Art Therapy in Australia Taking a Postcolonial, Aesthetic Turn

Andrea Gilroy, Emeritus Reader, spent thirty five years as an art therapy educator, researcher and, latterly, senior manager at Goldsmiths, University of London. She has published widely. Between 1994 and 2007 she was occasionally an educator and researcher at the University of Western Sydney.
Sheridan Linnell is Associate Professor of Art Therapy at Western Sydney University, Australia. She takes a collaborative, arts-based and feminist new materialist approach to art therapy as a practice of social justice, within the context of postcolonial Australia.
Tarquam McKenna is a Professor at Deakin University in Melbourne. He is keenly interested in arts research methods and their applicability to shared global Indigenous knowing. He is an honorary life member of ANZATA.
Jill Westwood, Ph.D. (2010), Western Sydney University, from 1995-2007 was Course Coordinator of the MA Art Therapy and GD Expressive Therapies at that university. She is now Programme Convenor of the MA Art Psychotherapy, Goldsmiths, University of London.