Drawing in Health and Wellbeing

Curie Scott is an independent education consultant specializing in arts and health, based in the UK. After working as a medical doctor, she transitioned into Higher Education. Previously, she worked at Arts University Bournemouth, UK and Canterbury Christ Church University, UK. She is an award-winning educator for creative learning practices and holds a PhD in thinking through drawing. She is also the author of Drawing: Arts for Health (2021). Philippa Lyon leads drawing, health and wellbeing research at the University of Brighton, UK, where she teaches on the MA Craft and MA Textiles and supervises PhD students. She has publications on the history of art education, design education approaches, and on applications of drawing within educational, health and wellbeing contexts. She has published work in The Sage Handbook of Visual Research Methods (2019) and journals such as the International Journal of Art and Design Education and Visual Methodologies. She also completed her PhD on British Second World War poetry in 2005.

List of figures
About the Editors
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction, Philippa Lyon (University of Brighton, UK)

Part One: Critical Drawing Summaries and Evaluations
1. Drawing to Understand Health and Illness Perceptions with Children and Adults, Curie Scott (Independent Education Consultant, UK)
2. What Evidence is there that Drawing Helps Healing? Angela Brew (Thinking through Drawing, UK)
3. Collaborative Drawing as a Strategy: The Mental Health and Wellbeing of Children and Young People with Autism Spectrum Condition and Demand Avoidance, Caehryn Tinker (Aspens Charities and the University of Brighton, UK)

Part Two: Drawing for Personal Wellbeing and Mindfulness
4. Stitch-drawing as Autoethnographic Practice for Health and Wellbeing: A Personal Case Study, Vanessa Marr (University of Brighton, UK)
5. Mind Like Water: Drawing the Still Point, Duncan Bullen (University of Brighton, UK).

Part Three: One to One Drawing Approaches
6. Drawing for Insight: ‘Sometimes You Don't Realise What You Feel with Words’, Melissa Mei Yin Cheung, Bandana Saini and Lorraine Smith (University of Sydney, Australia)
7. Marking Space: A Case Study Examining Drawing Activities Used to Map the World of Mary, Jenny Wright (independent Artist Researcher, UK)

Part Four: Group Drawing Approaches
8. The Use of Touch and Drawing for Improved Observation and 3D Spatial Awareness in Anatomy Education, Leonard Shapiro (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
9. To be ‘Me’, as a Person, Through Drawing, Joanna Stevens (Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, UK), Jane Fox (University of Brighton, UK), and Philippa Lyon (University of Brighton, UK)
10. Drawing Life, Judy Parkinson (The Drawing Life Charitable Organisation, UK)
11. Fabrika: Drawing Across Cultures, Edina Husanovic (University of Brighton, UK).

Conclusion, Philippa Lyon (University of Brighton, UK) and Curie Scott (Independent Education Consultant, UK)

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Index