Art practice in art therapy is given shape by its simultaneous involvement of artist, viewer and curator and its boundaries of time, space and materials. The drama takes place within contexts such as hospitals, schools, prisons and hospices; the players are positioned in relationships of power and unconscious and conscious processes can be explored. Tutors on the MA Art Psychotherapy, Goldsmiths, University of London, have used aspects of an art therapy practice to explore their individual and collective understanding of the ‘unconscious’. This exhibition, created in response to the centenary of Freud’s essays on the unconscious, is part of an on-going research project, which uses art-making and writing to explore the theme. Freud's essays were in part written as a rejoinder to scepticism of the concept; our research explores its contested relevance to contemporary art therapy practice.

Christopher Brown, Kristen Catchpole, Annamaria Cavaliero, Diana Kagiafa, Jon Martyn, Lesley Morris, Lisa Rimmer, Susan Rudnik, Sally Skaife, Robin Tipple, Diana Velada, Jill Westwood.

https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/16609