Tinh Bee Stpwaeceen MSaatrr tactAui enpd Anirenatrnrtgca tP tslii ns cpp yeaarc er wrhtsa ohoentifngch tteheh t reoihas fep iyr PT6OThhprpiuumvearrn-sst9 ddetpo aaVmyy ti(cid:3) eh118(cid:94)we :JJp uuunnbeeli c–: HrbLGeeeaoec llilldnt auBs tnrmuhedie li Tdts hIhieansemng,a N iGt(ntreuheawl)rel a wCfinilrlmdol s s, Designed by Leaf Design Group MA Art Psychotherapy media, installations, film (cid:32)(cid:61)(cid:60)(cid:49)(cid:46)(cid:71)(cid:3)22 June London SE14 6AD exhibition 2015 and performance work. 10am-4.30pm Venue: Whitehead Foyer/ Ian Gulland Lecture Theatre (IGLT) and 3rd Floor, Professor Stuart Aisling Fegan Subheadings of Survival Collection Digital media printed on acetate This collection of images captures my dual experience of being a trainee art psychotherapist and my own lived experiences of mental illness. Over three years on the MA Art Psychotherapy course, using my face as the subject, I have used digital media to explore what it has felt like for me to have my sanity placed under threat. The most recent image was inspired by my clinical placement where I worked with male patients in a medium secure forensic setting. My initial vision was one of being held underneath water; submerged underneath fear. Like the alarms and keys worn in a forensic setting, the editing of this image provided me with a sense of control and security. In this collection I have consciously been able to express some of the darker emotions related to human existence, in contrast to my forensic patients whom were unable to acknowledge the pain they had inflicted on others, or the fear and anger they themselves were experiencing. [email protected] Alice Davies Amulet Ceramic and Silk The reproduction of an object or image is what gives it symbol status; it adds value and currency. In a world of constructed language and symbols, where we are taught meaning in more solid terms, it can be easy to neglect our own personal associations with images and words. Exploring ideas around defense mechanisms, transitional objects, and the lengths we go to protect ourselves, from ourselves, I looked at different belief systems, witchcraft, the occult and religious rituals. This is a collection of personal amulets and talismans. [email protected] ! ! Alisa Margolies Fragments of Time ceramic There is a space between the internal and external world and my work attempts to explore the juxtaposition of these realities. The more utilitarian nature of my ceramic tableware clashes with the process art presented here. It reflects the duality of my time training as an Art Therapist: the conscious self-discipline and the subconscious self-exploration. [email protected] Amy Wilesmith Re-* *word-forming element meaning "back to the original place; again, anew, once more," also with a sense of "undoing." Digital film of performance, and installation On a still new-Summer evening, at low tide, I visited Mersea Beach, a place of my childhood. There, I climbed onto the ruins of an eroded defense tower, and lit a fire. Over the next hour I burned each of the diaries I had written during my childhood and adolescent years, in chronological order: ten volumes which contained powerful and painful memories kept alive for two decades within their pages. The long-felt impulse to do this conflicted with a deep fear that if I destroyed these sad, damaged past versions of my self there would be nothing of me left. When it was done, I collected the ash and returned home, lighter, and yet somehow more. The performance and resulting pieces are an attempt to capture my experience of the Art Psychotherapy course as a transformative process, and the personal changes it has engendered. This year, I have allowed myself to gently surrender to a more intuitive creative process, and to court positive risk and ‘not-knowing’. Doing this has allowed a re-framing of my past experiences, and a greater honouring of the feelings and impulses of my present self. The burning was a liberation from many things: the inadequacy of language to convey embodied experience, the detached intellectualisation of feelings, the socio-cultural insistence on the existence of objective truth, and the power of past traumas. ! Contact details: [email protected] Anna Lichtensteiger Spontoon Zenith Mesa Mixed Media Installation [email protected] Ayaka Hirayama For Them [email protected] ! !!!!! ! Becky Greenwood Twisted, stretched and pulled Acrylic on cloth [email protected] Becky Piggott Blurred Boundaries Clay and acrylic paint on paper and card When working therapeutically with someone it can be hard to know where you end and the other person begins. Aspects of your client become taken in, as if part of you and something of that experience will stay with you. I created this piece to reflect my thoughts around boundaries, both personal and therapeutic. Sometimes they can be clear and easy to identify, other times boundaries can feel fluid or a little blurred. [email protected] !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !