FAQ What is Sandman Mattresses? Sandman Mattresses is an installation, sculptural exhibition and online mediation created by Teal Griffin and Charles Robert Harrison based (loosely) on mythology surrounding the Sandman. The installation takes the form of a mattress showroom & shopfront and is the culmination of conversations and collaborative making over the last two years. What is the background to this? The project has felt primarily like an excuse to work together as we felt there were interesting crossovers between our work. The initial idea started as an informal conversation on the front seat of the top deck of a double decker bus after getting lost and jumping on trampolines. We have been meeting, talking and working together on the project since then. What is Crappy Realism? Crappy Realism is a term first (or most recently) used by artist Rosa Doornenbal to describe a current tendency for artwork which is highly realistic and recognisable in form, but the construction uses crappy materials, techniques or effects. If you were a mattress, what mattress would you be? A bit old and tired. Sweat stained, but not to the extent of disgust. Pretty comforting at the end of the day. What's on offer at Sandman Mattresses? A range of things, from the world's most breathable pillow to a fully automated office. Sleep / Dream Advice The best (and worst) dreams always start with sleep. How can I purchase a mattress and / or other products? Please contact us with your enquiry Why is the shop located here? Partly because the space was available, but it does fit in quite well and the surroundings have certainly influences the design of the installation. Who is Sandman? What is the relationship to set design? Is Sandman Mattresses closing down? How is scale and repetition used in your process? How long will this go on for? How do you approach branding? What do I do if I'm unsatisfied with my experience?

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Testing Situations About Blog Events Team Partners Protocal Minutes Search Results More Testing Situations is a public engagement project that inhabits, adapts and reflects on cognitive testing methods and artistic experimentation. The purpose of these screenings, workshops and events is to explore how it feels to be tested, whilst also considering the possibilities for artistic and expressive activities as alternative routes for assessment and diagnosis. Testing Situations is funded by a Public Engagement Grant awarded by the Wellcome Trust. We are also working alongside the RDS Impact Study - a 5-year research project investigating the impact of Rare Dementia Support (RDS) group services for individuals living with, or affected by, rare dementias. Contributions made by participants in the project are anonymous, however there will be multiple forms of record produced: We will be collecting diversity and monitoring information in order to assess the impact of our events. These forms will be hugely helpful for evaluation of the project. We would like to document the events through photography. If you do not want to be included in this documentation, please talk to a member of the project team. We would like to record some conversations and discussions with an audio recorder. These recordings are made to help the project team evaluate the project. The recordings will not be made public although anonymous, transcribed quotations from participants may be used to communicate key learning outputs to the general public and funders. Participants in workshops will be asked to produce drawings and other creative outputs. These creative outputs will remain anonymous but may be presented as a whole to the general public in the form of exhibitions and public displays. If participants do not want their creative outputs to be displayed, please seal them in the envelope provided at the end of the session. Information, artistic outputs and data collected as part of the project will be securely stored and archived and may be used to develop further research in this area. Participants will be issued with a card containing a reference number and contact details for the project. You may withdraw your contributions at a later date by quoting this reference. Participants in these activities are not being assessed and there are no right or wrong answers. Participation is not mandatory, and you are free to withdraw from the activities at any time. The activities are being trialled and developed and we welcome feedback to improve the project. We want to critically engage with the experience of testing, but we also want to have fun, so rule-breaking and adaptation is encouraged!

