Featured Works
Sophia Xeros-Constantinides, #4 (Chrysalis), 2009, 63.5 x 61cm, digital print on paper, 2012.0042
Sophie Xeros-Constantinides is a mother and clinician who explores perinatal mother-infant distress in both her artistic practice and clinical work through collage and photography. She critiques popular representations of motherhood through the repurposing of historical imagery.
Patricia Stewart, Beneath the Sea (Deeper and Deeper and Deeper), 1996, 131 x 70.5m, acrylic on masonite, 2013.0292
Patricia Stewart uses painting as a tool to record and process her negative feelings from emotional abuse and Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy. The Dax Centre aids in her goal to share her experience and strength through art.
Graeme Doyle, Untitled, 2017, 100.5 x 130.5cm, texta, ballpoint pen, crayon, and graphite pencil on paper, 2017.5023
Graeme Doyle was an artist, poet, musician and performer who experienced schizophrenia and bipolar disorder from the age of 18. He describes himself as a "grim survivor with extraordinary encourage."
Renee Sutton, Untitled, 1959, 33.5 x 42cm, gouache on paper, 2003.2977
Renee Sutton dutifully recorded her life through a collection of over 200 artworks in the Dax Collection. Paintings and drawings, alongside letters and cards to Dr Dax combine to allow for an intimate insight into her personal experiences of psychiatric hospitals, community art groups and personal practice.
Leslie Holding, Metro Man at Night, 2009, 59 x 42cm, acrylic on paper, 2013.0254
Leslie Holding is a self-described “abstract surrealist artist, fascinated by dreamscapes and imagery of rural and metropolitan areas”. His perspective is informed by his experiences being homeless and in psychiatric wards. Alongside representation, Holdings explores mathematics, physics and God in his belief systems and art.
Rosa Niran, Love No. 1, 2008, 56 x 39cm, pen and ink on paper, 2012.0427
Rosa Niran’s works explore both the physical and emotional experience of her journey with breast cancer. In this series “Love” delicate drawings showcase the crucial intimacy and support of her husband throughout this struggle.
Elizabeth Turnbull, The Ancestors, 1986, 52.5 x 42cm, gouache on paper, 2014.0019
Elizabeth Turnbull is a writer and artist fascinated with instinctive expression and involvement with ‘outsider’ art. She explores themes of spirituality, the feminine, and the inner calm and silences across her varied mediums of drawing, painting, mixed media, and writing.
Rena Hoffman, Vale of Tears, 2008, 38 x 56cm, collagraph on card, 2009.0038
Rena Hoffman has been creating works for over 25 years that have helped her with overwhelming feelings of emotional responsibility for other’s happiness. She now shares this tool in her art therapy practice which prioritises building positive relationships with the self.
James Dickson, Transport thing, Edition, 1981, 57.5 x 91cm, screenprint on paper (edition 78/100), 2003.3509
James Dickson’s art practice provided him a creative outlet after struggling with depression and addiction during his time in the Royal Australian Air Force. His experimentations in art helped him to calm his mind and better understand his own thoughts, like personal tarot cards.
Isabella Duncan, Sleeping on the Moon, 2000, 30 x 26.5cm, acrylic on canvas, 2011.0029
Isabella Duncan is a wife, mother, artist, and professional who has over 100 paintings donated into the Dax Centre Collection. These reflect the journey of healing throughout her life, and include recurring motifs of women, flowers, rope, children, and the moon.