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

References

1. Allen, Pat (1995), Art is a Way of Knowing, Boston, MA: Shambhala.
   [Google Scholar]
2. Chen, Janice D. and O’Sullivan, Jane (2023), ‘An occupational therapist’s heuristic self-inquiry using el duende one-canvas process painting to explore one’s emerging art therapist identity’, Arts in Psychotherapy, 85, pp. 1–11, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aip.2023.102052.
   [Google Scholar]
3. Chilton, Gioia, Lynskey, Kristin, Ohnstad, Erica and Manders, Elizabeth (2021), ‘A case of el duende: Art based supervision in addiction treatment’, Art Therapy, 38:3, pp. 137–45, https://doi.org/10.1080/07421656.2020.1771138.
   [Google Scholar]
4. Eisner, Cilla (2016), ‘Collagegrids: Generative metaphor and emergent composition – the interplay of inherited tradition with human agency in fine art practice’, Journal of Visual Art Practice, 15:1, pp. 50–62, https://doi.org/10.1080/14702029.2016.1141562.
   [Google Scholar]
5. Fish, Barbara (2006), ‘Image-based narrative inquiry of response art in art therapy’, doctoral dissertation, Cincinnati, OH: Union Institute & University.
   [Google Scholar]
6. Fish, Barbara J. (2008), ‘Formative evaluation research of art-based supervision in art therapy training’, Art Therapy, 25:2, pp. 70–77, https://doi.org/10.1080/07421656.2008.10129410.
   [Google Scholar]
7. Fish, Barbara J. (2012), ‘Response art: The art of the art therapist’, Art Therapy, 29:3, pp. 138–43, https://doi.org/10.1080/07421656.2012.701594.
   [Google Scholar]
8. Fish, Barbara J. (2013), ‘Painting research: Challenges and opportunities of intimacy and depth’, in S. McNiff (ed.), Art as Research: Opportunities and Challenges, Bristol: Intellect, pp. 209–19.
   [Google Scholar]
9. Fish, Barbara J. (2017), Art-Based Supervision: Cultivating Therapeutic Insight through Imagery, London: Routledge.
   [Google Scholar]
10. Fish, Barbara J. (2019), ‘Response art in art therapy: Historical and contemporary overview’, Art Therapy, 36:3, pp. 122–32, https://doi.org/10.1080/07421656.2019.1648915.
    [Google Scholar]
11. Fish, Barbara J. (2023), ‘Response art: A resource for practice and supervision, in person and online’, Journal of Applied Arts & Health, 14:1, pp. 73–84, https://doi.org/10.1386/jaah_00128_1.
    [Google Scholar]
12. Fish, Barbara J. (2025), ‘Drawing and painting research’, in P. Leavy (ed.), Handbook of Arts-Based Research, 2nd ed., New York: Guilford, pp. 336–56.
    [Google Scholar]
13. Gartland, Louise (2012), ‘Creating space: An exploration into the use of pre-session art-making to process clinical content’, M.Sc. dissertation, London: University of East London.
    [Google Scholar]
14. Gavron, Tami and Orkibi, Hod (2021), ‘Arts-based supervision training for creative arts therapists: Perceptions and implications’, Arts in Psychotherapy, 75, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aip.2021.101838.
    [Google Scholar]
15. Havsteen-Franklin, Dominic and Camarena Altamirano, Jorge (2015), ‘Containing the uncontainable: Responsive art making in art therapy as a method to facilitate mentalisation’, International Journal of Art Therapy, 20:2, pp. 54–65, https://doi.org/10.1080/17454832.2015.1023322.
    [Google Scholar]
16. Lis-Ron, Vika, Gavron, Tami and Bat-Or, Michal (2024a), ‘Experienced art therapists’ perceptions of the EDPP supervision model and its impact on their professional work and identity’, Clinical Supervisor, 44:1, pp. 99–123, https://doi.org/10.1080/07325223.2024.2427002.
    [Google Scholar]
17. Lis-Ron, Vika, Gavron, Tami and Bat-Or, Michal (2024b), ‘The one-canvas model as a visual container for the researcher-supervisor’, International Journal of Art Therapy, 30:2, pp. 91–101, https://doi.org/10.1080/17454832.2024.2313719.
