Text(ure), Modelling, Collage: Creative Writing and the Visual Arts

Abstract

While there exists some inquiry into the relationship between creative writing and composition, very little investigation has been done into the relationship between creative writing – its pedagogy and practice – and the visual arts. That lack of scholarship is likely due to the difficulties we have conversing in meaningful ways across academic units. This conversation essay is an exchange across disciplines and a blending of theoretical approaches and practical experiences that asserts, ‘creative writing and visual arts – both studio art and graphic design – share underpinnings as academic disciplines of practice, have overlapping goals for students, and address common areas of artistic exploration such as the roles of ritual and experimentation, of self-expression and audience, and of intellect and empathy’.