Artmaking, Identity, Representations of Knowledge and Wellbeing

Kath Grushka

Early career researcher Kath Grushka has combined her background in visual arts with her academic qualification in education to interrogate the contribution of visual art education to the intuitive, critical and creative aspects of how individuals construct meaning for themselves. Dr Grushka is researching the connections between health and well being and creativity and the embodied act of artmaking. Using the narratives of artmaking, her project is exploring the links between the unique epistemology of the visual as a philosophy of action or agency and knowledge by analysing how self image, technology, representation and narrative influence the construction of the contemporary subject.