lived experience

As patients and friends, we have found solace and connection through art in our most difficult times.

our story


Through our own battles with cancer, chronic disease and mental illness, we came together as close friends with a passion to elevate creativity as a pillar of health. 

We launched A Space Between from a place of lived experience, setting out to build programmes that would inspire a simple creative pause within hospital settings and into the community. Our vision was to break down generational barriers, patient-carer boundaries and social confines through a collective art space open to all.

We believe that art-making in its simplest, most child-like form is a powerful connector - connecting to oneself; connecting to others.

A Space Between is about channelling anguish, escaping boredom, blocking out noise just for that one moment where art can take over and do its thing. 

We set about inspiring a multitude of creative pauses - moments as though suspended in time amidst life’s rushes; spaces between.

ASB founders - Fardokht, Emily & Tianna

the founders


Emily Halban BEM

Co-Founder

Tianna Moquette Dagher BEM

1979 - 2025

Co-Founder

Fardokht Sharifi-Yazdi

Co-Founder

meet the team


Emily Halban BEM

Director

Lucy Grainge

Workshop Facilitator

Sandrine Dimitraidis

Lead Designer

Rose Tothill

Workshop Facilitator

our trustees


​Nelly Munthe 

Therapeutic Arts Facilitator

Atalanti Moquette

Founder, Giving Women

Roxana Sursock Karam

Art Consultant & Broker

our advisory board


Dr Golnar Aref-Adib

Academic Psychiatrist & Consultant

​Nelly Munthe 

Therapeutic Arts Facilitator

Hollie Wilmot 

Product Manager

Roxana Sursock Karam

Art Consultant & Broker

Eva-Maria Dimitriadis

CEO & Managing Partner, The Conduit Connect

Laila Charlton-Meyrick

Executive Director, Coutts & Partner at Tribe Impact Capital LLP

Fleur Appleby-Deen

Functional Wellness Coach

our ambassadors


Lucy Kent

Artist & Founder of the Art for Charity Collective

Christopher Kane

Fashion Designer & Founder of fashion house Christopher Kane

Laura Bradford

Poet & Teacher

“The time has come to recognise the powerful contribution the arts can make to our health and wellbeing.”

— Lord Howarth of Newport, co-chair of the APPG on arts, health and wellbeing