Interdisciplinary Creative Practice with People with Dementia in Care Settings

Jayne Lloyd

Research Project
2012 – Present
Supervisor: Professor Helen Nicholson

The research explores Age Exchange Theatre Trust’s use of reminiscence and interdisciplinary arts (theatre, music, fine art and movement and dance) practices in care settings with people with dementia. It will form the qualitative evaluation for Reminiscence Arts and Dementia – Impact on Quality of Life (RADIQL), a three year programme created by Age Exchange and funded by Guy’s and St Thomas’s Charity. The research includes observations of Age Exchange practitioners alongside three of Jayne’s own practice-based interventions. Key areas of research include, the reciprocity of the work, the performativity of the care setting, the embedding of reminiscence into the arts process and the creative dialogue between practitioners from different disciplinary backgrounds and between their work in the care setting and their broader practice.

Jayne Lloyd is first year practice-based PhD candidate in the Theatre and Drama Department sponsored by Age Exchange Theatre Trust. Prior to starting the PhD, she worked as part of a research team led by Professor Helen Nicholson, evaluating Age Exchange’s reminiscence arts projects in SLAM care settings across South London. She has 10 years’ experience in community engagement, development and facilitation roles, working with people from a wide variety of backgrounds, age groups and with a range of learning needs. She graduated from Byam Shaw, St Martin’s, University of the Arts London, with an MA in Fine Art in 2010. She has a studio with Bow Arts Trust and regularly exhibits and completes site-specific commissions and residencies both nationally and internationally.

jayne.lloyd.2012@live.rhul.ac.uk / http://www.jayne-lloyd-artist.co.uk / http://www.age-exchange.org.uk