ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on two projects where social workers were involved in the production and exhibition of visual works of art in order that stories they represented could have a public voice. It illustrates that visual communication is more than powerful; it is a way of expressing the world that remembers the body, re-animates the body. Visual arts, or simply visual images, have been used in Social Work for some time. Social Work practitioners have already been using visual forms such as drawings, painting, and photography, especially in the therapeutic areas of practice. Social workers have been using visual forms in different guises, possibly as long as the profession has existed. Social change has other pathways, however, which are more organic and diffuse but are nevertheless just as powerful, and these courses can also then go on to affect social policy, of direct interest to social workers.
