Dr JILL WESTWOOD is an artist, art psychotherapist and researcher working across a range of art practices spanning photography, film, performance and writing. Westwood’s “life as art” approach in the 1980s explored sexuality, challenging patriarchal codes towards a deeper understanding of human struggles. Westwood was in the industrial noise-performance phenomenon Fistfuck (1981-84). Moving through various phases of art practices, the 1980s-1990s were an intensive immersion in London underground arts/fashion/nightclub scenes, followed by a period in 1990s-2010s of living in Australia and expanding her arts practices through art psychotherapy, education and research. This involved the formation and ongoing collaboration SJSJ, a group of artist-art psychotherapist-educators (Sheridan Linnell, Josephine Pretorius, Suzanne Perry, Jill Westwood). From 2010s onwards, Westwood returned to the UK to be reunited with earlier collaborators (Antal Nemeth –NEMETHWESTWOOD23, Alex Binnie, Christine Binnie – Miss Marina Psychopomp and the Neo-Naturists). This period also marks a period of art projects with the MA Art Psychotherapy Team at Goldsmiths and the ongoing collaboration with Lesley Morris, a fellow artist-art psychotherapist-educator.

Westwood's work has featured in group exhibitions including CONDO London hosting sans titre, Paris, Sadie Coles HQ, London (2026); Systema, Palais Carli, Marseille (2025); Leigh Bowery!, Tate Modern, London (2025); Women in Revolt: Art and Activism in the UK 1970-1990, Tate Britain, London/National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh/Whitworth Gallery, Manchester (2023-25), amongst others. Her films have been screened at the British Film Institute, London (2014, 2024). Her publications include book chapters, articles and co-editorship of Art Therapy in Australia: Taking a Postcolonial, Aesthetic Turn (Brill Sense: 2019). She has led MA Art Psychotherapy programs at Western Sydney University and Goldsmiths University, London.