Seraphim’s  —

I went into this project convinced I knew it and I knew myself. I was wrong. This collection taught me a lot about myself. Painting these images connected me to my feelings about how I see myself in society. How I felt growing up, always being completly different to everyone to the point I always felt alien, scared and small as an individual. Although the paintings you witness are “dark”, it has been an outlet that has been very healing to me. Emotions are not always pretty, but it’s a way I can show you my raw soul without explanation.

“Inside silence”

Digital painting

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Digital painting

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Oil pastels on paper

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Oil pastels on paper

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Oil paint and oil pastels on canvas

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Oil pastels on paper

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11.7 x 16.5in oil on paper

Recognising the experience of debilitating menstrual pain going on since the age of 12. Whilst I am mostly okay now, I still have my bad times and get really sick around that the time of the month. The pain being so severe I cannot get out of bed and I will throw up anything I eat. This experience is shared across a lot of afab people. What’s supposed to be considered “normal” becomes something genuinely dreaded because I don’t know If I am going to be able to function this time or not. The only blood not born from violence, yet it’s still treated like it’s unnatural and “gross”.

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Oil pastels on paper

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Oil pastels on paper

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Oil pastels on paper

Separation from self  —

“Depression isn’t glamorous”

Potentially a body work of work I intend to expand on. These paintings relate back to my life-long and ongoing struggles with mental illness, trauma and disconnection from self. Particularly representing a period in my life where I was going through one of my worst depressive episodes. Mentally illness is not pretty. I don’t intend to glamourise it rather reveal how ugly and disgusting and sad it is.

“I don’t recognise myself”

Oils on canvas

“The silence in solitude”

Oils on canvas

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Oil on canvas

About

Based in the Sunshine Coast, QLD, Eddie west is mainly self taught from childhood. Eddie has studied at TAFE, Qld, completing a diploma in visual arts and then exhibiting a number of works from their series “A Walk through Grief” . Preferably working in oil paints, Eddie also experiments with mixed media and digital art making. Eddie’s practice involves connection to self and healing through painting angels and gruesome images involving themselves as the subject, also dabbling in shedding light on important political matters, such as women’s rights and violence against women and other afab people along with many other issues. Eddie has previously studied at Griffith university, college of art and design for a short time as well as the university of Canberra at TAFE, QLD though dropping out due to life and personal problems. They aspire to go back to art school and complete a bachelor in visual arts and eventually emerge themselves as a known artist within the Sunshine Coast.

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