Published:
6:30 PM May 19, 2021
Artwork by Pamela one of the stroke patients who have taken part in the Seeing Sounds project
- Credit: Free Space Project
Stroke survivors at a Kentish Town wellbeing project boosted their dexterity and communication skills by creating artworks while listening to sound clips - including bird song and the mating call of a haddock.
The Seeing Sound project saw 17 people with aphasia, a language impairment caused by damage to the brain s left side, take part in five Zoom sessions between November 2020 and February 2021.
Participants from the Free Space Project based at Kentish Town Health Centre, and The Brain Charity in Liverpool were sent materials through the post and created dozens of artworks as they visualised sounds from the British Library’s Unlocking Our Sound Heritage project, included chaffinches and tawny owls, woodland streams and the babble of seaside piers.
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