Curie Scott

Curie Scott is a coach, artist, writer, consultant educator and researcher. She specialises in embodied cognition through creative making. Her reflective workshops using expressive drawing, making-by-hand, and metaphor reconnects people to their bodies and surrounding environment. She is currently writing a commissioned book on Drawing for Health and Wellbeing. Her expertise of drawing for wellbeing is underpinned by a PhD in Drawing for perceptions of self-ageing; 18+ years teaching health professional students in Higher Education (HE); and her training in sciences as a medical doctor with a pharmacology degree. Her unusual status as both a medical doctor and academic doctor brings credibility across Science and Artistic disciplines. Her creative teaching practice led to a Teaching Award and Senior Fellowship of the HE academy. Other awards have supported a month visit in Brazil, funded workshops and international conference presentations. She is on the advisory board of the Health Humanities Network; an invited speaker for the Thinking Through Drawing conference; and was on the organising committee of the International Meeting on Origami in Science, Mathematics and Education. She enjoyed being on television, on Make Craft Britain, a programme all about Making. She launched ‘Drawing Edges’, bringing drawing practitioners, academics and researchers together to debate all things ‘drawing’ who also exhibited in a pop-up exhibition alongside the prestigious Jerwood Drawing Prize. As an artist, she enjoys both loose, expressive work using inks, watercolours and acrylics as well as precise work through calligraphic line and origami. Curie facilitates individual and group workshops for personal and professional development. Examples include collages, projective timelines, community drawing projects. Curie is convinced though many say they “can’t draw” or “are not creative” there is much to be gained by re-engaging with our surroundings through drawing.