Against a Blank Wall: Art and Psychotherapy
Guest Speaker: Jacinta Frawley

Date: Saturday, 14th April
Time: 6:30pm for 7:00pm
Venue: Blavatsky Lodge, Level 2, 484 Kent St, Sydney NSW


What are the therapeutic aspects of creating art? To see and be seen
(D.W.Winnicott), to
approach God (Ursula LeGuin), to reveal the universe within (C.G. Jung)? And as
every
creative act requires an initial act of destruction do we create in order to
destroy? With
these questions in mind we will look at three sets of paintings, The Isenheim
Altarpiece,
paintings from a psychotherapy process, and works by Stravroula Feleggakis from
the
recent Australian Outsiders exhibition.

"At any time of my life when I came up against a blank wall, I painted a picture
or hewed a
stone. Each such experience proved to be a rite d'entrŽe for the ideas and works
that
followed hard upon it.", Memories, Dreams and Reflections, C.G.Jung.

Biography:

Jacinta Frawley is a Jungian Analyst trained in Zurich Switzerland and is in
private practice
in Sutherland. A version of this talk was first presented as part of the
Australian Outsiders
exhibition at Hazelhurst Gallery, Gymea. The exhibition is at the Halle St.
Pierre, Paris until
11th March 2007 and can be viewed at presse-hallesaintpierre.org.

Venue: Blavatsky Lodge, Level 2, 484 Kent St, Sydney NSW

Cost: Member: $5; Non-member: $20; Non-member conc: $15

Supper: There is a complimentary supper at the end of the talk where you can
meet the
guest speaker and other people with similar interests.