Home About Natural Resources This series of projects is exploring documentation, skills development, ecology, public sculpture and creative community leadership, primarily based in South Lincolnshire. This section shows some initial evolutions in artistic practice around photography, slow making, performance and learning alongside plans for an artist residency & development programme which hopes to support rural creatives and communities. Photographic Studies, 2021-present Documentation of objects and places Gallery Walk, 2025 Artist residency and development programme (funding TBC) Sculpture / painting studies, 2020-present Clay-making, pottery, painting and sculpture. Pumping station mapping Work in progress Water testing, 2019 Water sample testing workshop for News Seasonal School Conditions for Ongoingness, 2018 Workshop documentation Back to Sculpture, Installation & Intervention On to Interdisciplinary Projects

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Profiles in Paint 2014 - present Paintings could offer insight into the varied experiences of people with different dementias. In this project, a single exercise – the painting of a group of objects in still-life – was used to capture artistic production in four artists with different diagnoses of dementia and four healthy artists. Whilst quantitative studies provide important insights into the neuroanatomical supports for artistic actions, autonomous art exercises may yield deeper understanding of the individual creative experience in the context of neurodegenerative disease. Find the full text here Back

Natural Resources Home About Conditions for Ongoingness (Documentation) 2018 Conditions for Ongoingness was a project furthering investigation into the symbiotic nature of human and non-human systems. The exhibition at Jupiter Woods reflected on a two-day permaculture workshop led by artist and environmentalist Charles Pryor in October 2017 and new works by invited artists considered our entwined relationship with the environment and with each other. More information here Previous Project Natural Resources Homepage

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Testing Situations About Blog Events Team Partners Protocal Minutes Search Results More 2020 7th February 2020 11am-3pm - Testing Situations at The National Innovation Centre of Ageing, Newcastle Join us at National Innovation Centre of Ageing and share your experiences of dementia, assessment and art. Over the last year, artist Charles Harrison and the Testing Situations team have been touring around the UK to learn more about people's experiences of being tested.For this final showcase event Testing Situations will be presenting an exhibition of learning from the tour alongside screenings of 3 artistic films made by, or in collaboration with people living with dementia. In the morning session we will hear from speakers about their experiences and watch three short films. This will be followed by a panel discussion and audience Q&A. In the afternoon session you will be invited to engage with artistic outputs from the project and take part in a drawing and mark-making workshop. The event is open to all and may be particularly relevant for people who have received a diagnosis of dementia, carers and for researchers, artists and film-makers working with themes of ageing, creativity and care. READ MORE The Testing Situations exhibition will also be on display 10-4pm, Saturday 8th February. This event has been funded by a Wellcome Public Engagement Grant, working in collaboration Rare Dementia Support, UCL and Newcastle University. Some aspects of these activities may be filmed, photographed or recorded with an audio device. Please click here for more information. 2019 PAST EVENTS MAY St George’s Hospital Young Onset Dementia Support Group Date: 29th May, 6:30pm-8:30pm Description: As part of this regular meeting of people affected by young onset dementia, we will be screening the ‘Neva’, a film made in collaboration with members of rare dementia support groups. The screening will be followed by conversation about people’s experiences of cognitive testing and an object handling session inspired by objects seen in the film (approx. 30mins). The aim of this work is to better understand the experience of testing and for this to contribute to improving clinical methods in the future. Location: John Parker Lecture Theatre at St George's Hospital, Blackshaw Rd, Tooting, London SW17 0QT Places for this event are limited, if you would like more information about the group or would be interested in coming along please contact Nicola.Zimmermann@stgeorges.nhs.uk (Suitable for 10-25 participants) Flyer / Map JUNE Carer Support Group, Epsom Date: 4th June, 6:30pm-8:30pm Description: As part of this regular meeting of carers of people living with dementia, we will be screening the ‘Neva’, a film made in collaboration with members of rare dementia support groups. The screening will be followed by conversation about people’s experiences of cognitive testing and an object handling session inspired by objects seen in the film (approx. 