Artist Project Archive
In 2020, the project received a grant from King's College, London to collaborate with artists, designers, and makers of all sorts to explore what methods and perspectives borrowed from the art world (and rare to academic and other professional contexts) might help us to understand about the stakes and experiences of health scepticism.
Though our initial funding ran out somewhere in 2022, in the years since, as opportunities have arisen, we've continued to work with artists to create works that reflect on health, scepticism, misinformation, conspiracy theory and more in unexpected, sometimes playful, always thoughtful ways.
As we rebuild the Healthy Scepticism website and slowly add these projects back, now as an archive. We'll spotlight a project a month, beginning with some of our more recent works and moving backwards in time, to reflect anew especially on the works made during and in some cases inspired by the pandemic moment. Stay tuned for what's to come.
"3/5 Untitled, 1972-2020, acetate, cotton, photo" Geoffrey Rees, Artist-in-Residence, 2020-2021.
1 April 2026
April Fakes Day
We were thrilled to join forces with the brilliant team behind the Between Deception and Dissent project to contribute to April Fakes Day 2026. (If you don't know already about April Fakes Day, yet another of the incredible innovations of Patricia Kingori, you can read more about it, catch up on previous iterations and listen to Patricia talk about it on a Nature podcast this April.) The theme was right up our alley: "Fakes" in Science. Lucas Canino, one of our original artists-in-residence, along with project lead Caitjan Gainty developed a downloadable children's magazine, called Concoctions of Science, modelled after that staple of 1980s American waiting rooms, Highlights for Children. Click on the image to download this playful (there are dot to dots!) if unnerving rumination on how, why, where the "fake" sits in science today.
