What does it look like to have both a “healthy” diet and a “healthy” relationship with food and exercise? And as a parent, how do you foster these in your child when you don’t know yourself?
To mark eating disorder awareness week artist and mental health advocate Lottie Bolster will be discussing her artwork inspired by her experiences of parenting whilst in recovery from an eating disorder.
Lottie will be showing pieces form Weaning Works and Balance, two photography projects currently on display in the HeArts Gallery, Torbay Hospital, and providing exclusive access to more personal works from both series which will not be on display elsewhere.
Throughout the exhibition Lottie will be present to share her story and the inspiration behind the work, listen to your story and discuss how, together we can change harmful narratives around food and exercise" .
About Lottie
Lottie Bolster is a visual artist and mental health advocate. She uses a range of media to present human stories which counter stereotypes and challenge ideas about (ill)health. Since becoming a parent her practice has focused on her own story of motherhood and mental health through photography.
During her pregnancy Lottie relapsed into disordered eating. She was acutely aware as a parent in her thirties that she was not the stereotypical thin, female, adolescent sufferer. Most sufferers are not. In telling her story Lottie hopes to broaden the societal understanding of eating disorders and those who experience them.
As well as her arts practice Lottie works for the NHS, using her lived experience to improve adult eating disorder services.
Lottie has a background in science, with an undergraduate degree in Physiology from Oxford and an MSc in Clinical Neuroscience from Kings College London. She began her training as an artist at Central Saint Martin’s graduating with an MA in Art and Science in 2020. Lottie has exhibited in the UK and internationally, including at CERN (Switzerland), Tate Modern and Somerset House.
Open 10am - 3pm each day. No booking needed.
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