Art Therapy in Australia

Andrea Gilroy, Emeritus Reader, spent thirty five years as an art therapy educator, researcher and, latterly, senior manager at Goldsmiths, University of London. She has published widely. Between 1994 and 2007 she was occasionally an educator and researcher at the University of Western Sydney.Sheridan Linnell is Associate Professor of Art Therapy at Western Sydney University, Australia. She takes a collaborative, arts-based and feminist new materialist approach to art therapy as a practice of social justice, within the context of postcolonial Australia.Tarquam McKenna is a Professor at Deakin University in Melbourne. He is keenly interested in arts research methods and their applicability to shared global Indigenous knowing. He is an honorary life member of ANZATA.Jill Westwood, Ph.D. (2010), Western Sydney University, from 1995-2007 was Course Coordinator of the MA Art Therapy and GD Expressive Therapies at that university. She is now Programme Convenor of the MA Art Psychotherapy, Goldsmiths, University of London.

• AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsPrologue by Bronwyn DaviesAn Introduction of Sorts or All Sorts of IntroductionsAndrea Gilroy, Sheridan Linnell, Tarquam McKenna and Jill Westwood1 Taking a Turn: An Image-Led Dialogue between Creative Arts Educators and Practitioners in Melbourne, AustraliaJan Allen, Jean Rumbold, Victoria Schnaedelbach, Amanda Woodford and Lilian Tann2 Towards Indigenous Australian KnowingCarmen Lawson, Davina Woods and Tarquam McKenna3 Desire and the Desert: Moving between Inner and Outer LandscapesJosephine Pretorius4 Psyche Nullius: Reflections on Art, Psychotherapy and Psychiatry Down UnderJohn Henzell5 Crossing Bridges, Sowing Seeds: Becoming an Australian Art TherapistClaire Edwards6 Hybrid Creatures: Art Therapy Education in AustraliaJill Westwood7 Abject Creatures: Exploring the Relationship between Art Psychotherapy and Contemporary ArtSuzanne Perry8 The Work of Art Therapy: An Immersive Visual AnalysisJody Thomson9 Where Knowing and Not Knowing Touch: Contemporary Art as a Mode of Research, Subjective Transformation and Social EngagementSheridan Linnell, Suzanne Perry, Josephine Pretorius and Jill Westwood10 From Broken Circles to Different Identities: An Exploration of Identity for Children in Out-of-Home CareMichelle Moss11 Talking You Talking Me Talking Aborigine: A Paper for the International Forum on Education in Correctional Systems in Australia, 'Learning for New Life – Not Just Doing Time'Pam Johnston12 Inter-mission: An Enactment of How Art Psychotherapy and Narrative Therapy Shaped Teamwork and Therapeutic Practice in a Community-based Counselling Service for Young People in Western SydneySheridan Linnell13 A Conversational Model of Art TherapyNicolette Eisdell14 Material Sensibility: A Sense of Place in Art Therapy Practice and TheoryPatricia FennerEpilogue: A Letter to Art Therapists of the FutureLynn KapitanAbout the ContributorsIndex