School of Creative
Industries
Fauzia Ramadhani Bahriyoen (Ojay)
Fauzia has experience in working with children with developmental difficulties using an applied behaviour analysis (ABA) approach and advocating mental health in Indonesia via community engagement.
Blending an ABA approach and art psychotherapy, Fauzia provided art-based therapeutic sessions for children and adolescents who encountered complex trauma and attachment challenges.
She uses diverse media including painting and portraiture alongside play, repetitive art-making and tactile art to fuel her curiosity and create more artworks in her spare time.
Work
Nafas Nafisa
Yarn, cotton, clay in acrylic box
25.4 x 25.4 x 25.4 cm
2024
Let’s take five seconds to just breathe...
Breathing can be seen as something easy, natural and automatic. Sometimes, we take breathing for granted.
‘Nafas’ in Indonesian means breath, whereas ‘Nafisa’ in Arabic means precious. Nafas Nafisa depicts the artist’s view of how breath is precious. The artwork invites audiences to acknowledge how important it is to pause and breathe, even amidst the hustle and bustle of life. Pacing the self through breathing is what we all need to be present and ready.
Thesis abstract
The role of response art as self-care: A qualitative inquiry in Singapore while providing art therapy to a female adolescent within a residential home
Self-care is imperative in sustaining work-life balance and professional development of a mental health professional, such as an art therapist. Exploration of self-care as a crucial aspect of clinical practice may not be a new research, however there is still a gap of study in how the engagement of art-making contributes as self-care. The aim of this thesis was to explore the role of response art as a self-care activity for an art therapist trainee providing art therapy sessions for a female adolescent in a residential home in Singapore.
Using art-based research (ABR) and phenomenological qualitative study, response art was chosen to portray how art-making served as a self-care activity. Images of the response art alongside reflective writings were analysed and consolidated a result of how response art facilitates regulation, expression and label of an experience, and the here and now. These then contributes to prevention of overspilling unresolved emotions to personal life and clients’ sessions and active response to countertransference. Alongside the impact of artistic process, this study also found that art materials facilitate creating physical and emotional boundaries which then contributes to transition from professional to personal life and transition period from one client to another.