{"id":419565,"date":"2026-02-11T08:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T08:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/419565\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T08:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T08:17:07","slug":"surrey-art-therapy-works-go-on-display-at-house-of-commons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/419565\/","title":{"rendered":"Surrey art therapy works go on display at House of Commons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The art workshops, run by mental health service provider Mindworks, allow people supported by the service to express themselves creatively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The artist &#8211; who said they went to the workshops once a week &#8211; said their work was based on the film Wicked: For Good, starring Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Epsom MP Helen Maguire opened the exhibition in the House of Commons on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rebecca Robertson, a specialist mental health and art therapist with Stars, said: &#8220;Art making can provide an important alternative to more traditional verbal therapies and can be a vital part of helping young people to engage in support, particularly when working with trauma.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The &#8216;Know Yourself, Grow Yourself&#8217; exhibition gives children and young people under our Stars and New Leaf services the opportunity to express their thoughts and feelings around their life experiences using art materials. &#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The art workshops, run by mental health service provider Mindworks, allow people supported by the service to express&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-419565","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-design","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}