Angela Hodgson-Teall
Current PhD
Drawing on the Nature of Empathy
Angela Hodgson-Teall has worked as an artist in the field of arts and science for health, negotiating the expanding territory of medical humanities, since the 1990s. Through diverse drawing practices, performance and empathic interactions she entices others to produce artworks with her.
Her PhD project Drawing on the Nature of Empathy focused on the benefits (and complications) of drawing within a multiethnic series of hospital communities in South East London, during a period of immense socio-political turmoil and reorganisation. Drawing was used to aid investigations, sustain the craft skills of medicine and explore emotions and thoughts, in empathic therapeutic interventions. These interventions allowed staff to slow down, play, analyse and reflect, creating a shifting third space within the hospitals’ gallery, educational centres and out-reach wards. The practices of drawing and empathy were reviewed at the heart of the communities’ social vitality.
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Professor Sonia Boyce
TrAIN Member
In the broadest sense, my research interests lie in art as a social practice and the critical and contextual debates that arise from this burgeoning field. Since the 1990s my own art practice has relied on working with other people in collaborative and participatory situations, often demanding of those collaborators spontaneity and unrehearsed performative actions.
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