Art-based research is using the process and making of art as a method of examining and understanding experience.

“Art-based enquiry can be defined as the use of artistic process, and the actual making of artistic expressions in all of the different forms of art, as a primary mode of understanding and examining experience by therapist, client, researcher and research participants (McNiff 2004).” p. 20

Kossak, M. (2012), 'Art-based enquiry: It is what we do!', Journal of Applied Arts & Health 3: 1, pp. 21-29, doi: 10.1386/jaah.3.1.21_1 (1)