Dr Patricia Morgan

Dr Patricia Morgan is a Senior Research Associate in the Justice Health Program at the School of Public Health, UNSW Sydney. An interdisciplinary scholar specialising in applied phenomenological and arts-based research, her work examines the relationship between contemplative and creative practice and the phenomenology of experience. Drawing on many years of art practice and national and international experience in community development, she combines creative and contemplative methods with academic research to investigate subjective and pre-conceptual forms of knowing.

Earlier in her career Patricia worked as a fine artist, community artist and community developer in Australia and internationally. Her artistic practice, including video, performance and wearable sculpture, explored costume and somatic experience to critique dominant representations of the female body. Extending this work into research contexts, Patricia developed the Meditative Process Art (MPA) method through contemplative arts-based research for the Positively Women project with women living with HIV. Her interest in arts-based knowledge translation has led to the development of three virtual exhibitions including: Expressions of Abuse and Agency (https://drawingfree.com.au/).

Further outputs from arts-based research and knowledge translation linked to the Drawing Free exhibition:

An animation of a Photovoice project, “Picturing Lived Experience Before During and After Prison”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSsfJIpVhQ4

A 12-minute video filmed at the art workshop that produced the art works for the Drawing Free Virtual Exhibition: “Drawing Lived Experience of Incarceration”: https://youtu.be/lGlNe43Dyag

LEARN MORE

https://www.thecontemplativeacademy.com

https://positivelywomenproject.com.au/

https://www.ageingwelltogether.co.nz/