Making meaning meaningful

An intersection between the creative process and psychoanalytic experience

  • Julie Firth
DOI: https://doi.org/10.9791/ajpanz.2004.07

Abstract

This paper is based upon both my psychotherapeutic experience and my work as a photography and video artist. My art work has been internationally recognized for its autobiographical content and surrealist aesthetic, acclaimed for its evocative dream-like atmosphere, which employs a highly-charged symbolic language. It is my belief that it is only through accessing the "underbelly" in my own psychotherapy experience that I've been able to bring this to bear in my art-making process and product.

Author Biography

Julie Firth

As recorded in 2004.

Julie Firth, an American who has lived in New Zealand for the past 15 years, has been a practicing artist for over 25 years. She works in both photography and video. Her works are in major museum and corporate collections internationally and she exhibits regularly both in New Zealand and overseas. Firth is Head of Department of Photography, Film and Video at Whitecliffe College of Arts & Design in Auckland, New Zealand. She is also past Director of the College's Master of Fine Arts degree.

Published
2004-08-30
How to Cite
Firth, J. (2004). Making meaning meaningful: An intersection between the creative process and psychoanalytic experience. Ata: Journal of Psychotherapy Aotearoa New Zealand, 10(1), 58-76. https://doi.org/10.9791/ajpanz.2004.07
Issue
Vol. 10 No. 1 (2004): Forum: The Journal of the New Zealand Association of Psychotherapists (Inc.)
Section
Articles