Emma Fayelecaun BVA, MA. TAP, AThR (Community Arts & Health)
Emma is a multi disciplinary artist and creative arts therapist, who engages a range of modalities to realise her work.
Emma facilitates groups and private 1:1 arts-based inquiry sessions.
She has a her own creative practise in embodied dance and movement improvisation, lens based media, writing, drawing, collage, paint and printmaking, she also teaches therapeutic arts practise.
Emma holds; Diploma in Fine Art (98-05) Cert iv Film and Screen (06-07) Bachelors in Visual Art (08-18) Masters in Therapeutic Arts Practise (20-22)
Working in community arts for over 20 years in Australia, Ireland, Russia and Jordan, Emma recognises lived and embodied experience as both the core and the fruit of our stories; stories that want to be heard in both their dreaming and their meaning states. Her practise orbits around themes of connection, creation and the acknowledgement and dismantling of systems that no longer serve.
She uses both two and three dimensional methods to tell her stories, suggest alternate realities, expand into meaning and generate critical social dialogue. Her work largley considers human ecologies;, individual connection to self, to others and to place. Emma is interested in how our values, systems of belief and connections are formed and what causes their mutation, transformation and change. Acknowledging that all experience is processed, imagined and understood via the body, her works seeks to represents human patterns, habitual behaviours, thoughts, movements and connections to other bodies; whether they be human, inanimate or environmental.
Expanding her arts practise into therapy has allowed for her curiosity and interest in people along with her collaborative nature to be engaged in a way that promotes and supports human connection, creativity and mental wellness.
Her work is rooted in motivating equitable, accessible and compassionate futures while broadening her own capacity for love and for human-ness.
Emma is a mother of two, she lives and works in Naarm (Melbourne) on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri people, Kulin Country, (Australia).