30mins). The aim of this work is to better understand the experience of testing and for this to contribute to improving clinical methods in the future. Location: Orchard Centre, Appleby House, Longmead Road, Ewell KT19 9RX Places for this event are limited, if you would like more information about the group of would be interested in coming along please contact claire.robertson54@gmail.com (Suitable for 10-25 participants) Hertfordshire PCA Support Group Date: 12th June, (1-3pm) Description: As part of this regular meeting for people affected by Posterior Cortical Atrophy (PCA), we will be screening the ‘Neva’, a film made in collaboration with members of rare dementia support groups. The screening will be followed by conversation about people’s experiences of cognitive testing and an object handling session inspired by objects seen in the film (approx. 1hour). The aim of this work is to better understand the experience of testing and for this to contribute to improving clinical methods in the future. Location: St Andrew's Church, 37 Quickley Lane, Chorleywood, Hertfordshire WD3 5AE Places for this event are limited, if you would like more information about the group of would be interested in coming along please contact: r.mckee-jackson@ucl.ac.uk (Suitable for 10-25 participants) Kent Young Ones Date: 19th June, 10am-12noon Description: As part of this regular meeting of people affected by young onset dementia, we will be screening the ‘Neva’, a film made in collaboration with members of rare dementia support groups. The screening will be followed by conversation about people’s experiences of cognitive testing and an object handling session inspired by objects seen in the film (approx. 30mins). The aim of this work is to better understand the experience of testing and for this to contribute to improving clinical methods in the future. This will be a private event so unfortunately there aren't any places available. SYL @ #BrainPower: UCL Neuroscience Festival Date: 22nd June, 11am-5pm Description: Brain Power will be a whole day of public events showcasing the best of neuroscience at UCL, including interactive stalls, talks, short films, artworks, live demonstrations, storytelling, and workshops. At this event we will be presenting research and artworks looking at artistic gestures in relation to balance and movement produced as part of trials at UCL Whole Body Sensorimotor Laboratory. Single Yellow Lines will also be trialling a new interactive activity for public engagement, inviting visitors to paint single yellow lines in virtual reality. Location: The Cloisters, University College London, Gower Street, London. WC1E 6BT This event is open to the public, please drop in. (Suitable for 100+ participants) JULY Alexandra Palace – Transmitter Hall Date: 16th July, Time 2pm-4:30pm Description: Alexandra Palace Charitable Trust is a Grade II listed entertainment and sports venue in London. Thanks to Heritage Lottery Funding, the palace has established a programme of activities that supports people who are living with dementia and their carers. We will be working alongside established dementia groups and networks at Alexandra Palace and in the first session we will be screening the ‘Neva’, a film made in collaboration with members of rare dementia support groups. The screening will be followed by conversation about people’s experiences of cognitive testing and object handling inspired by objects seen in the film (approx. 1hour). Following refreshments, we will invite participants to reflect on testing roles and new research through a series of drawing exercises (approx. 1hour). Drawings produced will form part of an exhibition at Alexandra palace taking place in November. Location: Transmitter Hall, Alexandra Palace, Alexandra Palace Way, London N22 7AY (Map ) (Suitable for 20-50 participants) Places are limited, for more information and to register for the event please contact charlesrobertharrison@gmail.com or phone 07824778390 . All are welcome to participate or observe but please be aware that some aspects of these sessions may not be suitable for everyone. AUGUST Unique Cottage Studios, Spalding Date: 9th & 10th August, 10am-4pm Description: This will be a two-day drop-in exhibition and event, where visitors to this beautiful rural arts facility will be able to watch and talk about the ‘Neva’, a film made in collaboration with members of rare dementia support groups. Visitors will also be invited to take part in our drawing activities, reflecting on testing roles and new research themes, whilst contributing to conversations about cognitive testing and art. Location: Unique Cottage Studios, Fulney Ln, Spalding, Lincolnshire PE12 6FA This event is open to the public, please drop in. (Suitable for 100+ participants) SEPTEMBER Glasgow CCA - Club Room & Cinema Date: 16th September, 10am-2pm Description: The Centre for Contemporary Arts is an arts centre in Glasgow, Scotland offering a year-round programme including exhibitions, film, music, literature, spoken word, festivals, Gaelic and performance. The first day of public engagement at Glasgow CCA will focus on historical developments in cognitive testing and the ways this area might cross over with contemporary art. Project lead Charlie Harrison will give an introduction to his work in this area, which has been developed as part of the Created Out of Mind residency at the Wellcome Collection. This introduction will be followed by a screening, object handling activity and conversation about the ‘Neva’, a film made in collaboration with members of rare dementia support groups which responds to a test of reading devised by Emeritus Professor Elizabeth K Warrington. The afternoon session will invite participants to reflect on testing roles and new research through a series of drawing and writing exercises and we