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Alongside her artistic practice, Julie is a Community Mental Health Worker for Rethink (formerly the 'National Schizophrenia Fellowship'), the largest severe mental health charity in the UK, and is currently studying for a Masters Degree in Art Psychotherapy Practice at the Northern Programme for Art Psychotherapy in Sheffield.

Julie Atkin
Julie facilitates therapeutic art sessions within the community for people experiencing mental health problems.

She has experience of delivering workshops to young people, engaging them to make the right choices through the exploration of positive and negative emotions and their consequences via art-making activities.

Julie has over 8 years experience teaching art to young offenders & adults in a forensic setting.

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p a s t   e x h i b i t i o n s   2007 Open Art
Doncaster Museum & Art Gallery
  Open Up Sheffield & South Yorkshire link > >
Doncaster Museum & Art Gallery
  Doncaster HotHouse
Fringe Festival
1 Day Exhibition
Mansion House, Doncaster
  Doncaster HotHouse
Visual Arts
Fringe Festival
Members Exhibition link > >

Frenchgate Centre, Doncaster
2006 Open Art
Doncaster Museum & Art Gallery
  The Great Art Christmas Fair
Alexandra Palace, London
Doncaster Art Market link > >
The Corn Exchange, Doncaster
  South Yorkshire Open Exhibition
Cooper Gallery, Barnsley
  Open Up Sheffield & South Yorkshire 
Doncaster
  HotHouse Visual Arts Fringe Festival link > >
The Dome, Doncaster
  DVAC: The Town link > >
The Blue Building, Doncaster
2004 Selected Paintings & Drawings
Swinton Lock, Rotherham
  Digital Art
The Dome, Doncaster
2001 Selected Paintings
Waterstone's, York
  'Cypher' - An Exhibition of Digital Art
Borders, York
2000 Selected Paintings
Room 58 Floating Gallery, Goole
  Microscopic Landscape
City Screen, York
  Selected Paintings
Waterstone's, York
  Selected Paintings
The Slug & Lettuce, Harrogate
1997 Student Exhibition
Doncaster Museum & Art Gallery
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Current MA Art Psychotherapy Practice
Northern Programme for Art Psychotherapy, Sheffield
2001-04 Post Graduate Certificate in Education
(PCET)

University of Huddersfield
1997
2000
BA (Hons) Art & Design - (Fine Art/Painting Specialism)
York St John College, York
  1995-97 B.T.E.C. N.D. Graphic Design (Illustration)
Doncaster College
  1976-77 Foundation Art & Design
Doncaster College
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