Lucinda Jarrett is the Artistic Director of Rosetta Life. She founded the organisation in 1997 in order to challenge our contemporary representation of illness and to enable people who are facing death to participate more fully in cultural life. She is a published writer and poet, has worked with independent dancers and is a founder member of the Knowing Body Network, a network of movement practitioners working in health care. She also leads Dream a Difference, a poetry and songmaking project building awareness of social justice and peace across ten countries where children are living with conflict, and Place4Hope, a global community of youth leaders from 20 countries across the globe, using the digital and immersive arts to advocate for climate change.

Lucinda has twenty years’ experience of delivering award winning, ambitious and high quality arts projects in health care delivered co-designed and co-produced with service users. She has produced patient engagement campaigns delivered through complex partnerships brokered between arts and health; she is recognised as a leader in arts in health innovation. She pioneered life story work in end of life care, developed the first online platform for palliative care service users, and developed songmaking platforms for adults and children using hospice services. She also leads performance projects across our national museums to engage the vulnerable and frail with the collections.

She is a Clore Cultural Leadership Fellow, a Churchill Fellow and a Fellow of the School for Social Entrepreneurs. She is an honorary senior researcher at UCL and has published widely on creative engagement with health care, shared her practice abroad and has led projects in America, Brazil, South Africa and Thailand.