This thesis examined the relationship between children’s visual art and hospital contexts. It specifically focused on children’s art in the Tile Project within the Mater Children’s Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. This ethnographic study consisted of interviews with the creators of the Tile Project as well as interviews and a survey with parents, staff, and children within the Mater Children’s Hospital. The interviews were informed by a review of literature in the areas of art in health settings. The study made observations of the community interacting with the tiles and collected images of the tiles used in the hospital and employed the framework of Bourdieu’s (1993) fields of cultural production and Abbs’s (1987) aesthetic field and dimensions, as well as the aesthetic dimensions of Beardsley (1982), Eisner (1985), and Csikszentmihalyi (1990). The study investigated the aesthetic characteristics of the tiles and their health outcomes in relation to the hospital community. This study is significant because the Mater Children’s Hospital Tile Project was a project that reflected art in healthcare settings involving Community Arts, art in design, and art in public buildings. The research identified the unique nature of the Tile Project which saw the hospital as a children’s space with artworks for children by children. The study reflected on the value of the tiles in having a healing and distracting quality for parents and children alike and that engagement with the tiles through touch, imagination, and playful games improved the atmosphere of the hospital.

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Orientador: Alfredo Pereira Júnior / Banca: Eloisa Quadros Fagali / Banca: Tânia Ruiz / Resumo: O presente estudo, com abordagem qualitativa, insere-se no contexto das investigações científicas sobre a Arteterapia e suas aplicações no cenário da Saúde Mental, através de revisão histórico-bibliográfica e entrevista com profissional da área de arte-reabilitação, utilizando a técnica da história oral, com vistas a aprofundar o conhecimento sobre Arteterapia e seu campo de atuação. Foi possível constatar que, dentro de uma abordagem sistêmica, existem várias possibilidades de atuação da Arteterapia na prevenção, recuperação e tratamento da Saúde Mental, contribuindo para uma melhoria na qualidade de vida. / Abstract: This is a scientific qualitative study approaching Art-Therapy theories and practices, focusing on possible applications in the field of Mental Health assistance. It contains two parts, the first one a Review of the history and literature on the subject, and the second one is an interview with one professional who has developed an extensive practice of Art-Therapy in Brazil. The interview is interpreted by means of an Analysis of Discourse using the techniques of Oral History. The objective of the study is to gather knowledge about Art-Therapy and its applications in the prevention, recovery and therapy in Mental Health, in a systemic approach framework. / Mestre

I wished to present a body of work that visually represented my own meditative process of managing stress and anxiety. Towards the end of studying for my undergraduate, I began preparing for my Final Exhibition Show, and with these preparations, my life, as well as my work, changed drastically. Within the past two years, my drawings began to take on a meditative therapeutic process. It was this development that then helped manage my growing stress levels and well as the symptoms that stemmed from high levels of anxiety and bloomed from losing control in my day to day life. It was then conceived, through this carefully crafted systematic means of creation, the notion that my mind could relax and take time to resolve the matters that plagued it, while at the same time, construct something artistically productive. While drawing, I achieved a juxtaposition of varying means of visually representing the idea of control and order within my work as well as within my mind and body. It was this, the creation of these drawings, that hence became my meditative escape in managing my stress and anxieties as well as my obsessive compulsive tendencies, where; without structure, had the potential to turn self-hindering and painful.

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