Art as thinking: MA Art Psychotherapy staff artmaking group in the context of the neoliberal university

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MAAP Team. 2024. Art as thinking: MA Art Psychotherapy staff artmaking group in the context of the neoliberal university. ATOL: Art Therapy Online, 14(1), ISSN 2044-7221 [Article]

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In this piece we present a visual ‘snapshot’ of artworks made in a staff art making group for tutors on the Art Psychotherapy training at Goldsmiths University, London, as we started the academic year 2023-24. In the group, which happens twice termly, the teaching team gather in the studio to talk, make artworks, and reflect on their meanings for the staff group in the dynamic context of the training. Our art making as a team has come to signify a place for critical thinking, connecting, and creating together in a way that has become an essential part of our cohesion as a team. We decided to show this aspect of our practice to foreground the role of art to think about personal, political, social and institutional dynamics.

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Art, visual research, visual process, art therapy, staff team, material process, art research

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