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‘Art is for everyone and if you’re chronically ill, art is everything’
-Mellissa Monsoon
Danielle Radway and Mellissa Monsoon shared their journey of what it is like to live with chronic health conditions with their second exhibition together: RESILIENCE
In 2018 Monsoon was diagnosed with Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension (IIH), a brain condition with no known cause or cure. Radway was diagnosed with Chiari Malformation 1 and Syringomyelia in 2008 and later diagnosed with Acromegaly in 2015.
The exhibition explored what it is like for women living with illnesses in the healthcare system and how art can help visualise invisible symptoms. Both artists shared their diagnostic journeys and how art has helped them process these life changes to be able to spread awareness.
Artworks included interactive art, illustration, printmaking, body casts, ceramics, photography, painting, video and sculpture.
There are so many sides to chronic illnesses. You have to learn patience and acceptance but most importantly making sure you are able to take good moments with the not so good, find your joy and keep your sparkle.
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