Artist Wellbeing

Rosie works with a number of arts organisations, theatre companies and educational institutions to offer mental health and emotional wellbeing support.

In conjunction with Esplanade Singapore, Rosie designs and lead-facilitates Intermission: A Wellbeing Day for the Arts, Singapore’s only wellness day for people who work in any aspect of the arts industry.

Intermission is a one day programme for artists and creative practitioners of all disciplines that offers arts practitioners the chance to focus on their own mental and emotional wellbeing, build connections with themselves and others, and give them an opportunity to participate in experiential sessions run by qualified creative arts therapists, including drama therapists, music therapists, dance movement psychotherapists and art therapists.

 

Production Support

Rosie works with cast and crew to offer on-going or one-off therapeutic and wellbeing support before, during, or after productions.

This can look like:

  • Group sessions providing mental and emotional wellness support

  • Talks or discussions about topics within the production

  • One on one therapeutic support

This space allows creative professionals to process any sensitive and traumatic material that may be a part of the production, giving them a better chance to connect to their work in a safe way, both for themselves and for other members of the production.

Productions that Rosie has supported include:

The Wonderful World of Dissocia - Young and Wild

Acting Mad - The Necessary Stage

Inconsequential Goddess - Edith Podesta

Spitfire Grill - LaSalle College of the Arts

Still Human - SDEA x SAMH

Leda and the Rage - Edith Podesta

 

Arts and Wellbeing

Rosie worked with artist Shilpa Gupta to create Artivities: Exploring Inner and Outer Worlds Through Art - an collection of art activities that connect back to Shilpa’s artistic practice, in particular her sculpture Untitled (2023), shown at The National Gallery Singapore. The artivities invite people to begin to understand emotions, building on empathy through creativity.


In conversation with artist Michael Lee, as part of his Multi_plex(es) series, Rosie and Michael unpack the whats/whens/whys of a complex and the origins of the creative psyche. How can we navigate—in ways working with or, when necessary, against our mental patterns—to not just survive but thrive?