Art and Music: Therapy and Research

Andrea Gilroy is an experienced art therapy educator and researcher at Goldsmiths, University of London, where she is Reader in Art Psychotherapy and Head of the Department of Professional and Community Education. She originally trained as a painter before qualifying as an art therapist in the mid-1970s, working in acute psychiatry and with people with learning disabilities. Her research interests include the development of art therapy's evidence base, particularly through practice-based and visual research methods, the interface between the theories and practices of visual art/visual culture and art therapy, and the development of art therapy as a practice and a profession around the world. Colin Lee, is a music therapist at Sir Michael Sobell House Hospice, Oxford.