will discuss how artistic content for Testing Situations should be interpreted, stored and presented to the public. (Lunch will be provided). Location: Glasgow CCA, 350 Sauchiehall St, Glasgow G2 3JD (Suitable for 20-60 participants) To book a place, please follow link in title above. Living well with dementia - Leeds Date: Wednesday 25 September 2019 Description: As part of an event co-produced by Every Third Minute Festival Curators and West Yorkshire Playhouse, Testing Situations will be presenting the ‘Neva’, a film made in collaboration with members of rare dementia support groups. Visitors will also be invited to take part in our drawing activities, reflecting on testing roles and new research themes, whilst contributing to conversations about cognitive testing and art. Location: The Met Hotel Leeds, King Street, Leeds LS1 2HQ This event is fully booked. Glasgow CCA - Club Room & Cinema Date: 30th September, 10am-2pm Description: The second day of public engagement at Glasgow CCA will focus on how gesture, artistic action and embodiment can be observed using motion capture systems, data analysis and virtual reality. The day will begin with an introduction to the Single Yellow Lines project and its development through collaborations with researchers at UCL Whole Body Sensorimotor Laboratory and participants in research trials investigating balance and movement for people with posterior cortical atrophy (a rare dementia affecting visual perception) and typical Alzheimer’s disease. We will consider the extent to which artistic actions can be interpreted and analysed, exploring the multiple forms of data produced in the research. The afternoon session will begin with screenings of a data-produced film, reflecting the bodies of participants in the trials with motion analysis and physiological responses converted into video and sound. Following this, we will trial a new interactive activity for public engagement, inviting participants in the workshop to paint single yellow lines in virtual reality. The day will finish with a short discussion. (Lunch will be provided). Location: Glasgow CCA, 350 Sauchiehall St, Glasgow G2 3JD (Suitable for 20-60 participants) To book a place, please follow link in title above OCTOBER Testing Situations at Bloomsbury Festival Date: Saturday 19th October 10am-4pm Location: Lumen URC , Community Room 1, 88 Tavistock Pl, Kings Cross, London WC1H 9RS Description: For Bloomsbury Festival, Testing Situations will be contributing a drop-in exhibition and series of events, including screenings of the ‘Neva’, a film made in collaboration with members of Rare Dementia Support groups and researchers at UCL Dementia Research Centre as part of the Created Out of Mind Residency at Wellcome Collection. Visitors will also be invited to take part in drawing activities, reflecting on testing roles and new research themes, whilst contributing to conversations and discussion about the experience of cognitive testing and art. Click here for more information This event is open to the public, please drop in. (Suitable for 100+ participants) Single Yellow Lines at Barbican Centre Date: 23rd-27th October Location: Barbican Centre, Silk St, Barbican, London EC2Y 8DS Description: Drop into the Hub for Life Rewired and take part in a live experiment that incorporates real world mark-making and virtual painting environments. Artist Charles Harrison invites you to paint your single yellow line in this Hub take-over that explores the characteristics of singular painted gestures. This event will also include a one-day audio-visual installation in the Level G studio on 26th October. Click here for more information This event is open to the public, please drop in. (Suitable for 100+ participants) NOVEMBER Taking Care. Fabrica, Brighton Presented in partnership with ESRC Festival of Social Science. Date: November 4th, 10am-4pm Location: Fabrica Gallery, 40 Duke St, Brighton BN1 1AG Description: Fabrica is a visual arts organisation based in a former Regency church in the heart of Brighton. In conjunction with Care(less) , an exhibition by artist Lindsay Seers, the Testing Situations team will consider how cognitive tests help us understand how the human mind works by leading visitors through a series of testing experiences and drawing activities. Click here for more information (Suitable for 100+ participants) Grainger Market, Newcastle Date: November 14th, 10am-4pm Description: Grainger Market is a bustling Market Hall dating from 1835. Testing Situations will be offering a range of drop-in events, including screenings and conversations about the ‘Neva’, a film about testing and narration, made in collaboration with members of Rare Dementia Support groups and researchers at UCL Dementia Research Centre. Visitors will also be invited to take part in a series of drawing activities, reflecting on testing roles and new research themes. Location: Grainger St, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 5QQ This event is open to the public, please drop in. (Suitable for 100+ participants)

