Arts

Many people living with ME and their carers find a creative outlet via the arts to express their thoughts and feelings.

"I believe art can move people to do or be something positive and to kindle their own innate healing abilities that mainstream ideas and medicine may not be able to do illicit. Art can also express the linguistically inexpressible…" Gwen Duda

Subject Matters
How the disease effects or has effected an individual - physically/emotionally/spiritually/mentally.

Regret at or mourning for the loss of one's existence pre-ME.

Hopes for one's future.

Commentary on societal, cultural or political themes pertinent to ME.

Art Forms
Cartoon

Film

Installation

Movie

Music

Novel

Painting

Performance

Photography

Poetry

Song

Television

Video

Artists with ME
Ali Smith (UK)

Blake Edwards (US)

Cher (US)

Chris Willsher (UK)

David Puttnam (UK)

Dean Brantley Taylor (US)

Emma Blackery (UK)

Erin B. Fromkes (US)

Flea aka Michael Balzary (Australia/US)

Gwen Duda (Canada)

Heather M. Clark (Canada)

John Rutter (UK)

Jonathan Ansell (UK)

Keith Jarrett (US)

Laura Hillenbrand (US)

Lucy Saxon (UK)

Martin Lev (UK)

Michael Crawford (UK)

Neil John Codling (UK)

Oriah Mountain Dreamer (Canada)

Pamela Weston (UK)

Randy Newman (US)

Stacy Hart k/a Mama Chill (UK)

Steve Craig (UK)

Stevie Nicks (US)

Stuart Murdoch

Susan Harris (US)

Artworks Pertinent to ME
"A Song of Shadows" (2015) (novel) by John Connolly

"A Sudden Illness" (2003) (essay) by Laura Hillenbrand

"Bedding Out" (2016) (installation/performance) by Liz Crow

"CFS (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome)ME Awareness Song" (2016) (song) by Nicola Elias

"Collage" (2014) (song) by Nigel Harpur

"I Remember Me" (2000) (film/movie) by Kim A. Snyder

"Nobody's Empire", song written by Stuart Murdoch of Belle and Sebastian

"Rise Above Chronic Fatigue" (2010) (song) by Dean [Brantley Taylor] and Friends

"The Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Follies: Cartoons about an epidemic of lies" (2014)(cartoon) by Julian Lake

"The Golden Girls: Sick and Tired" Parts I & II (1989) (television)

"The Melody at Night, With You" (1999) (music) by Keith Jarrett

"Voices from the Shadows" (2011) (film/movie) by Josh Biggs & Natalie Bolton  and starring Adam Fuller

Art Events
"M.E. AGAIN" (2015-2016)