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[1]
Subject Matters[edit | edit source]
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[edit | edit source]
Cartoon - Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Follies Cartoons Book
Film & movie - Voices from the Shadows film
Installation - Bedding Out exhibit
Music
Novel
Performance [3]
Poetry [6]
Song [7]
Television
Video [8]
Artists with ME[edit | edit source]
Ali Smith (UK) - (Interview) (Article)
Blake Edwards (US) - (Article) (Film)
Cher (US) - (Wikipedia) (Article)
Chris Willsher (UK) - [9] [10]
Dean Brantley Taylor (US)[13][14][15]
Erin B. Fromkes (US)[18][19][20]
Flea aka Michael Balzary (Australia/US)[21][22]
Heather M. Clark (Canada)[25][26][27]
Jonathan Ansell (UK)
Keith Jarrett (US)[31][32][33]
Laura Hillenbrand (US)[34][35][36]
Lucy Saxon (UK)[37][38]
Neil John Codling (UK)[44][45]
Oriah Mountain Dreamer (Canada)
Pamela Weston (UK)[46][47][48]
Randy Newman (US)[49]
Stacy Hart k/a Mama Chill (UK)[50]
Stevie Nicks (US)[53][54]
Susan Harris (US)[55][56]
Artworks Pertinent to ME[edit | edit source]
"A Song of Shadows" (2015) (novel)[57] by John Connolly[58]
"A Sudden Illness" (2003) (essay)[59] by Laura Hillenbrand[60]
"Bedding Out" (2016) (installation/performance)[61][62] by Liz Crow[63]
"CFS (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome)ME Awareness Song" (2016) (song) [64] by Nicola Elias
"Collage" (2014) (song)[65] by Nigel Harpur[66]
"I Remember Me" (2000) (film/movie)[67][68] by Kim A. Snyder
"Nobody's Empire", song written by Stuart Murdoch of Belle and Sebastian
"Rise Above Chronic Fatigue" (2010) (song)[69] by Dean [Brantley Taylor] and Friends
"The Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Follies: Cartoons about an epidemic of lies" (2014)(cartoon)[70] by Julian Lake
"The Golden Girls: Sick and Tired" Parts I & II (1989) (television)[71][72][73]
"The Melody at Night, With You" (1999) (music)[74] by Keith Jarrett[75]
"Voices from the Shadows" (2011) (film/movie)[76][77] by Josh Biggs [78] & Natalie Bolton [79] and starring Adam Fuller [80]
Art Events[edit | edit source]
"M.E. AGAIN" (2015-2016)[81]
