Ann Diment Midlothian, United Kingdom

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Based near Edinburgh, Scotland, I completed a Foundation Diploma in Art & Design as a mature student in 2021 after over 20 years as a Health, Safety & Wellbeing practitioner. I am a late diagnosed neurodivergent artist with lived experience of ACE's and cPTSD so I use my creative practice to support my wellbeing, smash the stigma around Mental Health and promote trauma-informed practice.

I have managed projects to commission activites to support welbeing and reduce health inequalities , and also work independantly as an ADHD and resilience coach and inclusion consultant, socially engaged artist, and poet. I support burned out neurodivergent creatives and professionals to break free and burn brighter.

For my college studies I documented my practice on two Tumblr blogs and Instagram regularly (details below)

I work with a range of media and am particularly interested in recycling and repurposing objects that would normally be discarded, to connect a ‘mend and repair’ theme to the conversation about mental health recovery and healing. I also draw inspiration from nature to instil an observational and meditative aspect to my work and have experience as a music and acting performer too.

The process of studying for an Art and Design Foundation diploma enabled me to connect with and release so much past trauma and life experiences and I want to continue this journey as i process my late ADHD diagnosis and help others find their voices, working collaboratively with individuals and communities to co-create art that empowers people who identify as neurodivergent and survivors of adverse childhood events (ACE’s) to express and heal through the visual and performing arts.

I create community art activities to help people start connecting with their wider world and introduce more empathy and compassion for themselves and for those around us, as many will have found the lockdown and other traumas associated with the COVID pandemic difficult to process or articulate.

Recent examples of my work are in the application and examples of my creative writing and film work are here:

NEUK Together Apart exhibition- GLasgow, Project Abiity- particinpating artist and perfomer April-May 2026 (https://www.project-ability.co.uk/exhibitions/together-apart/) Birth Stories poetry workshops- March 2026 (commissioned by Glastonbury Sacred Birth Centre- https://www.sacredbirthcentre.org/birthstory ) - Creating Connections workshops for neurodivergent young people- (commissioned by SEED Sedgemoor February-April 2025 https://seedsedgemoor.com/activities/creating-connections/) Turning the Tables on Burnout' Book published October 2023: https://worksafeandwell.co.uk/turning-the-tables-on-burnout-book/ • Poems included in the 'Watchet Poemscape' project here: https://ralphhoyte.org/augmented-soundscapes/the-quantock-poetry-trail/watchet-poemscape/. • Poems published in 'A room of one's own- Lockdown house' archive of women's writing in response to lockdown (Launched with a perfromance reading at the house of commons, June 2023). : https://roomsofourownthelockdownhouse.v21artspace.com/ • Poem published in ‘Hot Poets Sparks’ book (launching 02/03/23): https://etsy.me/3Ez1I5E • Talk at Artlab- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj1qgpU3TUU End of Year Show 'tour': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YTh8EFECpg • Creating Recovery- audio installation work expressing the healing power of creativity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZMzvyupiUY • ‘Hope’- a film made about the impact of Lockdown on Social Isolation- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyBbjBi4mhI • Time to Change somerset- A film talking to Volunteer Champions about talking about mental health (I am a contributor and read one of my poems)- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DD2ZSZk2A2I • #soundsfromhome online exhibition curated by Amanda Lynch for Arts and Disability charity CEDA. Audio excerpt of a poem and collage shown in the online exhibition on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/p/CFxJ2IVAX-1/ • Workshop Commission from Durham University Student Art Prize Artfund to run two online workshops in February 2021. https://sitcfestival.org/workshops/ • 'Restriction' exhibition from the 'Correspondence Collective' at Clayhill Arts. Creating small pieces of work (3 x 4 cm) that fit into compartments of a letterpress drawer. My pieces are in drawers 1 and 3 here: https://www.correspondencecollective.com/exhibitions • Seed Sedgemoor ‘All the colours’ submitted 2 abstract collages for a curated work turned into a lenticular image by Fiona Campbell and displayed on the Buses of Somerset (Summer 2021) https://seedsedgemoor.com/artfirstgallery/