RACHAEL ROMERO

Artists Statement
Art has always saved me. The point of departure for my work has been (and remains) my own experience, my own life - and by putting this material into a broader context - I confront stigma and injustice. Always choosing media that can be multiplied and widely disseminated, I am currently investigating how trauma--when examined through the creative process--can become the fuel of liberation.

LIFE STUDIES687by Rachael Romero 2012

 LIFE STUDIES: a new series revisiting the aftermath of trauma as read in the body vocabulary
22x30 watercolor on Rag paper, c Rachael Romero, 2012

Blood Sisters, from a series of mixed media drawings on rag paper by Rachael Romero. 2011, 22x28"

This image depicts two girls cut off from their origins trying to find sisterhood in the drudgery of forced labor in the Convent of the Good Shepherd, in South Australia, a MAGDALENE LAUNDRY .

The drawing is included in the current exhibit INSIDE: Life in children's homes and Institutions, at the National Museum Australia, Canbera, Australia
Nov16-April 2012.
In the Shadow of Eden was screened at the Museum on Nov 29, 2011

Inside film screening_01_Panorama Bkpge 26

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