juliet chenery-robson. emilia’s kingdom 2 3 illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous...

Juliet Chenery-Robson

Emilia’s kingdom 2

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Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick.

Susan Sontag, Illness as Metaphor

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5Alienation

Unpredictable PatternsNorthern Gallery for Contemporary Art

MA Degree Show 2008 6

Unpredictable Patterns

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A Diagnosis of Exclusion Durham Art Gallery 2010 8

PhD Research Question:

Many psychiatrists currently refuse to accept the serious physical nature of

M.E. and state that it is “merely a faulty illness belief”, or “somatoform

disorder”. (June 14 2006 Invest in ME press release)

“The treatment (or lack of it) of ME sufferers in the UK is a national scandal.”

(Professor Malcolm Hooper, University of Sunderland)

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M.E. ResearchMRI Scanner, Newcastle General Hospital

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Lucy’s kingdom12

Amelia’s kingdom13

Ben and Ryan’s kingdom14

Trai’s kingdom

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Three Stages of Mimesis (an interpretation)

Mimesis 1: The realisation that meaning can be derived from sufferers experiences of living with M.E.

Mimesis 2: The creation of something representable with form (photographs) from raw experience, making it visible & understandable.

Mimesis 3: The outcome of the creation (photographs) being observed & interpreted via exhibition, publication or website.

Morgan’s kingdom 17

M.E. ResearchNorthumbria University 18

JEAN-MARTIN CHARCOT HUGH WELCH DIAMOND

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JO SPENCE ROSY MARTIN

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DEBORAH PADFIELD JOHN DARWELL

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M.E. ResearchTilt Tables, Royal Victoria Infirmary

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Skin fluorescence, Freeman Hospital

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GEMINI HOUSEPETERLEE

Open evening: 13th May

WARWICK HOUSENEWCASTLE

Open evening: 7th June

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Variability is the law of life and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.

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