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Breaking the Silence on Domestic Violence

Group Exhibition organized by Breaking the Silence System

Breaking the Silence on Domestic Violence includes art by apprentice and professional, male person and female, young and old artists. Some make a living creating art. Some take rarely created an artwork previously. All have been inspired to create, to describe attention, to challenge, to reveal, to stand in solidarity, to cry out, to heal, to break the silence.

Descriptions of Fine art:

Images of artworks follow the descriptions. Match the artwork and clarification past the number earlier the artist's name.

1 Bister Rae Marie Mayer Avem Rae: Phoenix Rise
This painting denotes the domestic abuse that the creative person has gone through. As she falls into the ash pile of photographs, a camera, thrown piece of furniture, and a mattress, her hands shrivel to dust. Once she finally decides to let go and give up, Christ's power on the cross rebirths her with His flaming Holy Spirit. Despite all that she has gone through and has left behind in the ash, a new power-filled woman rises once more to bring glory to the King of Kings.

2 Angela Beer Just Be (photo of piece in progress and photo of completed piece)
The experience of an unrelenting grief and sadness that speaks to you and says, "I don't want to exist lamentable anymore. I don't want to be tired anymore. I don't want to be useless, ugly, angry, forgetful, poor, likewise happy, likewise weird, smart, pretty or alive." All the lies and half-truths it tells united states of america; I need to remember sometimes...to only Exist. The rest will wait after itself.

three Angela Beer Built by Touch
This piece is somewhat of a cocky-portrait without that being the original intent. An answer to my question, tin I turn my hurting into art? This is the catastrophe (in an platonic world) of a life congenital upon the demented hands of others, turned into something beautiful and elegant.

4 Angela Beer Untitled
A representation of the abused in an feel that is a never ending cycle, hoping that the next time will be better but the bear witness is the same. The projector portrays the experience that everyone else can run across but the driveling doesn't always encounter it the mode others do and cannot come across a mode out.

The exit sign is an indication of the amount of support and assist available. The abused is unable to notice their fashion out of the situation regardless of the acknowledgement of available support in which I've used the absence of a door, and a stationary table, to portray that thought.

v Briony Haig Take Back the Night
Take Dorsum the Night is part of a series of protest paintings that I am working on, of protests that I or my family have attended. The Take back the night marches are about women reclaiming their right to walk safely in the night. I believe that as a society we need to finish telling women what they shouldn't do to stay safe, and start teaching men that they cannot abuse their force to hurt women.

six Briony Haig Respect your Mother
Respect your Mother is some other slice in my protestation series. Respect your Female parent is nominally about respecting Mother Earth but I believe treating Mother Earth with respect and treating women with respect are all of a slice.

vii Charlie Johnston After the Storm

8 Charlie Johnston Dreamweaver

9 Sarah Welsh Johnston Contemplation

10 Sarah Welsh Johnston "...and they volition acquit her"

11 Christine Marek Dorsum To You

12 Christine Marek Web And Ties

13 Durdana Islam Liberty
This slice represents all the women that fought their way through the abuse and finally were able to stand up on her ain two feet. The open arms are a symbolism for the hope in the time to come, the woman is standing in front of the sun to show that the light at the end of the tunnel is finally visible. The color palette is various hues of orange every bit the color is associated with happiness and decision.

xiv Durdana Islam Breaking Barriers
This piece is virtually a mom ending the wheel or abuse, breaking a multitude of barriers which are represented by the colorful hands, to ultimately protect her kids. The kids are in the condom with their mom, she covers them from the world. The mom and kids are happy considering they are safe with each other.

15 Eli Randa-Iskat Behind the Drape
Sending the message that domestic violence affects ALL walks of life, ALL ethnicities, ALL socio-economic backgrounds and is hidden behind a curtain of fear, shame and silence. With didactics and support the curtain can be torn away.

16 Eli Randa-Iskat Silence Rent
Domestic violence is behind a façade of calm and silence due to fear and shame. Eventually silence and lives are torn apart.

17 Elizabeth Crozier TRANSITION
"TRANSITION" depicts a image shift from a shadowed by moving frontwards to a bright futurity.  The dazzler and light blooms and becomes the new reality.

18 Eveline Mangin Mauws Dolls
Being a woman, I sometimes feel exposed and defenceless when I am threatened with violence. Sexual comments and touches at piece of work or in social situations brand me very uncomfortable. These photographs are part of a 2-twelvemonth project using self-portraits and dolls to address control of women through violence and coercion. I desire the fearfulness to stop. I want to experience safe!

nineteen Eveline Mangin Mauws Self-portraits (34)

twenty Faye Mount Let OUR CHILDREN Flower
This piece calls to mind the happiness and curiosity of children at play.  Children have a right to be able to abound, similar a bloom, and BLOOM!

In my educational activity, for over thirty years, I have been entranced by the evolution and engagement of immature minds. No matter the cultural background, socio-economic status, or talent; they all have so much to give to our earth. They are the future.

21 Faye Mount Lost Girls
This painting is a tribute to the lost and missing girls and women. It is besides a metaphor in which nosotros search for the lost girls who take been abused and killed, while losing sight of the need for Action!

