Short Articles
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Hearts Online: looking back at 2020 online
2020 saw the virtual world begin to take on equal importance, if not more, with the real world, for most of us, stuck in lockdown for months. We went online for work, for family, for education and for socialising. For many unaccustomed to living in a virtual world, it was Read more
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The Lived Experience of a Pandemic
The Lived Experience of a Pandemic was the follow-up online community gathering for the ASinA building on the success of our first event. Here is some of the feedback we received: “A real warming this cold digital world was experienced” “Thank you for the Easter talk, it supplied nourishment in Read more
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Hearts Online
Recently, I found myself hosting online gatherings for an Australia-wide community I belong to – on and off. I say “found myself” because it’s not something I planned as future career direction, and yet, here I am, quite happily developing a host persona. This takes some work, unless you are Read more
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Where do new ideas come from? And how do they emerge?
I found I was working in another space. The mind wasn’t judging, but rather, wondering. Since completing my doctorate in 2018, I have been developing a practice-based program promoting a new approach to creativity and cognition. Rather than writing academic papers, I’ve been giving lectures and workshops at colleges, schools Read more
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Art as Research
“I never made a painting as a work of art, it’s all research” (Pablo Picasso) Here is a short, very academic reflection upon art as a research process. It’s from my doctoral thesis, with a few adaptions. Making art is not so much a form of self-expression as a process Read more
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Painting for the Second Half of Life
A picture of yourself as a living piece of artwork, as a path to self-knowledge and transformation. In 2016 and 2017 I ran a series of consecutive weekend workshops exploring biography using therapeutic painting with a medical basis. These workshops were specifically aimed at people in the second half of Read more
Painted Space 