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Exhibition

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PAST EVENTS - ART EXHIBITION

September 2024

The poster for "Shattered" features Tina's powerful painting, "A Moment," symbolizing her experience of living life second by second after enduring seven surgeries. The documentary reveals how the workers' compensation system compounds injuries, making it emotionally and mentally impossible for the women to think beyond the present. 


Tina uses art as therapy. Tina does not sell her art. It is for therapy only. When we saw her beautiful painting we asked could we use it for the film's poster. Tina has kindly loaned it us and afterwards it will be returned to her. It is a hobby that she uses to try and Self Care. She rarely ventures outside of her home except for medical appointments and her art gives her great comfort, helping her to heal.  She discovered it during A Paint and Sip outing a friend insisted she attend during COVID. 'I had no idea I could draw, let alone with only one hand as I can't even use the other.' I guess art as therapy finds a way.' 


No longer able to use her left hand, Tina paints in moments and often it takes days to complete a single task. She moves around her home to paint, stopping and starting to ease the pain. Tina always has the lovely ritual of wearing lipstick to paint. She says, 'I feel like a woman again when I do that. This whole experience of ending up with such an extreme disability after simply falling over at work has left me shattered but more so how the system has treated me.'

The women in "Shattered" share their experiences of  how trauma is also re-triggered years later by dismissive and thoughtless email correspondence from case managers and officials. These moments leave them frozen in time, unable to function, with some avoiding correspondence altogether and others losing days in a daze. The common theme among injured workers is the harmful impact of impersonal and inconsiderate communications. Sounds so simple, doesn't it? Trauma on top of trauma is rarely simple and the Workers' Compensation Scheme must work much harder to holistically embed healing if they truly want people to heal and return to work.

Note: Tina has generously loaned us this beautiful piece of art to use for Shattered. 

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 The Song - Amazing Grace

"Amazing Grace," one of the world's most performed hymns with an estimated 10 million annual performances, originated in 1773 in the small English town of Olney. Written by John Newton, a former slave trader turned minister who experienced a spiritual awakening after nearly dying in a shipwreck, the hymn was initially penned for a New Year's service at the Church of St. Peter and St. Paul. The song's universal themes of redemption and transformation, captured in lyrics like "I was lost and now I'm found," have made it a beloved piece across cultures, particularly at funerals.

 

In the context of the documentary "Shattered," the hymn takes on additional significance as performed by Ballina Gee, an award-winning singer and social justice advocate. The hymn's themes of hope and deliverance are used to parallel the struggles of injured workers within compensation systems, with Gee herself being a survivor voice of this cruel system and one of the five women featured in Shattered, who are all working to reform legal frameworks and advocating for better treatment of injured workers in the system.

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"Amazing Grace
How sweet the sound,
That saved a wretch like me!
I once was lost,
But now am found;
Was blind, but now I see."

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