Chris Dooks
Podcaster Content Provider @Scottish Book Trust
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WORK HISTORY
Podcaster Content Provider @Scottish Book Trust
Edinburgh, GB
As part of Scotland\'s Year of Stories, Scottish Book Trust brings Scotland\'s Stories: Community Campfires – a new series of story making residences in communities across Scotland
EDUCATION
Edinburgh College of Art
2.1 Film and Tv, Broadcast Documentary, Fine Art, Video Installations
University of the West of Scotland
Research Doctorate, Practice Based Research
ABOUT CHRIS DOOKS
I am an interdisciplinary artist and post-doctoral researcher based in Edinburgh, where I specialise in practical medical humanities work and philosophical art processes. I’ve been a part-time digital art tutor for many years as well as a funded photographer / filmmaker / sound artist since 1995. In 2015, I finished my five-year long doctorate in order to develop practical, transferrable ideas for those who are interested in improving their wellbeing through methods and media not previously offered to them. I specialise in encouraging an arts-based path to navigate what can be miserable circumstances of chronic health, or simply to improve anyone’s wellbeing. Also in 2015, I started to offer and tailor ‘creative wellbeing clinics’ in Scotland and beyond, as well as remaining an artist in residence in various communities around Europe. As an artist, I’ve worked with people with severe visual impairment, schizophrenia, bi-polar disorder, ME-CFS, depression and anxiety. My experience is broad; I’ve worked in schools, community centres and visited housebound clients including senior citizens from both well-off and struggling backgrounds. Today, my being an artist with a doctorate allows me to offer a thoroughly broad range of interventions, projects and workshops underpinned by precedents in lesser-known art histories. My published thesis and related vinyl records document creative strategies regarding the illness Myalgic Encephalomyelitis or CFS-ME, asking how such an art practice may serve to offset or augment the relationship between the cultural practitioner and the illness. I am married to an author and we have an effervescent boy and cheeky baby girl.
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