PROFILE: Julie Fearns-Pheasant
Julie is an artist and teacher who has been professionally exhibiting since 1987. Her current media is illustration and digital media but has worked in silk, paint, ceramics and printmaking.
She has a B.A in Fine Art, a Graduate Diploma in Education and is currently completing a Masters in Cross-Disciplinary Arts.
Julie has exhibited extensively and has had seven solo shows, mainly of prints and illustrations.
She has represented Australia in three International Abilympics, winning four gold medals and two silver.
Julie has a congenital left sided disability and had breast cancer in 2006. Having a disability has never been a block for her to create, if anything it has made her more determined.
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Artist: Julie Fearns-Pheasant
PROFILE: Kevin Gillam
Kevin Gillam: is a West Australian poet with two books of poems published, “Other Gravities” (2003) and “permitted to fall” (2007), both by Sunline Press. He has also had two chapbooks of poems published by Picaro Press, been a feature poet on ABC Poetica, and appeared at numerous poetry festivals around Australia. He has a forthcoming volume of poetry with Fremantle Press scheduled for 2011.
Profile: Judy Hogben
Judy Hogben is the Chief Executive Officer for The Centre for Cerebral Palsy.
The Centre for Cerebral Palsy provides a family-centred and person-centred service to over 1000 people with cerebral palsy and like disabilities and their families. The Centre helps people set goals and do their best to assist them to find ways to meet these goals. One of these ways is through assisting people express themselves through Art.
Since 1951, The Centre has forged an enviable reputation as one of the leading disability service providers in our state, with significant leadership also at a national level. Over time, The Centre’s ability to adapt in response to the changing needs of people with CP and like disabilities has ensured they remain at the forefront of service excellence.
The Centre strives to ensure inclusion of people with cerebral palsy and other disabilities in every facet of society. Their vision is for a community where all people freely exercise choice.
The Centre aims to achieve this by providing a range of quality services and promoting choice in order to address the unique needs of the people that they work with.
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