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'Wall' Acrylic on canvas 2017
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Uncle Steve, Acrylic on canvas 2018
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Jay wire
Finn
Emily
On the spot
Runaways
Jade
Magenta
Scarlet
Violet
Steve Study 1
Steve study 2
Mask
Jay bird
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Hope, Acrylic on canvas
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Women of the earth
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Dancing Pachamamas
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Peter, Acrylic on canvas 2016
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AU Virgin
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Selection of work from The Rainbow Myth Exhibition Spring/Summer 2018 World Autism Awareness Week 26thMarch-2ndApril 2018
An exhibition of work from Deborah representing an emotional exploration of her relationship with her son who has autism.  

 Autistic children and adults often experience anxiety and depression as they try to fit into the world around them. Sensory overload, environmental sensitivity, social anxiety and communication difficulties are all a daily occurrence. These difficulties can trigger stress and depression, even psychosis. Coping mechanisms and comfort behaviours can be developed with safeness and security found in routine and predictability.
With long waiting lists and financial cuts in education and the health service, parents end up being advocates for their child’s care, treatment and wellbeing. 
 There is still a lot of medical research to be done and so much for us to learn about Autism spectrum conditions. Each individual has different characteristics, different needs and different strengths.  
 
Autism is commonly known as a ‘hidden disability’ but there are strengths in all autistic children and adults, including those with complex learning and communication difficulties. Though many may think of autism as disabling, people on the autistic spectrum are just different, often mis-understood and fitting into a world designed for the neurotypical can make life challenging.
 

Edge
 (Acrylic on wood)

Protect unseen, unknown gene
Future brave, out numbered slave 
Bold pledge
Boys
(Acrylic on wood and paper)

Person child, fragile mild
Open eyes, memory advise
Smile toys
Birth
 (Acrylic on wood and paper)

Live baby, past key
Precious hope, sacrifice cope
Bond worth

Bubble
(Acrylic on canvas board)

Circuit brain, Journey strain
Observe distance, outside assistance
Insulate cuddle

Repeat (1)
(Acrylic and plaster on wood)

Frustration help, desperate yelp
Communication block, One-way knock
Response meet

A Mother’s day Lunch
(Acrylic on canvas)

Disguise power, tastes sour
Senses extreme, mothers dream
Foiled, scrunch

Wall
(Acrylic on canvas)

Focus eye, echo satisfy
Alive believe, control receive
Respond fall

Demon
(Acrylic on canvas)

Illusion scare, monster there
Lost shape, dark escape
Fear won

Float
(Acrylic on wood)

Benign space, solitary grace
Contentment deep, actor sleep
Duvet scapegoat

Wait 
(mixed media, ink on board)

Depend trust, sacrifice must
Rescue medicine, thin skin
Anxious state
Blast
(Acrylic and pumice on wood)

Hidden grief, volcano relief
Simmer submerged stress, Iceberg compressed
Clouds forecast



Form
(Acrylic on paper)

Child account, flesh amount
Box pick, assessor tick 
Paper worn

Pixel
(Acrylic on canvas)

Web jellyfish, sticky anguish
Electric slime, freeze time
Shrill squall
Hit
(Acrylic on canvas)

Game path, strategy bath
Calm achieve, reward receive
Healing admit

On record
(Acrylic on canvas)

Day exhaust, an inward cost
Expression complaint, stages faint
Outward poured
Round
(Acrylic on leather)

It, toy, hurt boy
Love bleed, bounce squeeze
Happiness found

Static fade
(Acrylic on wood)

Detuned fun, haunt apparition,
Focus recedes, noise speed
Transistor frayed
Membrane
(Acrylic on wood)

Stretch protect, limit abject
Itch connect, confined reject
Evolving pain

Tramline
(Acrylic on canvas board)

Order tracks, security hacks
Detached watch, puppet notch
Observe align

UV 
(Acrylic on canvas board)

Fuelled wired, hormone fired
Brother intense, loud offense
Released free

In
(Acrylic on wood)

Lost time, childhood flies
Sunlight shock, stinging eyes
Hiding twin



Blocks
(Acrylic and plaster on wood)

Temperature see, system pea
Touching red, object bread
Tingle shock

Veil
(Acrylic on muslin)

Attacked scratch, blameless child 
Hit run, guilty none
Protect fail
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