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