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Cat Andrew

Artist, arts educator and speech and language therapist based in London

I have worked as an occasional freelance artist and illustrator and comic creator on and off for over thirty years alongside many other jobs.
After a foundation art course at St. Martins School of Art (Now CSM) I have continued my art education in self-practice as well as in adult education at colleges such as The Mary Ward Centre, The City Lit and The Royal Drawing School. I have exhibited my work in both solo and group shows.
I contributed to the RCA Secret exhibition for eight years.
Clients have included the BBC website, Dazeddigital.com, Drystone Chambers, 'Cartoon news' magazine, 'Hog' magazine, City University London as well as charities including logo design for NECT and the 17th International Aphasia Conference.
I am also a speech and language therapist working for Learning Talking in mainstream primary schools working with children aged between 3 and 11 with a range of speech, language and communication difficulties.
I have a City and Guilds qualification in teaching adults and have taught short courses in art and design, comics and cartooning at The Mary Ward Centre, Chat's Palace, and the University of the Arts, London, Wimbledon College.
In 2013 I successfully bid for funding from the British Aphasiology Society for a project teaching observational drawing to people with aphasia. Initially this started as an 8 week course which was so successful that I continued to run monthly workshops at the Freespace Gallery in Kentish Town. This project is now online only.
In 2014 I completes a masters study on teaching drawing to people with aphaisa. I was awarded a distinction for this project. Read more here.
I currently run monthly workshops for people with aphasia, dementia and other neurological conditions at the British Library See more here

See the Facebook page for 'Drawing for People with Aphasia'

Live talk on my project 'Drawing for People with Aphasia'

The future of Drawing for People with Aphasia is uncertain. Please help if you can - donate here or by clicking the button below.

Vietnam

In June 2022 I visited Vietnam as a volunteer for the Trinh Foundation Australia supervising the paediatric clinical placement of the country's first ever cohort to graduate from the masters programme in speech and language therapy.

I took a sketchbook with me to record the trip.

I had the pleasure of meeting Dr. Dien who runs an art and communication group for people with aphasia at the An Binh Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City