Arts

Many ME-sufferers and their carers find a creative outlet via the arts to express their thoughts and feelings.

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

Video

Artists with ME:
Ali Smith (UK)

Blake Edwards (USA)

Cher (USA)

Chris Willsher (UK)

David Puttnam (UK)

Dean Brantley Taylor (USA)

Emma Blackery (UK)

Erin B. Fromkes (USA)

Gwen Duda (Canada)

Heather M. Clark (Canada)

John Rutter (UK)

Keith Jarrett (USA)

Laura Hillenbrand (USA)

Lucy Saxon (UK)

Martin Lev (UK)

Michael Balzary k/a Flea (Australia)

Michael Crawford (UK)

Neil John Codling (UK)

Pamela Weston (UK)

Randy Newman (USA)

Stacy Hart k/a Mama Chill (UK)

Steve Craig (UK)

Stevie Nicks (USA)

Susan Harris (USA)

Artworks Pertinent to ME-Sufferers:
"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

"Collage (2014) (song) by Nigel Harpur

"I Remember Me" (2000) (film/movie)

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

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

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

"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)