Pauline Stanley is a Socially Engaged Artist and an Arts & Health Practitioner with 20 years experience of joyously working with a wide range of communities.
- MA Art, Psyche and The Creative Imagination, University of Shannon, Eire. A Jungian based MA in analytical/depth psychology.
- BA (Hons) Fine Art from Arts University Bournemouth, Dorset.
- Experienced arts, craft and textile workshop leader
- Psychiatric Nursing Sister RNMS
- Reflexologist and Aromatherapist
- Initiator of many successful projects and an emissary of social change
A few contemplations and questions that currently inform and nourish her practice:
- What does a successful artist look like in a time of global change?
- How do you maintain a creative practice for a sustainable future?
- How do you make art as if the world matters?
- Understanding the nature of cultural myths and how they evolve.
- Why has the Mythic and the Sacred have been reduced to rags and how does art play a role in restoring them?
- How does the role of Elder, as a bridge and holder of sacred space, work in this time of deep cultural transformation?
- How do artists function as leaders of social change?