Maps, metaphor and memory : a personal investigation through image manipulation and textile embellishment

This exegesis supports the artist-researcher's Creative Arts Project, which explores how personal memories and reflection on family history and narratives can be used as resources for image making. The exegesis underscores the essentialness of Efland' s (1990) Expressive Psychoanalytic model as a conceptual framework in visual arts education,as well as reviewing associated literature about memory and semiotics, and the role of Images in reconstructing self-realization, identity and social history. The artist-researcher also links Efland's model to Gardner's (1996) Inter and Intra Personal Intelligences. The artist-researcher introduces the work of influential artists in Australia, Canadian , and other overseas artists who also work in the field of textile design with personal and family history themes. However, specifically the exegesis, positions the artist-researcher's Creative Arts Project and major exhibition.

Grantor dc:publisher

Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia

Year dc:date

2006

Author dc:creator

• Spanier, Gail

• Art therapy for older people
• Textile crafts
• Genealogy
• Psychological aspects.
• Art Education

Repository record dc:identifier

https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/350

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:ro.ecu.edu.au:theses-1350