    [Google Scholar]
18. Lis-Ron, Vika, Gavron, Tami and Bat-Or, Michal (2025), ‘Impact of EDPP supervision on creative arts therapists’ professional development, art-working alliance, and openness to experience’, Art Therapy, pp. 1–12, https://doi.org/10.1080/07421656.2025.2490413.
    [Google Scholar]
19. Lorca, Federico-Garcia (2024), Finding Duende: Duende: Play and Theory: Imagination, Inspiration, Evasion (ed. J. Leon and trans. C. Maurer), Chicago, IL: Swan Isle Press.
    [Google Scholar]
20. Marshall-Tierney, Andrew (2021), ‘Therapist art making as a means of helping service users with anxiety problems’, International Journal of Art Therapy, 26:1&2, pp. 47–54, https://doi.org/10.1080/17454832.2021.1918193.
    [Google Scholar]
21. Marshall-Tierney, Andrew (2014), ‘Making art with and without patients in acute settings’, International Journal of Art Therapy, 19:3, pp. 96–106, https://doi.org/10.1080/17454832.2014.913256.
    [Google Scholar]
22. McNiff, Shaun (1998), Art-Based Research, London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
    [Google Scholar]
23. McNiff, Shaun (2013), Art as Research: Opportunities and Challenges, Bristol: Intellect.
    [Google Scholar]
24. McNiff, Shaun (2018), ‘Doing art-based research: An advising scenario’, in R. W. Prior (ed.), Art as Research in Learning and Teaching: Multidisciplinary Approaches across the Arts, Bristol: Intellect, pp. 79–89.
    [Google Scholar]
25. Miller, Abbe (2012), ‘Inspired by el duende: One-canvas process painting in art therapy supervision’, Art Therapy, 29:4, pp. 166–73, https://doi.org/10.1080/07421656.2013.730024.
    [Google Scholar]
26. Miller, Abbe (2019), ‘Multiple roles in art therapy supervision: Using el duende one-canvas process painting’, in A. DiMaria (ed.), Exploring Ethical Dilemmas in Art Therapy: 50 Clinicians from 20 Countries Share Their Stories, London: Routledge, pp. 339–51.
    [Google Scholar]
27. Miller, Abbe (2020), One-Canvas Method: Art Making that Transforms on One Surface over a Sustained Period of Time, doctoral dissertation, Cambridge, MA: Lesley University, https://digitalcommons.lesley.edu/expressive_dissertations/94/. Accessed 10 January 2025.
    [Google Scholar]
28. Miller, Abbe (2022), ‘El duende one-canvas art making and the significance of an interim period’, Art Therapy, 39:1, pp. 24–33, https://doi.org/10.1080/07421656.2021.1935062.
    [Google Scholar]
29. Miller, Abbe (2023a), ‘Discovery of art-based distillation: Doctoral inquiry of the one canvas method’, Journal of Applied Arts & Health, 14:3, pp. 391–402, https://doi.org/10.1386/jaah_00149_1.
    [Google Scholar]
30. Miller, Abbe (2023b), ‘The innovative essence of the el duende one-canvas method.’, Journal of Applied Arts & Health, 14:1, pp. 27–45, https://doi.org/10.1386/jaah_00125_1.
    [Google Scholar]
31. Miller, Abbe (2024), ‘El duende one-canvas method across modalities: Art therapy supervision, practice and self-care’, Innovation in the Arts Conference: 50th Anniversary of the Arts Therapies, University of Hertfordshire, Hertfordshire, 19–20 July.
    [Google Scholar]
32. Miller, Abbe and Robb, Megan (2016), ‘Layering as a mechanism of change in el duende one canvas process painting’, 47th Annual Conference of the American Art Therapy Association, Baltimore, Maryland, 6–10 July.
33. Miller, Abbe and Robb, Megan (2017), ‘‘Transformative phases in el duende process painting art-based supervision’, Arts in Psychotherapy, 54:4, pp. 15–27, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aip.2017.02.009.
    [Google Scholar]
34. Miller, Abbe and Schlanger, Zoe (2025), ‘El duende one-canvas process painting as a method for individual arts-based supervision’, Arts in Psychotherapy, 96, November, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aip.2025.102371.
