Liz Atkin – WHIS Ambassador and International Advocacy

I aim to raise awareness and advocate for Compulsive Skin Picking and mental illness through public talks, specialist commissions, residencies and exhibitions. My story and art has been profiled in features and interviews for BBC Breakfast, BBC World Service Outlook, BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour, Al Jazeera TV and BBC Arabic TV’s art programme Afaq. My work has also featured in an article on Body Dysmorphic Disorder and art for VICE UK (Dec 2015), Diva Magazine (Feb 2016) and Marie Claire UK (2016). In 2016 I was a keynote speaker at the Global Conference for Skin Picking and Hair Pulling Dis keynote address at the Global Conference for Skin Picking and Hair Pulling Disorders in Dallas for TLC Foundation BFRBs.

In the UK I have also spoken for Critical Voices Conference, Depression Alliance, Dragon Café / Mental Fight Club, Royal Society of Public Health. Most recently I was part of discussion panel for Changing Minds, a festival for mental health at Southbank Centre.  International advocacy includes a week in California in October 2015 to coincide with my first USA solo exhibition at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine.  I spoke to medical students and health professionals at Keck School of Medicine at Univerity of Southern California, dance students atUniversity of California: Santa Barbara and patients at The OCD Center of Los Angeles.  

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