We need funded educational resource and intervention strategies to back up and protect women and children. We demand consequences for the perpetrators that don't punish the victims.

ME Likewise is not plenty.

22 Genevie Henderson Broken
"Use the darkness of your past to propel you to a brighter future." ― Donata Joseph

Violence kills -- bodies, minds, spirits. It breaks families, generations, communities. It destroys life cycles, dreams, hopes, futures. Its path of destruction is pervasive, enduring and crushing.

Violence, corruption and bullying manifests itself in secret places, hidden from the world -- feeding upon itself, justifying its cruelty and brutality, emboldened in its cowardice and shame. Information technology waits to be revealed, disclosed. The weight of information technology must be cleaved.

23 Genevie Henderson SECRETS
Thousand shalt not be a victim, thou shalt not exist a perpetrator, but, above all, thou shalt not exist a bystander." ― Yehuda Bauer

We all live with secrets, some small and inconsequential, others bothersome, and some then traumatic, we dare not speak. It takes courage from many to break the silence of violence. Its design is complicated, pervasive, and horrifying. Dare we reveal? Dare we not?

24 Ildiko Nova Pearl
Unfortunately, in that location are high number of abusive relationships. Each instance and story is unique, lamentable or tragic. At that place are certain characteristics and warning signs of abuse, such every bit decision-making by the partner, jealousy, blames, humiliation and other efforts to isolate the victim from social connections. Bad behaviour tin can turn to open up aggression, such as yelling, forceful actions and causing physical harm. The victim ofttimes has no resource to leave, due to lack of fiscal independence or disability to proficient decision making. In some societies women are more than oppressed than elsewhere, and so the social norm or the incorrect thought of patriarchy also make information technology more hard to escape.

These two pieces represents dissimilar aspects of abusive relationships. Corner is showing violence, physical impairment and its repetitive nature.

Pearl is a symbolic expression of all the losses acquired by these unfortunate situations. Equally a broken necklace, the beads are falling apart and some of them cannot be reached. Ane's cocky worth, self-conviction is all lost. Hopelessness, shame and defoliation are common problems and they tin further develop to depression, anxiety and PTSD.

Public awareness is very important, club needs to learn almost domestic abuse and victims need all possible support and the social network to have courage to interruption through and leave.

25 Ildiko Nova Corner

26 Jane Gateson Can't Come across For Looking
The first thing I did when I began this slice of art was to write boldly in pencil two questions: "What is unnamed that needs to be named? What is named that needs to exist unnamed?" Yous tin can see a flake of this writing in the upper right hand corner.

For things to exist named, they must kickoff be seen.

Domestic violence and abuse are often ignored, hidden, excused and unnamed. Sometimes they are so well hidden they remain unseen. Other times they're right in front of usa and still remain unseen.

27 Jane Gateson The Black Dog
A member of the family. In the beginning, such a beautiful puppy. So affectionate and then much fun. A faithful presence.

Then, the occasional growl.

Bites when annoyed. Only a few stitches required this last time. Notwithstanding a constant presence. E'er hovering close by. Always watching. Those blue optics.

28 Julia (Juls) Rempel The Manus of Christ
This piece depicts the sorrowful irony of the times in history when the Church of Christ has participated in and/or supported corruption.  Our own national history of the abuse of Indigenous peoples readily comes to heed. Shown here is a young woman on the "cross of the church building", just it could have easily been someone of a different age or gender.  The blue represents the water that flows through our common humanity.  When given this slice, what especially touched the artist, notwithstanding, was the vision of Christ fifty-fifty in his crucifixion, straining, though it crusade added pain to himself, to achieve out his paw to comfort those that were beingness harmed.

29 Julia (Juls) Rempel The Cross of Christ, a cross of the church building
The church has a checky history when it comes to abuse, including against Indigenous peoples. This piece specifically depicts the history of some churches to "crucify" women in the proper noun of THE Adept. This is non meant to equate the experience of woman on the cross with that of Christ'due south - the piece is simply a express metaphor. What struck the artist when she was given this piece, was that even in his crucifixion, THE GOOD - that is Christ - was straining with added hurting to himself, to comfort those that were existence harmed.

30 Karen Moffatt Double Vision
One adult female experiences beauty in the forest. A woman who has experienced corruption from an intimate partner sees and feels fear in the woods. Hopefully, with support from friends and family and Counselling Services, she will once over again be able to see and experience beauty in the forest on her healing journey.

31 Karen Robb My Blood Ran Common cold
This is the first slice in my series that deals with violence confronting women called "It Becomes Us".

Each painting reflects a different woman'south individual and unique story. These stories are then translated onto life sized canvases. They are visual realizations of their own feelings, and raw emotional experiences with this horrible issue. All subjects remain unidentifiable in order to highlight the universal commonality associated with violence against women.

