Living Arts Therapy & Co-Design

16/12/2025

Been working on this blanket since March. Still not finished. Hundreds of hours, and lots of pain. My EDS affects my hands badly so I can only crochet for short periods and with days or weeks off in between. The braces help. Social media is an illusion where wools throw yarn in the air and a blanket appears. That’s not reality. It’s slow, tedious and also painful at times. Let’s sit with that instead of some weird capitalist productivity machine ideology. The retail value of this blanket would be thousands of dollars if it were based on my effort and time. Luckily, it’s just something I made whilst living in a pretty homophobic place, a reminder that my community still existed despite being silenced. It was an act of resistance for me against that silence

12/12/2025

Holiday hArts is a FREE online open art-based space that runs every year to bridge the gap in December and January when many people experience service and support withdrawal alongside increased stress and need for connection. There is no requirement to attend the group once you receive the email or attend every group. You can join the space at any time in the session window below.

HOLIDAY hARTS SESSION DATES AND TIMES

Tuesday 24 December 2024: 3pm - 5pm (AEDT)
Wednesday 25 December 2024: 6pm - 8pm (AEDT)
Thursday 26 December 2024: 6pm - 8pm (AEDT)
Tuesday 31 December 2024: 3pm - 5pm (AEDT)
Wednesday 1 January 2025: 6pm - 8pm (AEDT)
The program is totally free and open to anyone with access to the internet from anywhere in the world. The dates are in Australian Eastern Daylight Saving Time (AEDT).

Linktree in bio or visit www.livingartstherapy.com/holidays

11/12/2025

WIP, I guess…..

09/12/2025

I have never drawn faces “smiling”. When I was in school that was commented on a lot, so I started drawing smiling faces. Then I got to art school and they were like “what’s with the smiling faces!!” So I stopped again, which felt better. I’m not much of a smiler but I smiled for so many years. Because I was masking. Now the people in my art never smile and neither do I, unless it’s really real. That’s unmasking. What’s does your unmasked self look like?

05/12/2025

WHAT’S HAPPENING IN 2026 AT LIVING ARTS?

Holiday hArts - a free art-based community care peer space to land over the holidays.
- not therapy - just community connection
- no scheduled tasks or prompts
- drop in and out
- Ages 16+ welcome
- FREE

Autistic Identity Art Therapy Group Program
- Applications open now
- Begins late January
- 12 week program exploring autistic identity for late diagnosed humans
- May be accessed under NDIS plans fo some
- Ages 18+ Australian residents only

Open Art Therapy Group
- EOI open for 2026 groups
- Ages 16+ welcome
- Semi-structured art therapy groups (2 hours)
- May be accessed under NDIS plans fo some

**All my spaces are online using zoom**

For more information, head to my website www.livingartstherapy.com or use linktree in bio.

01/12/2025

I went to a drawing soace tonight. There was a still life set out for us (see picture 2 & 3). I have an autistic brain and I’m also a synesthete. I have never seen the world like most people. I saw the flowers and the colour and there were new people I just met. All of that is a sensory overload for me. Not always negative, but it’s a lot of moving colours everywhere. This is what I created from that still life. Instead of painting the still life, I painted my internal and external reaction to it. The artist facilitating the space didn’t seem to mind. We spoke about autism and synaesthesia and what it means to be creative… sometimes it’s nice to know that there are people who will let you be, even if they don’t get it, they are okay to sit beside it.
Maybe next week I will go back.


Artwork title: “there is no such thing as a still life”
Watercolour pencils and oil pastels.

06/11/2025

Goodbye to my resident blue tongue, Thug. Good to see you out and awake again buddy. You were here the first day I moved into this house and you’re here the day I leave. You are such a lovely shy slow boy and I’m glad you always seemed happy, slow and chunky. I hope the next tenants treat you with kindness and give you all the space you need to life your best life.

14/10/2025

♥️🧡💛💚💙💜 still shining 🤍💗🩵🤎🖤❤️‍🩹

29/09/2025

New friendo - broad-tailed gecko. So beautiful. 🦎

25/09/2025

30/08/2025

HERE WE GO AGAIN! The next intake round is coming up soon!

AUTISTIC IDENTITY ART THERAPY GROUP PROGRAM
EOI NOW OPEN - Program begins late September – limited space available

The Autistic Identity Art Therapy Group is a 12-week online group art therapy program dedicated to celebrating and strengthening autistic people through art practice and process, mutual exploration and community connection. It applies the concepts and framework of Art Therapy, Narrative Therapy and Intentional Peer Support. Conducted within a trauma and neuro/diversity informed framework, the program intentionally celebrates q***r, First Nations and disabled people as a social justice action.

We will explore psychoeducation materials, share strategies and management techniques and most importantly engage in creative expression and artmaking together to support us to embrace autism.

The first step is to complete the Expression of Interest form to ensure our space is a good fit for you. We will contact you via email after this is complete.

12/08/2025

I made my first pair of winter pj pants (YES THEY HAVE POCKETS!!!) from scratch with help from Nettie at and because I like to embarrass my pug Skykar as much as possible, we also made Skylar a matching jumper.
Thanks for the custom fitting at home Nettie 🧵🪡🌻✨🌟