About the Workshops

In autumn 2025 artist Daniel Regan will be running 5 in-person creative workshops at QUEERCIRCLE in London, specifically for LGBTQIA+ adults that have experience of being estranged from their family.

Who is running these workshops?

Daniel Regan

Daniel Regan

The 5 workshops are run by Daniel Regan. Daniel is a visual artist & creative health consultant working across the sector. Daniel has his own personal experience of being estranged from his family.

For over 20 years he has specialised in the exploration of complex emotional experiences through the arts. His work explores themes of disability, heritage, belonging & what it means to be human.

His work is informed by his intersectional identities as a queer, disabled and neurodivergent person of mixed white British and Jamaican heritage.

Daniel creates deeply personal artworks, devises & facilitates socially engaged creative projects and provides consultancy & more across the creative health sector.

Daniel is also the founder & Director of Arts & Health Hub, a non-profit organisation supporting artists that are exploring health & wellbeing in their creative practice.

Artist Alexandra Stenberg will be supporting Daniel in these workshops.

Why are these workshops running?

These workshops are part of a wider project exploring themes of belonging and unbelonging run by Daniel. You can read more about the project here. These workshops are supported and funded by QUEERCIRCLE and Arts Council England.

What happens in the workshops?

The purpose of the workshops is to provide space to creatively explore our experiences of family estrangement, including touching on themes of loss, reclaiming our power, reimagining what and who constitutes as our family members, and to provide peer to peer support through the sharing of resources.

Each workshop will include:

Practical info: