The Willow Project

In Autumn 2026 we co-designed a project with Coombe Wood Mother & Baby Unit, part of CNWL NHS Foundation.

Coombe Wood is a highly regarded specialist perinatal service providing inpatient treatment and support for pregnant and postnatal women experiencing severe mental health and emotional difficulties. This bespoke inpatient unit has been designed to provide a warm, welcoming therapeutic environment that promotes maternal mental health while ensuring the safety of infants and their ongoing development.

The Willow Project took place over a period of 6 weeks, involving staff, mothers and their babies. The project was a series of creative health workshops exploring the power of creative practice to connect, communicate and care for ourselves and others. Each week participants were guided in using new materials, learnt about radical feminist artists (both those exhibited at Two Temple Place, and historical practitioners).  The work was made collaboratively through a flat system of exploration of our creativity Work created during this project will be showcased alongside to our 2027 exhibition, Gathering Rest, to celebrate our community partnership work, and the power of art to support wellbeing and our understanding of the body, health and rest.