@geezygee.dageeza
My art for wellbeing persona is centred on play, experimentation, and emotional healing through painting. This body of work includes the Care Home Series, created while working as a carer, which celebrates the individuality and dignity of people with learning disabilities. Other paintings, often seen behind misted mirrors and rippled glass, explore impermanence and fragmentation. Other more surreal works splice Symbols and Icons together forming new narratives and meaning.
In 2012 I had a solo exhibition at The Bethlem Gallery called ‘There Is Good In Us’. It challenged the negative portrayal of mental illness in the media showing portraits of people who had helped me in my recovery.
I have since been the cover artist for the monthly issues of the Lancet Psychiatry for 2015 and was selected for Alternative Visions in 2018 a touring exhibition of outsider art put on by arts charity OutsideIn and Arts & Health South West.
Works in this vein are in the Bethlem Museum Of The Mind, Wellcome Collection and Bristol Museum.
Fragmented Portraits
Care Home Series
Symbolic Paintings
This is a link to my work held at Bethlem Museum of the Mind.