lived experience
As patients and friends, we have found solace and connection through art in our most difficult times.
our story
Through our own battles with cancer, chronic disease and mental illness, we came together as close friends with a passion to elevate creativity as a pillar of health.
We launched A Space Between from a place of lived experience, setting out to build programmes that would inspire a simple creative pause within hospital settings and into the community. Our vision was to break down generational barriers, patient-carer boundaries and social confines through a collective art space open to all.
We believe that art-making in its simplest, most child-like form is a powerful connector - connecting to oneself; connecting to others.
A Space Between is about channelling anguish, escaping boredom, blocking out noise just for that one moment where art can take over and do its thing.
We set about inspiring a multitude of creative pauses - moments as though suspended in time amidst life’s rushes; spaces between.
ASB founders - Fardokht, Emily & Tianna
meet the team
our advisory board
our trustees
our ambassadors
“The time has come to recognise the powerful contribution the arts can make to our health and wellbeing.”
— Lord Howarth of Newport, co-chair of the APPG on arts, health and wellbeing