Our programs

Detail: Daniel Richards, no title, 1989, crayon and watercolour on paper, 41.5x59 cm

Art therapy

The Dax Centre aims to promote a greater role for art therapy in mainstream health and mental health care. In order to achieve this we host a professional development program for art therapists using the exhibitions and creative works in the Cunningham Dax Collection. We also provide consultancy and support for professionals, mental health services and community organisations on the management and exhibition of works by people who have experienced mental illness or trauma

In the coming years, the Dax Centre will aim to establish a database of evidence for the effectiveness of art therapy in practicing mental health and wellbeing, aiming to encourage further research and serve as a resource for advocates and practitioners of art therapy.

Pictures of You, Pictures of Me - Making sense of things through self-portraiture

Wednesday 11 April 4–7pm 
The Dax Centre, Kenneth Myer Building
Cost: $60 
RSVP Monday 3 April 2012
Bookings: 9035 6258 or email info@daxcentre

Facilitator: Raelean Hall B.A Sc/Psych; MA Arts Therapy; candidate for PhD Arts Therapy; professional artist. 

Art therapists are invited to join Raelean Hall into ‘seeing, hearing and feeling the self and the other in portraiture’. The session will include a discussion of the themes of the exhibition Hide and Seek along with art-making to explore revealing or concealing personal identity. 

Raelean Hall’s PhD thesis, undertaken through MIECAT, explores the role of self-portraiture in Art Therapy. She is a well established and highly accomplished visual artist based on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland.