Gemma Garcia Visual Artist: Brisbane City Council ARTFORCE Awards- Gemma Garcia

Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Brisbane City Council ARTFORCE Awards- Gemma Garcia

GEMMA Garcia Visual Artist

JOINT RUNNER-UP

in the OVERALL WINNER category of the 2014

Brisbane City Council

ARTFORCE Awards

I am the winner of a prize of Street Art!

Yesterday was the Ceremony!

I am really happy!

Thank you to Urban Smart Projects , and Nicole & team.

About Gemma Garcia Artist

VISUAL ARTIST

Curator and Art Group exhibition coordinator

Sculptor

Director of the Art, Exhibitions, and Performances in Brisbane http://apebrisbane.blogspot.com.au/

Gestalt Art Therapist.

In 1986 she entered as a student of a Private Art Academy where she studied classical art. She studied at that Academy of Art for over five years and then she began studying at the Association of Art in Castellón - Spain.

Here, she met the master sculptor Augustin Ahis who specialized in wood and clay.

In 2003 Gemma begins her Master diploma at the Institute of the Gestalt Therapy - Valencia- Spain with Manuel Ramos's teacher and becomes a trained Gestalt therapist.

She then conducts research about the use of art and therapy with the local department of fire and rescue. She worked for the Spanish government in the Emergency field for 15 years. Her second master degree is in Ericksonian Hypnosis from the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Valencia - Spain, in 2006.

Gemma is Aura-Soma Level 2, she studied with Linda Graham's teacher in Australia 2010. As a visual artist, she uses art as part of her process of personal growth, exploring new forms of expression and therapy. She moved to Australia and founded with Yaro Starak the Gestalt Art Therapy Centre. The only Gestalt Art Therapy Centre is known in the worldwww.gestaltarttherapy.com

They are the Organizers of the First and Second Art Therapy Conference in Bali.

Contact email: ggvisualartist@gmail.com