The illuminators of Artistic Mind featured in our Dedication Gallery are multiversed and multidiscipinary. They are not all practising artists in the common use of the word – as a profession or social role. They are all artistically minded in their approach to learning, knowledge and authentic expression.

Read Maxine Greene on Metaphors and Responsibility

Here you will find reflected nuggets of nous from the explorations of mystics, writers, painters, poets, philosophers, dancers, actors, activists, teachers, biologists, designers, architects, historians, shamans, sculptors, scientists, psychologists, sages and more. As free-spirited individuals they have each found their own way to enter the infinite source of creativity known as nous – whether it be through reverie, wonder, meditation, ecstasy, dreaming, active imagination or embodied practises.

Read Eugenio Barba on theatre as an embodied know-how

And they have translated their insights into an array of languages capable of handling the abstract such as poetic words, evocative images, potent symbols, meaningful movements, and resonant sounds.

Listen to Nora Bateson on art as a paradox of communication