Improving the Lives of Cancer
Patients with Art Therapy 

Supporting Education and Practice

 

The Corinne Burton Memorial Trust is the only charity in the UK that supports the practice of art psychotherapy for cancer care. Our work includes a scholarship at Goldsmiths for Art Therapists specializing in cancer care, the direct support of art therapy positions in hospitals, and supporting the field through publication of materials and books. The Trust was founded by Sir Michael Burton QC, following the death of his artist and illustrator wife Corinne from cancer, in 1992.

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The Corinne Burton Memorial Trust Scholarship

To help ensure that there are enough qualified art psychotherapists, the CBMT scholarship provides funding for art psychotherapy students at Goldsmiths University London specializing in cancer care.

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Direct Support of Art Therapy
Positions in Hospitals

In partnership with the NHS, CBMT art therapists currently practice in the Cancer Centre at Barts Hospital in London, where in addition to their core work with patients, they are also working on important areas of research, and providing support for medical staff.

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Publications and Books in the Field

To help support the development of the field of art psychotherapy for cancer care, we support the publication of new materials in the space. To celebrate the 25th anniversary of CBMT, we published our own book, pulling together the stories and experiences CBMT alumni in their practice of art therapy in the UK.

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““The Corinne Burton Memorial Trust scholarship...has made an “incalculable contribution” to the field of art therapy in cancer care.” ”

— Tom Morgan, Goldsmiths

Stories from CBMT Art Therapists: the following (from one of the CBMT alumni) is an excerpt from the CBMT 25th Anniversary Book. Over the next year, we’ll be sharing an excerpt every month. ⠀ ⠀ Sam Dobbs-Jones⠀ ⠀ Providing art therapy in pallia
Stories from CBMT Art Therapists: the following (from one of the CBMT alumni) is an excerpt from the CBMT 25th Anniversary Book. Over the next year, we’ll be sharing an excerpt every month. ⠀ ⠀ Poppy R Stevens⠀ ⠀ Tim: a vignette of practice.⠀ I
Stories from CBMT Art Therapists: the following (from one of the CBMT alumni) is an excerpt from the CBMT 25th Anniversary Book. Over the next year, we’ll be sharing an excerpt every month. ⠀ ⠀ Claire-Louise Leyland⠀ ⠀ It has been twenty years
Thank you to everyone who joined us for the Mad Hatter’s Zoom Tea Party on Sunday, raising almost £1500 for the Trust! Some truly amazing hats were made. Thank you Lorna Cohen for organizing!
Suggested donation is £20 per family. https://buff.ly/3lsOStV
Stories from CBMT Art Therapists: the following (from one of the CBMT alumni) is an excerpt from the CBMT 25th Anniversary Book. Over the next year, we’ll be sharing an excerpt every month. ⠀ ⠀ Natasha Bourgaize⠀ ⠀ I have found trying to find m
Stories from CBMT Art Therapists: the following (from one of the CBMT alumni) is an excerpt from the CBMT 25th Anniversary Book. Over the next year, we’ll be sharing an excerpt every month. ⠀ ⠀ Megan Tjasink⠀ ⠀ Being a therapist⠀ One of the mos
Stories from CBMT Art Therapists: the following (from one of the CBMT alumni) is an excerpt from the CBMT 25th Anniversary Book. Over the next year, we’ll be sharing an excerpt every month. ⠀ ⠀ Hannah Cridford⠀ ⠀ The clinical work with my adult
Stories from CBMT Art Therapists: the following (from one of the CBMT alumni) is an excerpt from the CBMT 25th Anniversary Book. Over the next year, we’ll be sharing an excerpt every month. ⠀ ⠀ Andy Ridley⠀ ⠀ Until now, I have often recorded th
Stories from CBMT Art Therapists: the following (from one of the CBMT alumni) is an excerpt from the CBMT 25th Anniversary Book. Over the next year, we’ll be sharing an excerpt every month.⠀ Rose Woodlock⠀ There are some emotional worlds that n
Happy to share that @rarityanna (Corinne’s sister), who lives in Kenya, just had this artwork accepted into an exhibition at one of Kenya’s top contemporary art galleries, One Off Gallery in Nairobi. Congratulations Anna!
Following on from last week's post, some additional photos from our 25th anniversary celebration. We hope everyone is doing okay and staying safe.

Contact

Feel free to contact us with any questions.

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