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I am originally from Italy, living in Melbourne since 1969. Grew up in a large family with a colourful mamma cook and a hippie-artist dad.
studies include:
B.A. Performance Studies - V.U.
Cert III in Visual Art - Melbourne Polytechnic
Cert IV in Visual Art - Melbourne Polytechnic
Cert IV disability studies - VU
I have run many workshops for people with disabilities including mental illness, supported by local government grants, for the community.
Projects I've created and run independently and for a range of disability organizations including MS Society, YMCA, Mambourin etc include:
Artful Healing (directed by me))
Amaroo arts program
Phoenix arts program
Ibis Performing Arts program
Ibis kids program
Free your Voice
Free your body
Singing from the Heart
Purple Harmony Choir
I am passionate about arts being accessible in all ways.
I am very grateful for this God-given gift to express myself. Art allows me to express the unexpressible.
Aurora DVM
I take active leadership by INSPIRATION to better my mental health and help others do the same through engaging in and sharing therapeutic and mindful art practices.
I like to dabble in a range of mediums and styles, including drawing, digital art, photography, painting, printmaking, etc. I am passionate about art that is inspired by intuition and that is empathic, prophetic and political.
My lived experience of mental health and chronic illness issues which form my disabilities fuels my need to engage creatively through the arts as a way to de-stress and give a language to all the struggles, challenges, triumps, thoughts, feelings and experiences in a nuturing and fulfilling way.
I enjoy attending online life drawing workshops, drawing portraits, pets - whatever inspires me. I particularly love working unconsciously drawing to music, sermons, stories, sounds in nature etc.
I enjoy improving on and discovering new techniques, collaborating, encouraging creativity for all.