Research.
Relational Arts Lab is interested in the lived experience of making and relating - and in what becomes visible when we pay closer attention to what happens between people.
Our research brings psychotherapy, creative practice and relational thinking into conversation, exploring questions of subjectivity, participation, authority, difference, embodiment and care.
The work is developing through practice-based inquiry, conversations, writing and collaborative research.
Themes
Subjectivity
How do we experience ourselves in relation to others? How do personal histories, identities, relationships and environments shape the ways we make, participate and are seen?
Creative Practice
Artist Wellbeing
What conditions support sustainable, meaningful creative lives? How do we navigate the pressures, rewards and precarity of artistic work - and what role do relationships, communities and environments play in our wellbeing?
What happens to the self when we make, perform and collaborate? How do creative processes shape our sense of self, our relationships and our capacity to be with uncertainty, risk and change?
Current Projects:
Ongoing exploratory conversations bringing together artists and practitioners to think about subjectivity in creative practice: how personal histories, relationships, environments and experiences of being seen shape the ways we make and participate.
This forms part of an emerging strand of inquiry into the relationship between creative practice, relational experience and the self.
Next event: December 2026
SUBJECTIVITY IN CREATIVE PRACTICE
An informal reading group exploring ideas that sit around the work of Relational Arts Lab — subjectivity, relationships, bodies, power, difference, creativity and the ways we live and work together.
We read across psychotherapy, philosophy, cultural theory, fiction and the arts. You don’t need an academic background, or to have understood everything before you arrive. The point is to think together.
Join the group here
READING TOGETHER
MORE TO COME
We are developing further research, writing and collaborations around relational experience in creative practice, with particular interest in subjectivity, creative practice and artists’ wellbeing.
HAVE A QUESTION WE SHOULD BE THINKING ABOUT?
We’re interested in conversations with artists, researchers, therapists, educators and organisations whose work intersects with these questions.