Latest exhibition...
Places I Swim 4th-16th Feb 2025
Solo exhibition, “Places I Swim”, a celebration of art, wellbeing, and wild swimming through oil paintings & mixed media sketches.
📅 Exhibition Dates: 4th–16th February (closed Mondays)
⏰ Time: 11 AM–6 PM daily
📍 Where: The Gallery at The Playroom,
99 Junction Rd, Archway, N19 5QX
(4 mins walk from Archway Tube).
Each day will feature events, including live painting, wellbeing workshops and mindful drawing classes.
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About
Emily Wood Ramirez Ahmed
A practising artist and community engagement worker with over 25 years of experience, Emily creates from her home studio in North London. Her work spans drawing, painting, textile and mixed media sculpture and community arts faciltation. Her art projects are often focussed on social, environmental and cultural impact and celebrate her mixed British, Mexican, and Native American Yaqui Yoeme culture and heritage.
Emily’s latest exhibition, “Places I Swim,” is a celebration of art, wellbeing, and wild swimming. A keen swimmer, Emily finds mindful calm and inspiration in the coast, rivers, reservoirs and lakes, drawing on landscapes and favourite swimming spots from across the UK and beyond to inform her creative practice.
Art and Community Engagement
Beyond her personal art practice, Emily is deeply involved in community engagement and qualitative research. She collaborates with the NHS, local governments, universities, and charities to promote service-user engagement and co-production in health research and services. Her innovative use of creative methods enables her to connect meaningfully with diverse groups, using art as a tool for research, reflection, advocacy, and well-being.
Emily’s arts facilitation work includes mindful drawing classes at Wolves Lane Centre in North London, annual workshops at Shambala Music Festival, and bespoke arts projects for organisations such as Solace Women’s Refuge and the University of Southampton.
Qualifications and Achievements
Academic achievements include:
• MA Applied Anthropology, Community & Youth Work – Goldsmiths University
• BA Honours in American History – Sussex University
• Certificates in Arts Psychotherapy, Arts Management, and Creative Arts for People with Learning Disabilities
• Diploma in Foundation Arts and Design – Brighton City College
Emily is also the founder of Wearable CIC, a sustainable fashion network in North London; lead for the ICPHR International Collaboration for Participatory Health Research Arts Based Working Group; an accredited Arts Award Advisor; has served as a trustee for an international children’s art charity and as an advisor for arts and mental health advocacy projects both in the UK and internationally.
