor-Director, Joseph Patterson on Sancho- act of Remembrance which toured the UK & USA last year. www.parkmusic.me

Jo Milne PhD
Artist, Art's Practitioner

Jo is a visual artist who works between Edinburgh, London and Barcelona. She was awarded a PhD in Fine Art for her thesis “Invisible Structures” from the University of Barcelona in 2016, that considered methodologies used by scientists, artists and visionaries to visualize the invisible. Her research practice led to collaborations with programmers and scientists at CitiLab (Cornella), the VHIR, Barcelona and the Chemistry Department of the University of Barcelona.

She has been a visiting lecturer at University of Barcelona, Winchester School of Art, Duncan of Jordanstone, Europaïsche Kunstakademie Trier and currently teaches visual creation at EINA, Centre Universitari de Disseny i Art in Barcelona. She has received awards for her work, from the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation (Canada), the RSA, Arena Foundation, AENA and has exhibited internationally in public and private institutions.
http://www.jomilne.com/

Vicky Lenton
Therapist

Vicky has a BA Degree in Counselling and holds qualifications in supervision, person-centred art therapy, therapeutic group facilitation, and training groups. She has been working as a Counsellor and Group Facilitator since 1996. She is also a Supervisor and Trainer, and is currently contracted as Lead Facilitator of NAPAC’s survivor support groups in London and delivers training to professionals about the impact of child abuse and trauma-informed approaches. In her private practice, Vicky works with clients who have experienced childhood abuse and provides supervision and training to counsellors and other staff in organisations supporting abuse survivors.
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Over the years, she has used art to faciliate difficult and traumatic conversations. And recently she ran an ongoing art and craft group at the rape crisis centre with a range of artists and therapists to explore creating community and transforming trauma through art.