‘Aesthetic Reflective Judgment’ and transformative experience in the aesthetic encounter:experiences from a walk at Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Over the past two decades there has been significant development of the Creative Health sector (Gordon- Nesbitt, 2017; National Centre for Creative Health, 2023). The term Creative Health encompasses a range of social and creative activities,<br/>however the position of “art”, as the end product of creativity, in this context is less defined. Furthermore, studies tend to focus on conversations about the beneficial impacts of Creative Health activities with less consideration on the specificities<br/>or contingencies of how these impacts may occur (Daykin, 2017). This position piece will focus on the latter- whether viewing a piece of art in an art gallery or museum environment might also be positive for our wellbeing- by way of a discussion about Kantian aesthetic reflective judgement and a phenomenological approach to transformative experience in the aesthetic encounter