{"id":21712,"date":"2014-10-17T14:59:45","date_gmt":"2014-10-17T14:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/?p=21712"},"modified":"2014-10-17T14:59:45","modified_gmt":"2014-10-17T14:59:45","slug":"dementia-sufferers-embrace-therapeutic-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2014\/10\/17\/dementia-sufferers-embrace-therapeutic-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Dementia sufferers embrace therapeutic art"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_21728\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 461px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/10\/norwegian-church.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21728\" alt=\"Norwegian Church champions dementia sufferers art\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/10\/norwegian-church-461x312.jpeg\" width=\"461\" height=\"312\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21728\" alt=\"Norwegian Church champions dementia sufferers art\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/10\/norwegian-church-461x312.jpeg\" width=\"461\" height=\"312\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> Norwegian Church champions dementia sufferers art<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Artwork produced by dementia sufferers and their carers will be showcased from 13 to 19 October at the Norwegian Church Art Gallery, overlooking the Cardiff Bay barrage.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The paintings, drawings and craftwork provides the carers and dementia sufferers an artistic therapy to express their identity. The\u00a0company running the event, Solace Cardiff, champions the artistic rights of dementia sufferers. They do not indicate who the work was produced by, so it is open to interpretation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Helen Joy, the Art Facilitator from Solace describes how, &#8220;A degenerative condition should demonstrate deterioration. But this exhibition shows the opposite\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It shows the public how important it is to people to have freedom to be themselves, to express themselves.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition is free and offers everyone the chance to open their eyes to Art in Dementia.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/10\/Art-in-dementia-poster.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-21737\" alt=\"Art in dementia poster\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/10\/Art-in-dementia-poster-220x312.jpeg\" width=\"220\" height=\"312\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-21737\" alt=\"Art in dementia poster\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/10\/Art-in-dementia-poster-220x312.jpeg\" width=\"220\" height=\"312\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artwork produced by dementia sufferers and their carers will be showcased from 13 to 19 October at the Norwegian Church Art Gallery, overlooking the Cardiff Bay barrage.\u00a0 The paintings, drawings and craftwork provides the carers and dementia sufferers an artistic therapy to express their identity. The\u00a0company running the event, Solace Cardiff, champions the artistic rights of dementia sufferers. They do not indicate who the work was produced by, so it is open to interpretation.\u00a0 Helen Joy, the Art Facilitator from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":252,"featured_media":21735,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-21712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Dementia sufferers embrace therapeutic art - alt.cardiff<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2014\/10\/17\/dementia-sufferers-embrace-therapeutic-art\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dementia sufferers embrace therapeutic art - alt.cardiff\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Artwork produced by dementia sufferers and their carers will be showcased from 13 to 19 October at the Norwegian Church Art Gallery, overlooking the Cardiff Bay barrage.\u00a0 The paintings, drawings and craftwork provides the carers and dementia sufferers an artistic therapy to express their identity. 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