    [Google Scholar]
35. Nash, Gary (2020), ‘Response art in art therapy practice and research with a focus on reflect piece imagery’, International Journal of Art Therapy, 25:1, pp. 39–48, https://doi.org/10.1080/17454832.2019.1697307.
    [Google Scholar]
36. Nash, Gary (2021), ‘The principles of an art-based research design: Response art and art therapy research’, in V. Huet and L. Kapitan (eds), The Emerging Picture: International Advances in Art Therapy Research & Practice, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 103–11.
    [Google Scholar]
37. Nash, Gary (2022), ‘Integrative research: Using art to research art’, in C. L. Vaculik and G. Nash (eds), Integrative Arts Psychotherapy: Using an Integrative Theoretical Frame and the Arts in Psychotherapy, London: Routledge, pp. 196–208.
    [Google Scholar]
38. Nash, Gary (2023), ‘Placing art at the centre of art-based practice and research’, Journal of Applied Arts & Health, 14:3, pp. 379–90, https://doi.org/10.1386/jaah_00148_1.
    [Google Scholar]
39. Nash, Gary and Zentner, Michiyo (2023), ‘Working alongside: Communicating visual empathy within collaborative art therapy’, Journal of Applied Arts & Health, Special Issue: ‘Innovation in the Arts in Therapy’, 14:1, pp. 85–99, https://doi.org/10.1386/jaah_00129_1.
    [Google Scholar]
40. Navarro, Tracylynn (2003), ‘The use of art making to recount parallel process in the supervisory relationship: A pilot study’, unpublished doctoral dissertation, Philadelphia, PA: Drexel University.
    [Google Scholar]
41. Reichelt, Sissel, Gullestad, Siri E., Hansen, Bjørg R., Rᴓnnestad, Michael H., Torgersen, Anne M., Jacobsen, Claude H., Nielsen, Geir H. and Skjerve, Jan (2009), ‘Nondisclosure in psychotherapy group supervision: The supervisee perspective’, Nordic Psychology, 61:4, pp. 5–27, https://dx.doi.org/10.1027/1901-2276.61.4.28.
    [Google Scholar]
42. Robb, Megan and Miller, Abbe (2017), ‘Supervisee art-based disclosure in el duende process painting’, Art Therapy, 34:4, pp. 192–200, https://doi.org/10.1080/07421656.2017.1398576.
    [Google Scholar]
43. Robbins, Arthur (2007), ‘The art of supervision’, in J. Schaverien and C. Case (eds), Supervision of Art Psychotherapy: A Theoretical and Practical Handbook, London: Routledge, pp. 153–66.
    [Google Scholar]
44. Sager, Leigh (2025), ‘50th Anniversary Art Therapy Conference at the University of Hertfordshire: Reflections on response art’, Journal of Applied Arts & Health, 16:1, pp. 127–32, https://doi.org/10.1386/jaah_00189_5.
    [Google Scholar]
45. Satiel, Julia, and Elliott, Lois (2002), ‘State of the art’, in J. Berke, M. Fagan, G. Mak-Pearce and S. Pierides-Müller (eds), Beyond Madness, Philadelphia, PA: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, pp. 147–56.
    [Google Scholar]
46. Skovholt, Thomas M. and Trotter-Mathison, Michelle (2016), The Resilient Practitioner: Burnout and Compassion Fatigue Prevention and Self-Care Strategies for the Helping Professions, 3rd ed., London: Routledge.
    [Google Scholar]
47. Sullivan, Anne M. (2000), ‘Voices inside schools: Notes from a marine biologist’s daughter – on the art and science of attention’, Harvard Educational Review, 70:2, pp. 211–27, https://doi.org/10.17763/haer.70.2.x8601x6tn8p256wk.
    [Google Scholar]
48. Wadeson, Harriet (2003), ‘Making art for professional processing’, Journal of American Art Therapy Association, 20:4, pp. 208–18.
    [Google Scholar]
49. Walker, Sidney and Walker, Sydney (2004), ‘Artmaking in an age of visual culture: Vision and visuality.’, Visual Arts Research, 2:59, pp. 23–37, http://ed.arte.gov.tw/uploadfile/periodical/908_0203_7292.pdf. Accessed 4 November 2025.
    [Google Scholar]