Creative Practice as Research: Discourse on Methodology

In recent years artistic practice has developed into a major focus of research activity, both as process and product, and discourse in various disciplines have made a strong case for its validity as a method of studying art and the practice of art. This paper presents a methodological approach to creative practice as research, and includes an overview of the different types of practice-related research currently undertaken across a variety of disciplines; discussion of the purposes and applications of creative practice research; and the Practitioner Model of Creative Cognition sample methodology I developed through my own creative practice research. The online version of this paper is a living discussion of practice-based methodologies in creative practice research, included as part of the special issue The Disrupted Journal of Media Practice, and invites reader contributions and discussion for future revisions

Art as Research : Opportunities and Challenges

"Art as Research addresses how artistic enquiry has always been a preferred method of investigating the most complex human problems. The book combines two special issues from the Journal of Applied Arts & Health on art-based research which has emerged from applied arts disciplines and is now being used in all situations where the arts can further research. Authors from the arts in therapy are joined by colleagues in philosophy, history, education, social relations, business and organizational studies." - p. [4] of cover