Ecologies of Care

Art Therapy and Material Culture

Art Therapy and Climate Change

Art Therapy and Social Engagement 

Art Therapy and Contemporary Art 

Cultural Practice Art Therapy: Museums, Galleries, Libraries and Parks

Festival Art Therapy 

Performance Art and Art Therapy 

Art Installations as Therapeutic Environments 

Land Art and the Outdoor Studio 

The Walking Studio 

The Art of Gardening 

Choreography and Movement within Art Therapy 

Lecturer as Curator: Designing Art Therapy Education with Cultural Partners  

Art Therapy Pedagogy: Collaborations with Artists, Activists and Social Innovators 

Pamela trained as an art therapist in Vancouver and has worked in Canada, Malaysia and Ireland. She is interested in contemporary art and creative health, art therapy in museums and galleries, environmental art therapy, the walking studio, and ecologies of care in civic practice and higher education.

She is a member of the Irish Association of Creative Arts Therapists and the British Association of Art Therapists and registered with the Health and Care Professions Council.

Pamela is the founding co-editor of Polyphony: Journal of the Irish Association of Creative Arts Therapists and past editor of the Canadian Art Therapy Association Journal. She was also a special issue co-editor on the topic of nature assisted art therapy for the International Journal of Art Therapy. She has served on the editorial board for Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association and is currently a peer reviewer for the International Journal of Art Therapy.

Pamela is a co-investigator for CHOICE, Challenging Health Outcomes/Integrating Care Environments: A Community Consortium to Tackle Health Disparities for People Living with Mental Illness funded by the Arts Humanities Research Council, which is a research project led by Professor Gerard Leavey, Director of the Bamford Centre for Mental Health and Wellbeing aiming to improve the quality of life for people with lived experience of mental health challenges.

She was a Practice Based Researcher in Residence at the Void Arts Centre (Northern Ireland) funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council's Impact Accelerator Account. The focus of her research was the art of gardening incorporating topics such as place based health, climate change gardening, the de-colonisation of gardening and artists who garden.

Pamela has written chapters for the following books:

1. Materials and Media in Art Therapy: Critical Understandings of Diverse Artistic Vocabularies edited by Catherine Hyland Moon
2. Art Therapy and Postmodernism edited by Helene Burt
3. Found Objects in Art Therapy edited by Daniel Wong and Ronald Lay
4. Bridging the Creative Arts Therapies and Arts in Health edited by Donna Betts and Val Huet
5. Ecopoiesis: A New Perspective for the Expressive and Creative Arts Therapies in the 21st Century edited by Stephen K. Levine and Alexander Kopytin
6. Social Entrepreneurship in Art Therapy edited by Jennifer DeLucia
7. The Design of Care: Design Research for Change edited by Craig Bremner, Paul A. Rodgers, Giovanni Innella and Justin Magee
8. Sharing Agricultural and Gardening Cultures in Ireland: Writers and Artists edited by Maria Mianowski and Valérie Morrison
9. Materials and Media in Art Therapy: Contemporary Theory and Practice edited by Catherine Hyland Moon

She has also written editorials and articles on environmental art therapy, material and visual culture, festival art therapy and art therapy pedagogy, most notably: Full On - Festival Art Therapy, Make Yourself at Home: Home Studios as Pedagogical Practice (co-written with Dr. Chris McHugh), Textile Pedagogies: Stitching as Reflective Practice (co-written with Dr. Lorna Dillon and Erika Silva) and The Walking Studio: The Art of Wayfaring.

Pamela has been a conference keynote speaker for the Canadian Art Therapy Association, the Hong Kong Association of Art Therapists and the Healing through Photography conference at Belfast Exposed Photography Gallery. She was also a visiting artist for the MA Art Therapy course at LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore. Currently she is an honorary lecturer for the MSc Art Psychotherapy course at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh.

Pamela is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and has achieved a MEd and Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education Practice from Ulster University.

She is also the External Examiner for the MA Art Psychotherapy programme at the University of Roehampton.