Entries 2010
Emily Matthews – PaIn
It’s a poem and graphic piece that represents how pain has affected my life in the last few weeks. The poem, because I know the text is a tad smal [...]
Tess Patrick – Grin and bear it
A photograph I took at the Pain Awareness Dr Sketchy evening.
Contorted, distorted and in extreme discomfort.. at odds with his surroundings, under [...]
James Bennett – Tree of Temperance
Some days I feel pretty much like a tree, knotted and bound to the ground beneath my feet.
Sophia Le Lièvre – Fred
This is a picture of Sophia’s pain which she drew especially for Pain Awareness Month. Her pain is called Fred, she wrote a poem about Fred and has [...]
Craig Ellis – “I Once Had A Headache”
“I Once Had A Headache” tells the story of how unbelievably long one intense headache can last from a Traumatic Brain Injury. It is one side effec [...]
Nick Keesing – Tower of pain
The piece has been taken from a tarot card known as ‘the Tower’. The original has been significantly altered and rendered into a watercolour via m [...]
Alexandria Leonard – Metamorphosis
Pain changes you; for better or worse. One can discover new paths of life when others are taken away. The caged, wingless bird discovers new ways to [...]
Jessica Maybury – ‘I didn’t choose this life’
The woman in the foetal position suggests she is uncomfortable or in pain. The background is the background of her life; the way she must live due to [...]
Anna T McLeod – In Memory
Hands on face, protecting the self from the world, blocking out the world, looking inward. This piece was made during my recovery from post-natal dep [...]
Mallery Henderson – “Pain is no evil unless it conquers us”
Pain comes in many forms and we all need to be supported and cared for in the same way no matter how we suffer.
Sue Gross – I must make a woolly jumper for my daughter
Drawing of woolly jumper, edged with barbed wire. It is deliberately rough and scratchy, although it depicts something that is meant to be soft and be [...]
PixieMoonArts – Pain
This is a collection of prose – photography, and an abstract painting I did a few years back.
That painting, depicted me, an old photo of myself [...]
James Bennett – Beneath
A piece I shot from pain awareness dr sketchy this week. Normally I don't touch my pics (I have an uber cheap-ass camera) up but I liked this one and [...]
June Sparkle – LUCKY 2010
THIS WORK is a piece close to my HOOD!
It is a recycled collaborative artwork. It also doubles as an evolving community learning piece.
THE CANVAS [...]
Morticia Lee – Corseting Coffin Back Pack
The representation of my genuine leather coffin back pack is that the coffin resembles how some times the pain can make ya feel like death at times. T [...]
Clare Caldwell – ‘Broken Wings’
Feeling of impotence and rage as the losses impede on my life so relentlessly. Losses become physical, spiritual, ideological, intellectual and the em [...]
Kathryn McBeath – Electricity
This is the headache that confiscates all thought other than the awareness of pain; that stops time.
I wrote this about post-neurosurgery head [...]
Ryan van Heerden – Pain Flower
Artist: Ryan van Heerden Title of Piece: Pain Flower About the Piece: Inspired by sensations.. both felt and described About the Artist: Artistically [...]
Bex Thompson – Appearances Can Be Decieving
Artist: Bex Thompson Title of Piece: Appearances can be decieving About the Piece: This is a photo of me, taken during one of my first ever photo sho [...]
Andrew Dempster – Confession of Pain
My Art investigation has been into Digital Photographics as a Method of Confessing Unseen Pain
Claudia Recorean
Influenced by sacred Buddhist paintings and shamanistic experience, where gods tear bodies apart for transformation and rebirth
Grae Burton – Exit Wound
......the process of investigating emotional pain and using it in artistic practice and overcoming adversity to realise your dreams
Andrew Dempster – Layers of Pain
...what happens when the individual becomes alienated from how they perceive themselves and ‘self’ becomes perceived as ‘other’?
Saani McEvoy – Prozac Babe
I feel this painting evokes the sense of powerlessness and thwarted potential often felt by people living with chronic pain
Clovis McEvoy – Collision
Artist: Clovis McEvoy Name of Piece: Collision About the Piece: This painting is dedicated to the memory of Tim Hooker-snell, a young man who took his [...]
Christine Rule – A Magic Moment
The richness of this moment still lives on/A breath of peace, a precious moment shared.
Kat McBeath – unnamed
Artist: Kat McBeath Title of Piece: Unnamed About the Piece: In order to explain this image to you, I would have to able to read my own subconscious. [...]
Brett Armstrong – No Rest for Audrey
Artist: Brett Armstrong Title of Piece: No Rest for Audrey About the Piece: This is Audrey. She was a resident of a rest home I worked at (as an ac [...]
Labareda – Scratched Out
i am not sure of all i am saying, something of the perceptual disconnect that comes with pain
Jo of Pixie Moon – Fly
Fly is about having broken wings, but having the strength to go on, no matter what.
Warwick
I wanted to try and illustrate that just because you can’t see anything on the outside doesn’t mean you’re not suffering.
Jo of PixieMoon
It’s a hard slog, to even accept you have to live with pain, but as everyone falls down, its how we stand up that matters most.
