Drawing in Health and Wellbeing

A compelling collection that collages practical experiences and scholarship to give a picture of the transformational possibilities of drawing practices. * Giskin Day, Principal Teaching Fellow, Imperial College London, UK *This collection opens drawing out into the world as a strategy for engagement and social repair while also taking drawing practices in to the self as modes of meditative self-care. It will be a source of inspiration both for health care workers, and carers of all kinds, and for researchers interested in learning more about ethnographic or autoethnographic practices * Susan Squier, Brill Professor Emeritus of English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Penn State University, USA *

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 completed her PhD on British Second World War poetry in 2005.