SEPTEMBER 2025

SEPTEMBER 2025

PAST EVENTS
Exploring Mental Health, Identity, and Healing through Figurative Painting

Figurative Expressions

  • Day 2, Tuesday Sep 17, 2024
  • 12:00pm-2:00pm AEST
  • Presenter: Kirthana Selvaraj
  • Media: Paint & Painting
  • Skills developed: Colour mixing, Figurative art, Wellbeing & Personal narrative
Exploring Mental Health, Identity, and Healing through Figurative Painting

About the Session

Exploring Mental Health, Identity, and Healing through Figurative Painting

About the Session

In this workshop, we'll delve into the intersection of art, mental health, and personal identity, focusing specifically on the practice of figurative painting.

Through engaging activities, discussions, and reflection, attendees will discover the therapeutic benefits of figurative painting and learn how to use this expressive medium to explore and navigate their inner worlds.

ARTIST

Kirthana Selvaraj

Artist
ARTIST

Kirthana Selvaraj

Kirthana Selvaraj is a Queer, South Asian Artist, working on the unceded Gadigal Land of the Eora Nation (Sydney, Australia).

Drawing on both individual and collective experiences within a Neo-colonial feminist discourse,her practice is centered on Race, intersections of seen and unseen, violence and passivity, Gender and Sexuality.

Artwork Images