Meet the Team
Our Current Team
Marie Clancy
Dr Marie Clancy is a children's nurse, poet and artist. She works clinically on a local neonatal unit and for a charity helping children and young people to cope with grief. Marie has been working in nurse academia since 2010 and completed her PhD which explored children's palliative care for refugee and asylum seeking families in 2023. She is passionate about integrating arts-based methods into her teaching and research. Marie commenced this work using poetry to help students reflect on their placements in neonatal intensive care at the University of Wolverhampton and in 2021 she created the Art and History of Nursing module for the Academy of Nursing at the University of Exeter. This module, the first of its kind in the UK explores art, literature, poetry and other creative mediums to help students develop their understanding of patient and carer perspectives and explore experiential themes surrounding challenging topics such as death, pain, women's health and spirituality. More information about the module and summative art exhibitions can be found here: https://www.artsandcultureexeter.co.uk/news/the-art-and-history-of-nursing
Marie continues to work in an honorary capacity for the University of Exeter as a senior lecturer and within the Creative Toolkits team, delivering bespoke retreats, workshops and exploring creative research methods and pedagogy. Marie also co-leads the Art of Nursing project alongside the Royal College of Nursing and the Foundation of Nursing Studies - https://www.artofnursing.co.uk/
Dr Caitlin Kight is an educator with an interest in self-study, creativity, transdisciplinarity, and ethics. She is a published poet, author, and photographer. Originally an ecologist, Caitlin maintains an interest in science communication; she is a Dakshin Foundation fellow and editor/writer for Current Conservation and CC Kids. Her daily webcomic, Doodlewax, is posted on Twitter and Instagram at @specialagentCK. 
Caitlin Kight
Rich Kyle is a Scottish writer, artist and performer living in Cornwall. He has a passion for creating care environments that enable people to explore their creativity.
Rich has worked with student nurses over several years to co-create plays exploring themes of compassion, mental health, learning disability, dementia and disparities in
care, tapping into his acute sense of social and health justice. After a 20-year career as an academic he is now a Support Worker at a residential setting for adults living
with learning disabilities.
Richard Kyle
Jess Stein is an educator at Hospiscare, Exeter and has been a specialist palliative care nurse for over a decade. She has developed several initiatives to support holistic wellbeing in staff, patients and carers and is currently working on a programme of creative clinical supervision for Hospiscare staff.
Alongside nursing, Jess leads mindfulness and nature connection retreats at Sharpham Trust where she combines her work as a group facilitator, somatic yoga teacher and qualified Environmental Arts Therapy Practitioner. She is particularly interested in creating spaces which bring us into closer connection with ourselves, each other and the natural world.
Jess Stein
Anthony Wilson is a poet, lecturer and writing tutor. He works in teacher and medical education at the University of Exeter. He has published six collections of poetry, the most recent of which is The Wind and the Rain (Blue Diode Publishing, 2023). He has held numerous writing residencies, including The Poetry Society, The Times Educational Supplement, The Poetry Trust and Tate Britain, and has tutored at Arvon and the Poetry School. His current research project is Young Poets’ Stories, funded by the Foyle Foundation. His blog is archived by the British Library.
Anthony Wilson
Zara is a summer intern for The Creative Toolkit. She is currently studying the dual registration programme in Adult and Mental Health Nursing at the University of Exeter.
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Her interests lie in holistic care and the intersections between physical and mental health. During her internship, Zara is supporting ongoing projects that explore innovative approaches to nursing education. She also contributed to the re-design of The Creative Toolkit website, applying her creativity and technical skills to enhance how the project is presented. Zara is passionate about compassionate practice, mental health advocacy, and creating inclusive healthcare environments.
Zara Sattar
Past Contributers
Thank you to our past team members for their invaluable contributions.
Kirsty is a newly qualified nurse who graduated from the University of Exeter's Academy of Nursing. She contributed a painting about palliative care to the 2023 'Art and History of Nursing' exhibition associated with a Nursing module of the same name; in 2024, she returned to the module as an educator supporting the next cohort of students. She has facilitated Creative Toolkit workshops with Hospiscare staff and patients, and is leading on the collection and analysis of qualitative data exploring the impact of creativity on nurses' education and professional activities.
Kirsty Cracknell
With twenty years in museum and arts administration, Naome Glanville is Arts and Culture Co-ordinator at the University of Exeter. She is responsible for the care and research of the University’s fine art collection and organises art exhibitions, events and activities. She is involved with project management of arts projects and provides guidance to academic and professional staff and students in planning and curating visual displays and exhibitions.
Naome Glanville
Content Contributers
Thank you to the individuals who have generously shared their expertise by creating the resources featured on this site.
Amber Pritchard
Amber is a textiles artist and registered nurse who studied at the University of Exeter. Combining her clinical experience with her creative practice, she developed the 'Embroidering a Heart' tool - a reflective resource that uses embroidery to explore emotional resilience and the lived experience of nursing. Amber’s contribution brings an artistic and deeply personal dimension to the conversation around self-care and compassion in healthcare.
Catherine Cartwright
Dr. Catherine Cartwright is a multi-disciplinary artist, working primarily with printmaking, drawing and film, often exploring socio-political issues.​ Catherine’s PhD funded by the AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council) explored how artists can work safely with individuals and communities affected by trauma with a focus on collage. More information on her work is available on her website: https://catherinecartwright.co.uk/
Anne-Marie Culhane
From 1994, Anne-Marie has been initiating, catalysing, designing creative and eco-arts projects, events and performances and working as an artist, activist and educator. This includes residencies, commissions, eco-activism, education and artist-led projects work across and between disciplines. Her work takes place mostly in outdoor spaces: orchards, community centres, parks, farms, the street, by or on rivers and sometimes in galleries and museums and is framed within the context of a global climate and ecological emergency. More information on her work is available on her website: https://amculhane.co.uk/
Grace Elizabeth Harper
Grace Elizabeth Harper is an illustrator based in Devon, UK specialising in creating fun and informative sketchnotes and hand-drawn digital infographics​. With her strong skills and experience in illustration, communications and marketing, Grace first discovered her passion for sketchnoting in 2018 and has since travelled across the country to create entirely individual pieces for a range of clients. More information on her work is available on her website: https://www.graceelizabeth.co.uk/