Rewilding Healthcare Exhibition at Cody Dock
4th May – 5th June 2025 • Free Entry
Rewilding healthcare is a creative collaboration for UCL Trellis 5, between artist Laura Copsey and Sarah Yardley, a researcher and palliative medicine consultant.
The project invited participants to join in a series of creative workshops at Cody Dock in Newham, on the banks of the River Lea, in partnership with Julia Briscoe, Cody Dock co-founder and a former palliative care nurse.
Guided by Sarah’s co-produced theory of collective social safety, the creative workshops used metaphors related to water, islands and sailing to spark conversation and reframe healthcare experiences in new ways.
As a crew, we shared stories and perspectives in workshops informed by Laura’s practice involving mapping, navigation, signalling and the weather. Our aim was to reimagine healthcare as an open ecosystem that prioritises creativity and relationship-centered solutions, culminating in an exhibition at UCL East in April 2025.
The exhibition is running from 4th May – 5th June with a special event on Thursday 22nd May.
About Creativity and Wellbeing Week
Creativity and Wellbeing Week (19-25th May 2025) is a partnership between London Arts and Health and the Culture, Health & Wellbeing Alliance.
Now in its 14th year, the week is an opportunity for thousands of creatives and arts and cultural organisations to showcase the amazing, wide-ranging work they are doing to support health and wellbeing around the UK and beyond – whether in hospitals, museums, theatres, residential care, galleries, community centres, heritage sites, libraries, or people’s homes.
This year, our theme is ‘New Horizons in Creative Health’. We aim to engage with a wide range of grass-roots community organisations, practitioners, and participants across the country to understand their approach to and experience of Creative Health practices while asking key questions about the challenges of sustaining this work.
As the crises in individual, communal, and planetary health deepen, we are compelled to act in imaginative, radical ways to ensure our survival. Creative Health helps us to thrive as individuals and communities, but it is also an act of resistance.
Creativity and Wellbeing Week
As a part of Creativity and Wellbeing Week (19th – 25th May 2025) we will be hosting a creative workshop in response to the Rewilding Healthcare exhibition from 1:30-3pm and ‘An Evening by the River’ 6-9pm on Thursday 22nd May 2025.
Both events are free and open to all.
Rewilding Healthcare: Symbolism and Stories Workshop
1:30 – 3:00 pm Thursday 22nd May
Join us for an afternoon of creative writing and collage workshop in response to Cody Dock’s Rewilding Healthcare exhibition.
Rewilding Healthcare: An Evening by the River
6-9pm Thursday 22nd May
Please join us to celebrate Creativity & Wellbeing Week at Cody Dock and visit the Rewilding Healthcare exhibtion developed in partnership with UCL.
The bar will be open for the evening.
How to get to Cody Dock
- Cody Dock is a 6 minute walk from Star Lane DLR Station. The DLR is a fully accessible public transport network with step-free access into all stations. Use the Stephenson Street exit from Star Lane station (the exit to the left) when departing from the platform.
- Cody Dock is a 4 minute walk to the 323 bus stops (South Crescent Business Centre (Stop H) and North Crescent Business Centre (Stop J).
- Parking reserved for those with special access needs: On-site parking available upon request in advance. Please contact the event manager in advance.
Please be advised that street parking Monday – Saturday 8 am – 6.30 pm is paid by phone with a max stay of 4 hours.