
Coral Crissey
Affiliations: Victoria University of Wellington
Location: Wellington, New Zealand
Biography
I am a neurodivergent artist, writer, and PhD researcher in Health Psychology. I first encountered body mapping in relation to my own creative practice, which began during my undergraduate degree with a life-sized body map poem about living with chronic hemiplegic migraine and PTSD. I later supported other students in developing similar works, which helped me recognise this as an early form of body mapping.
Since then, I have facilitated arts-based reflection workshops through community organising spaces. I am drawn to creative methods that make experiences visible that are often difficult to express in words alone.
My current research explores how neurodivergent students across Aotearoa create, adapt, and share health technologies through their sensory experiences of university. I am particularly interested in body mapping and crip cartography as ways of understanding access, epistemic justice, and wellbeing.
