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I have enjoyed the process of blogging and exploring different research methods as a form of learning over the past few months. I have learnt to filter information faster when reading articles and books. I have had the chance to combine theory and experiential learning. I have looked at articles, books, exhibitions, produced art, startedContinue reading “Method/Methodology – Reflections On My Blog”

I have been doing Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) alongside my study as well as before the course started. This was for an anxiety disorder I have. I found it insightful to experience a goal orientated therapy which is quite different to psychodynamics. It has been beneficial learning about the different techniques such as the exposureContinue reading “Cognitive Behavioural Therapy”

“The working process is one of discovery and it is worth remembering that the word discovery implies an uncovering of that which is hidden.” When I was growing up I studied Bridget Riley at school and I did not realise to what extent she had influenced my work until I went to her exhibition yesterday,Continue reading “Bridget Riley – Ways of Seeing”

I went to the Royal Academy Lates at the end of November. The event included performance art, soundscapes and multi-sensory installations. I also saw the Antony Gormley exhibition again and noticed lots of pieces I had not seen the first time around (figure 7-8). It was the opening night for an exhibition called Ecovisionaires whichContinue reading “RA Lates: Deep Earth and Sketch”

I enjoyed this exhibition at the Tate Modern. It brings together over 40 works of art made between 1990 and today by the Danish-Icelandic artist. I was drawn to the name of it “In Real Life”. I like to explore in “the real world” the actual physical experience more than through the internet and booksContinue reading “Olafur Eliasson – In Real Life”

We were set a task as a group where some of us had to sit in the middle of the room and produce a piece of art while the rest of the class observed us from different perspectives. Some from a scientific perspective, others from a therapy perspective etc. I was in the art makingContinue reading “Art Making Under Group Observation”

We are having a series of workshops using different art materials. The first week we used dry materials including pencil, charcoal and pastels with different sizes and types of paper. It felt good to have a more practical class after lots of theory. We spent five minutes on each drawing and went around the roomContinue reading “Embodied Materials”

I have started seeing an art therapist a ten minute walk from where I live just off Green Lanes and up a steep hill. Her house has a calmness about it, quite an eclectic feel, wooden floors and doors and the art work space is on a long white table with good natural light. SheContinue reading “Art Therapy Sessions”

Gormley asks the question, “what can art do for us?” His show puts us the viewer as the subject. “The viewer becomes the viewed.” I went to Antony Gormley’s exhibition a few weeks into the course which gave me some mental head space and clarity when everything was feeling chaotic. I often go to exhibitionsContinue reading “Antony Gormley “What Can Art do for us?””

The first six weeks has been a big change for me as I have been out of study for a long time. This has been both exciting and overwhelming at times. I started my placement in a primary school from the second week where as most others had not started theirs which I found quiteContinue reading “School Placement – The Importance of Play”