32 Kathleen Shellrude Messenger

33 Kathleen Shellrude Dearest Is the Cure

34 Ken Hildebrand Kissed by a Fist
Mysterious words inked on your arm / When happier times were here
Mysterious to u.s.a....merely with a meaning / That all can empathize
The most beautiful pregnant / Spoken or written
A meaning we all want to say / A pregnant we all want to hear
Your fist kissed my lip...HARD! / Just split my lip, only it shattered my heart
Love yesterday...anger today / In one case a helping hand, now a hardened fist
An angry fist, a mean fist / Love has turned to detest
Your fist kissed my lip...HARD! / Just split up my lip, simply it shattered my heart
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35 Ken Hildebrand Words...
Aroused words / Cruel words / Weaponized words
All spoken to beat me down / Ugly... / Lazy... / Stupid...
Some words so vile, I cannot say them here / Call me these things
In a language I don't know / And the effect on me / Is nothing
Say them to me / In my female parent tongue
And the event on me / Is like bullets piercing my heart
Words used to punish / And to kill my spirit
Words to imprison me / In a world without promise
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36 Kirsten Schroeder Greyness Matter
"One in vii women has been injured by an intimate partner. Among women experiencing domestic violence, a handful of inquiry teams across the U.S. take now documented alarming rates of head injuries, with studies suggesting that every bit many every bit 90 percent of women seeking emergency or shelter services for domestic violence report have had them."  https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/voices/the-invisible-victims-of-traumatic-brain-injury/

37 Kirsten Schroeder Complicit No More
So many women were physically or sexually driveling growing up. They were expected to put a good face on everything and not talk about it. Powerless, they tried to decorate their lives with beauty, adding more and more than lace to cover upward the bruises. Just these are soulful, artistic, colourful women, artists in their own correct. They saved their pieces of beauty and reconfigured them into something new and strong and transformed. The last vessel is the breakthrough, symbolized past the colour turquoise and a shattered vagina. We are complicit no more, and nosotros sayno more.

38 Lori Ferguson IDENTITY Crunch
This painting speaks most how experiencing domestic violence can go out y'all vulnerable, exposed and unprotected, even in your own habitation. It is a statement about how over fourth dimension this kind of trauma erodes your sense of self and leaves you lot unsure well-nigh your own identity and place in the world. This piece is substantially a self-portrait and has been instrumental in my ain healing process as a survivor.

39 Lori Ferguson Behind THE CURTAIN
The raw emotion in this slice speaks both of the fear experienced when domestic violence is present in the domicile, every bit well every bit the shame and loneliness felt when that trauma is carried out behind closed doors.

xl Loricia Pacholko-Matheson Injuria

41 Loricia Pacholko-Matheson "You lot Don't Wait Like Yourself"

42 Lynda Toews Before Grace
A lot of the violence began at the dinner table. The back wallpaper is a collage of photos of when the four of us children were younger and times were a bit happier. I remember the portrait of Jesus on the wall, and I inserted the poem about children learning what they live on the other wall. My mother was e'er mad at my father for the way he treated u.s.a.. He would scan his gaze around the dinner table to make certain all our eyes were closed earlier grace. Then if my blood brother, sitting beside him wasn't bending over his plate, he'd get hit because he could drop nutrient on the flooring. So, when he would bend over his plate, he'd get hit for perhaps getting hair in his nutrient. . . a no-win situation constantly. My closest sister and I are the foreground silhouettes.

43 Lynda Toews Endless Bicycle
This is likewise a family around a "table", simply the table is too a swirling endless bicycle. Now my brother'southward confront exists in the table with my dad'south hand swirling it around, and my mother clawing at information technology from the top trying to stop it. Through the hole in the middle is the side by side generation (nephews) looking on. I called it an countless cycle because now my brother is an addict in the worst part of Vancouver, and the rest of us struggle in various ways. My closest sister and I are together with our backs to the viewer, faceless and powerless again. My parents and one of these nephews take since passed away, and we struggle to be a family.

44 Manny Martins-Karman The Loud and the Quiet #1
The Loud - shouting, screaming through the paper thin walls. Maybe someone will hear and come to end information technology. But survive.
The Serenity - don't breathe, maybe I won't provoke him. Make no sound, make no movements. It volition be over soon. Just survive.

The Loud - audio of flesh hitting the floor. Mayhap it was an accident. Go dorsum to slumber, it will exist over in the morning. Just survive.
The Repose - dare non speak for fearfulness of setting off something I won't be able to control. Merely brand it through some other day. Just survive.

The Loud - had enough! Going to go out - get in the car. Quick Mommy lets get. Nowhere to run. Endeavor over again another solar day. Just survive.
The Quiet - silently programme your escape. Observe help, tell someone. Shouldn't be long now. Just survive.

45 Manny Martins-Karman The Loud and the Quiet #iii

46 Michayla Carlson Absence
The piece portrays how even when individuals are surrounded past darkness the low-cal inside u.s. is stronger.

47 Michayla Carlson Inside
The image is a depiction of the confliction individuals have in reporting domestic corruption.

48 Nancy Marie Penny "STOP" the barbs of Abuse

49 Nancy Marie Penny Corruption
For this painting, Nancy Marie has drawn on the pain from her own past.

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