Portraits of Recovery + Venture Arts in Dialogue: Spaces Between Creative Workshop

We’re thrilled to be involved in this Recoverist Month event from Portraits of Recovery at HOME, where our Director, Amanda Sutton, will be speaking, along with artist Will Belshah, Dominic Pillai (Curator of Social Engagement at PORe), Lisa Williams (Lecturer in Criminology, University of Manchester) and others TBC.

Studies have shown that there is a clear intersectionality between neurodiversity and addiction. Often due to a shared difficulty with communication, social situations, feelings of dissociation and not fitting into societal norms. Led by Manchester-based visual artist Will Belshah, this event will explore relationships and differing perspectives on neurodivergent artistic practice and substance use (prescribed or illicit) as part of a creative workshop/ discussion.

Led by Portraits of Recovery, this commences a 12-month project in partnership with Venture Arts and HOME’s artist development programme, resulting in a series of new works by Will for exhibition within HOME’s Granada Foundation Gallery for Recoverist Month 2025.

A Recoverist Month event that, through the arts, changes the conversation on substance use and recovery. Recoverist Month September 2024 is an initiative led by Portraits of Recovery: a pioneering, Manchester-based, visual arts charity.