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Trellis Arbor

Trellis: Arbor is a knowledge-exchange programme for staff and researchers of the Queen Square Institute of Neurology and artists and communities

The Arbor programme has been created to foster an interdisciplinary approach to creative research, and to create a physical and intellectual space for the development of meaningful artistic and academic collaborations.

Artists, researchers and teams from our partners at UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, UK Dementia Research Institute and UCLH National Hospital of Neurology and Neurosurgery are paired together to spark new and interesting collaborations.

During the programme, they form a working relationship in which they share information and research; gain an insight into each other’s worlds and collaborate to co-create a piece of work which explores a topic of mutual interest and the artist’s practice. The final manifestation could be anything – from something that is displayed at one of the programme’s spaces – at Grays Inn Road or Queen Square, to a temporary work, performance work, digital, sound, text or a physical event.

Arbor is part of UCL's Trellis programme which creates opportunities for collaboration between artists, researchers and communities, pioneered on our new UCL East campus.

Read about the 2023-2024 projects below:

The words I wish I had stayed longer written in sand on a beach

Walking in your Footsteps

Dr Natalie Ryan and Briony Campbell

collage of colourful images,

Drawing the Stuff of Memory

Dr Kirsty Lu and Maria Teresa Ortoleva

an image of two hands on a drum
Ebb & Flow text on background of a waterfall

Ebb and Flow

Dr Tatiana Alvarez Giovannucci, Maria del Mar Estarellas Garcia and Lucy Steggals

water images

How to Swim on Land

Dr Louie Lee and Caroline Wright 

a hazy image of people on a hill

In Search of Lost Time

Lynn Dennison and Dr Tom Miller
 

Watch artists and researchers talk through the process of collaboration and co-creation, working with communities with lived experience of neurological condition and the impact of UCL’s Arbor programme on their work and practice.

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If you're interested in finding out more, get in touch with Sam Wilkinson, UCL Public Art.