Charles Harrison is an artist based in London, working with painting, sculpture and installation. Home Contact B. 1986, based in Nottingham and London. Charlie Harrison is an artist, curator and creative health researcher working across contemporary art, neuroscience and public engagement. His art practice remodels common forms, drawing attention to perceptual fragility through distortions of material and sensual codes. Sculptural works are usually poorly fabricated and often placed within unsuspecting public environments. Recent developments have moved towards documentation, slow making and drawing. Charlie often works through collaboration and his artistic methods and conceptual understanding have shaped alongside artists, curators, social scientists, neuropsychologists, motor-neuroscientists and people living with rare dementias. Some of these collaborations have particularly focussed on the historical development, values and deficiencies of standardised testing methods and have led to novel social science and arts and health research funded by Wellcome Trust, University College London (UCL) and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). Charlie works at UCL Institute of Neurology, contributing to research, education, public and patient involvement and coordinating health and wellbeing projects alongside people living with rare dementias through the Rare Space community venture. Charlie also manages the planned Gallery Walk artist residency and development programme in South Lincolnshire. Selected Exhibitions and Events 2025 Der Augenring , MAUVE, Vienna. Oct-Nov 2025 Mascara Film Club 33 , Sessions House, Spalding, March 2025 2024 Speedboat , The Gliderdrome, Boston. August 2024 The Shoe Museum , Outhouse Gallery, London. July 2024 Oracle Opticians , Chemist Gallery, London. June-July 2024 2023 Neptune's Laundrette , Art Lacuna, London. Oct-Nov 2023 Talking Lines , Drawing Room, London. Oct-Dec 2023 2022 Understanding Intelligence, Open House , PRAKSIS, Oslo. Dec 2022 Ghost Show , Copeland Park, London, Oct 2022 I Have Eaten It , Refettorio Felix, London. Feb 2022 2021 Sandman Mattresses. 61 Rollins St, London. April/May 2021 2019 B18_0103-0107 . Barbican Centre, London. October 2019 H2OME TESTING for N — E º W ˝( S ) Seasonal School, Jupiter Woods. London March 2019 Testing Situations. Jupiter Woods, London Jan/Feb 2019 2018 Bollards . Deptford X Fringe, London. September 2018 Created Out of Mind Residency Showcase . Wellcome Collection, London. July 2018 Life at the Edges (Extremophile Conference Performer). Science Gallery, Dublin. June 2018 Overground . Nigel, London. May 2018 Normal? Festival of the Brain . Quarterhouse, Folkestone. May 2018 Conditions for Ongoingness// 1.2 The Gathering . Jupiter Woods, London. March/April 2018 ARUK Reframe Dementia . Oxo Gallery, London. March 2018 Trajectories . Lifespace, Dundee. February-June 2018 Wet Paint on Wall . Various Locations, London. December/January 2018 2017 Pint of Science, Dimensions of Dementia . Studio Spaces, London. October 2017 Refused . Various Locations, London/Brighton. July 2017 The Art of Gesture . Wellcome Collection, London. July 2017 We Are All Involved in this Mess . Enclave Lab, London. April, 2017 2016 Bollards . Upper Brockley Road, London. December 2016 #7 . The Koop Project, Brighton. July 2016 Lost in Thought . Science Museum, London. April 2016 Friendship Rules . The Quadrant, Brighton. February 2016. 2015 A Rational Question . TrafalgarWorks, Portslade. June 2015 CRH . TrafalgarWorks, Portslade. June 2015 2014 WP70 . Community Arts Centre, Brighton. November 2014 ArtNeuro . The Rag Factory, London. November 2014 Horror Hotel . Ghost Train on the Pier, Brighton. October 2014 WP43 . Community Arts Centre, Brighton. May 2014 Important Information . Neue Froth Kunsthalle, Hove. March 2014 2013 Work Programme 17 . Community Arts Centre, Brighton. May 2013 2010 Nature:Humanity:Technology . Inham Hall, Wisbech St Mary. June 2010 NEWS Current exhibition at MAUVE, Vienna Clive from accounts & Sandman Mattresses (album cover collaboration) Listen: Oracle Opticians conversation with Rebecca Edwards Read: Oracle Opticians article in Post Art Clarity Co-authored Research Papers & Press ‘Talking lines’: the stories of diagnosis and support as told by those with lived experience of rare forms of dementia, 2024 Talking Lines: A Research Protocol Integrating Verbal and Visual Narratives to Understand the Experiences of People Affected by Rarer Forms of Dementia, International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 2023 Contributions of patient a nd citizen researchers to ‘Am I the right way up?’ st udy of balance in posterior cortical atrophy and typical Alzheimer’s disease . Dementia, 2018 Mobile Brain-Body Imaging and the Neuroscience of Art, Innovation and Creativity. (book chapter). Springer, November 2019 Conceptualising and Understanding Artistic Creativity in the Dementias: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Research and Practice . Frontiers in Psychology, September 2018. Exploring dementia through art and science. Fergus Walsh, BBC News, May 2018 Profiles in paint: contrasting responses to a common artistic exercise by people with different dementias. Arts & Health, November 2017 Preparatory planning framework for Created Out of Mind: Shaping perceptions of dementia through art and science. Wellcome Open Research, November 2017 The lines are open: An artist’s experience of working with dementia research. Dementia, October 2017 Forgetting but not gone: dementia and the arts . Philip Ball, The Observer, March 2017 Object & Display. Dupe, The Dark Issue. May 2014 Links & Education Rare Space - Website Dementia and the Arts: Sharing Practice, Developing Understanding and Enhancing Lives - Online course The Many Faces of Dementia - Online Course Rare Dementia Support - Website Commercial painting