August 18th 2022

It is a while since I posted. I would like first of all to thank Fingal Arts for a bursary award last year and this year towards the development of the work ‘Between Worlds’. I am grateful for both the financial help but also the encouragement it provided when I might have given up

This exhibition has been an emotional journey for me. Starting off I thought it was to raise awareness around the distress brain injury or stroke can cause to families and homelife.
Our eldest son was knocked down by a car at ten years old. He was on life support for three days and in a coma for two weeks. Life as we knew it totally changed forever.
He recovered slowly and very well both socially and academically. We just muddled through it at the time. Each of us was affected differently and had a part in his recovery. There is no right or wrong way of dealing with the daily distress that goes with the slow healing from head injury
I thought we had managed alright but the diagnosis of his little boy with non-verbal autism at the start of Covid triggered for me the isolation, loneliness and sometimes overwhelming, paralyzing fear that accompanies medical expertise.
Working through this exhibition has compelled me to revisit and understand and know we couldn’t have done any better at the time. Working through trauma is an uncharted part of life. No one gets through it without support. We need to talk. We need to share.
We are all caretakers of each other.

I am giving a painting for raffle and dividing the money between Headway/Acquired Brain Injury Ireland and Non-Verbal Autism.

I am very grateful ‘Headway’ are going to open the exhibition for me.
These Organisitations provide such valuable day to day suport for families in trouble.

Exhibition Details
Copper House Gallery,
St Kevin’s Cottages,
Dublin 8
Opening 8th September 5.00pm to 9.00 pm
9th to 13th September 10.00 to 4.00 pm
Hope to see you there.
Liz