Response Art : Exploring three complementary applications of response art in practice, supervision, teaching and research in art therapy

This article highlights new and different ways that response art has developed and is being applied in the practice of art therapy. Primarily focusing on the art made by therapists in response to their clinical work, this article presents a summative review of each author’s published research and practice findings on response art, whilst also looking at overlaps, divergent emphases and combined outcomes. The authors then offer three themes that build on this innovative approach: (1) valuing the artist-therapist identity, (2) how art can hold tension and uncertainty and (3) the restorative effects of making art for clinical processing.