Julia Lockheart

Lockheart completed her Bachelor of Arts (BA, Honours) in Fine Art from Saint Martins School of Art, University of the Arts London; and her Foundation Diploma in Art and Design at the Stourbridge School of Art, Design and Technology. She also holds a Certificate in Teaching Learners with Specific Learning Difficulties (Dyslexia) from OCR at University College London's Centre for Human Communication; and an Adult Education Teaching Certificate in English as a second or foreign language (EFL) at Morley College in London. and an MA in Fine Art from Manchester Metropolitan University. She was awarded her Ph.D from the Design Department of Goldsmiths, University of London, in 2016. Her thesis was on the subject of collaborative writing as a tool for design teams at Master's degree-level in higher education. == Career ==

Lockheart currently works as a metadesign researcher and Associate Lecturer in Design Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London; Her other research strand focuses on writing in art and design, for which she is the co-founder and Director of the Writing-PAD network Lockheart is a member of the National Association of Writers in Education, the Staff and Educational Development Association, and The Idries Shah Foundation, formerly The Institute for Cultural Research; Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. == Writing ==

In 2018, Lockheart published an academic paper, "The importance of writing as a material practice for art and design students: A contemporary rereading of the Coldstream Reports". William Coldstream was an English realist painter and art teacher. In 1960, the council published its first report, named after Coldstream, which proposed and set out requirements for a new Diploma in Art and Design (Dip.A.D.), such as written essays and written examinations, and "helped to change the structure of art school teaching in Britain". According to the study carried out by Lockheart, the recommendation of academic writing for practitioners contained in the Coldstream Reports were misread and, as a result, strong beliefs were formed among academics and those in managerial positions throughout the Higher Education (HE) sector. – an online academic and research network connecting over 100 institutions. Lockheart is also co-editor of the Journal of Writing in Creative Practice, which she co-founded with Goldsmiths' Emeritus Professor and University of Wales Trinity Saint David's Professor of Practice, John Wood. == DreamsID ==

DreamsID (short for "Dreams Illustrated and Discussed" or "Dreams Interpreted and Drawn") is a practical, collaborative project between Lockheart and research psychologist, Professor Mark Blagrove. In October 2020 and January 2021, Lockheart and Blagrove held online events to commemorate the 120th anniversaries of Sigmund Freud's patient Dora telling two dreams to Freud. The first dream was of being rescued from a burning house by her father, the second was of travelling to her father's funeral. In June 2023 Blagrove and Lockheart held an event at the C. G. Jung Institute, Zürich, in Küsnacht, Switzerland, as part of the conference marking the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Institute. In recognition of the Dadaist influence on the DreamsID collaboration, in July 2023 Blagrove and Lockheart held an event at the Cabaret Voltaire, Zürich. The painting of the dream from the Cabaret Voltaire event and a film made of that event were included in an article in 2024 in Psyche magazine, on the science of dreaming, empathy and group bonding. In March 2024 a painting of a dream by Lockheart was included in the article "Does dreaming have a function?" in The Psychologist, a publication of the British Psychological Society. The Zurich 2023 C.G. Jung Institute and Cabaret Voltaire Dream Salons and paintings are detailed in Blagrove and Lockheart (2025), as part of a discussion of the relationships between Jungian psychology, Dada, and the sharing and painting of dreams. To commemorate the centenary of the founding of surrealism, Lockheart and Blagrove held a symposium, Methodological Approaches to Studying Dreams: Surrealism and Dreams, Film, Poetry, and Art: with Live Painting of Breton's (1924) Urinal Dream, at the 41st annual conference of the International Association for the Study of Dreams in The Netherlands, in June 2024. As part of the International Society for the Study of Surrealism's commemorations in October 2024 for the centenary of the founding of Surrealism, Lockheart's painting of the flying urinal dream that André Breton had in 1924 (Spector, 1989) was chosen for exhibition at the American University of Paris. In November 2024, Lockheart and Blagrove held a Dream Salon at the Freud Museum London in which a recent dream of ceramic artist Abigail Shama was discussed and painted. Lockheart's artworks were shown as part of the exhibition Le temps d’un rêve / Within the space of a dream at the Musée des Confluences, Lyon, France, October 2024 to August 2025. Lockheart was interviewed in April 2025 for the catalogue of the exhibition TRÄUME ... TRÄUMEN / DREAMING ... DREAMS; at Museum Schallaberg, Austria. Four of her paintings were shown as part of the exhibition. == Selected publications==

Books • (Hardcover), (Paperback) Print publications / chapters • Chapter 15: Mark Blagrove, Julia Lockheart (2025), "Jung, Dada, and the Discussion and Painting of Dreams" . • Chapter 10: Edwards, H. and Lockheart, J. (2013), "Creative Writing and the Other Arts". • Lockheart, J., Gamble, M., Miller, J., Fisher, G., and Henderson, D. (2008), "Practice-based learning and teaching: a real world experience?" Articles in journals • • • • • • • • Paper on the benefits of sharing dreams, given at the 35th annual conference of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, Scottsdale, Arizona, 16–20 June 2018. • Paper given at the 35th annual conference of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, Scottsdale, Arizona, 16–20 June 2018. • Online . • • Online . == See also ==