The City Arts Doctors.

The City Art's Doctors are: Dr Anna Walker, Dr Alf Löhr, Dr Jo Milne, Vicky Lenton, Ben Park, Michael Rathbone, Nell Phoenix and Chris Tero.  We are all highly trained professionals with many years of experience researching culture, community, arts and psychology. For over 10-years we have been delivering engaging, interactive workshops that bring people together, leading to art and music installations for the benefit of the community.

About Us:

 Anna Walker PhD
 Artist, Researcher

Anna is an artist, researcher and writer who has exhibited her work internationally. 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. www.anna-walker-research.com

In 2009 Anna set up PATH to work with disadvantaged individuals and excluded groups to promote wholeness and wellbeing using arts-based therapeutic programmes. The organization 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.annawalker.co.uk

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.
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

Alf Lohr PhD
Artist, Investigator

Alf is an artist and researcher, he was awarded an MFA from the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in “Integration of Art and Architecture” 1983, and a PhD from the Royal College of Art, London, “Art in the Urban Landscape” 1988. He has been a visiting Professor at the Royal College of Art, University of Washington, Seattle, Glasgow School of Art, University of Wales Cardiff, Monash University, Melbourne. He has received awards from the British Council, the German Academic Exchange Service, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the NEA, the Arts Council, Kunstfond Bonn, Kaiseringstipendium Goslar. His work has been exhibited internationally and has completed public art projects in Schwerin, London, Berlin, Kottayam, Edinburgh, New Delhi, New York, Düsseldorf, Cardiff, Goslar, Rom, Melbourne, Sydney, Halle, Bochum, Cologne, Hamburg, Seattle, San Francisco, Stuttgart, Stoke on Trent, Glasgow.

http://www.alflohr.org/

Vicky Lenton
Therapist, Art's Practitioner

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.
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.

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/

Michael Rathbone
Teacher, Producer, Musician

Mike plays drums and percussion with two bands in London, and creates his own studio-based music. He has also written music for TV, radio and film. He has been working with young people for over fifteen years, helping them to create, record and perform their own music. Specialising in digital technology, drums and percussion, he works with small and large groups as well as one-to-one, providing creative support and guidance towards agreed musical goals.

Since completing his MA in Community Arts at Goldsmiths College in 2008, Mike has worked extensively in primary schools, providing lessons and workshops in African Djembe drumming, guitar, drum-kit, composition and singing.

Christopher Tero
Musician

Nell Phoenix
Storyteller

Chris first started drumming when he found an old set of bongos in the dance studio at his college back in the eighties. Already a fan of African music, this discovery only confirmed that he was completely hooked on making music to move people. Coming from a classical training in clarinet, the fluid grooves of West Africa, Cuba and Brazil were fresh and irresistible. Since then, he has performed and taught around the world, delivering corporate teambuilding, weddings, barmitzvahs - he's even played at the birth of a friend's child!

https://www.jamiedrum.co.uk/

Nell has been performing professionally since graduating from Goldsmiths College. She has performed with theatre companies for 12 years touring all around the world – from the Blackpool Grand to the Sydney Opera House; all over the UK, Ireland, Eastern and Western Europe, Australia and in all sorts of spaces and places in-between.
Teaching storytelling, improvisation and devising skills is a key part of Nell’s work. She runs courses, weekly classes and workshops for all ages. She has run sessions for students, teachers, librarians, priests, would-be and developing storytellers.
She is Artistic Director of StoryNight at Torriano, Kentish Town's thriving performance storytelling clubs for adults. Nell is a passionate promoter of storytelling as a contemporary performance art. 

www.nellphoenix.co.uk