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Category Drawing, health and wellbeing

Drawing can be used to learn, investigate, communicate, express and relieve suffering. It is used in a range of health and wellbeing contexts including the care of children with autism and people living with dementia, as a therapeutic activity in mental health settings, and as a form of mindfulness or meditation. Drawing is used as a method of communication between health professional and patient, helping to convey complex diagnostic information or illness experiences.

Alex Fitch reports on designing games packaging and raising money for LGBTQI+ groups in the Ukraine

A hobby I have outside of my research and teaching at the University is collecting old video games. Specifically, and this is something I started again during lockdown after a number of years, games for a pretty obscure games console… Continue Reading →

Report | Graphic Brighton, 27-28 May 2022

Co-organiser, Barbara Chamberlin, reports on the many successes of Graphic Brighton 2022 Graphic Brighton is a comics symposium that has run annually (aside from the pandemic) since 2014 and brings together comics creators, publishers, academics, students and the general public,… Continue Reading →

Work in Progress | Drawing Migrations

Visiting Research Fellow, Edina Husanovic, reports on the latest workshop for the Drawing Migrations project which took place on the 19 November 2021.   I’m currently working on the preliminary stages of a research project titled ‘Migration and Drawing’, which… Continue Reading →

Work in Progress | Alex Fitch – Researching the well-being of teen superhero comics

CAW PhD researcher, Alex Fitch, provides an update on his recent research and publications With 50% of my PhD research focussed on comic books – I am investigating “What can Sequential Art tell us about interactions with architecture that other… Continue Reading →

Exhibition | OXYGEN: breathTAKING

Curator Jenni Lewin-Turner of urbanflo talks about the breathTAKING exhibition at Phoenix Art Space, and winning two awards from Brighton Fringe Getting two awards for the OXYGEN: breathTAKING exhibition was truly phenomenal but very richly deserved by all the hugely… Continue Reading →

Desert Island Drawings

What do you value about the practice of drawing? How does it affect or integrate with your wellbeing? Welcome to our Desert Island Drawings, an opportunity for participants to share eight meaningful drawings, organised by Dr Philippa Lyon, the lead… Continue Reading →

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