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    Radical acts of care collage. A collage artwork consisting of various objects and people imposed onto a light blue background amidst yellow, red, green, pink, purple and blue quadrilateral shapes; a young white woman side on in a wheelchair, a grey armless statue, a plate with broken egg shells on, a small dog, a hand in a glass jar, orange roses in a vase, two penguins, shards of glass, a brown envelope, a tall building, a lampost and a young mixed race man upside down holding flowers. In the mirror in is struck through blue text which reads; "radical acts of care".

    Radical Acts of Care, a virtual exhibition

    A digital collage representing neurological pain. The collage is made of a painting of a brain with three birds each pecking at the brain. There is a red bird on the top left, a bright blue bird in the middle at the bottom and a grey-blue bird on the top right.
    A digital collage photo by Charlie Fitz. There is a vintage sepia photograph in the background of doctors in light robes, head and face coverings. At the front and bottom of the image is a photo of Charlie's face in colour, with a straw hat on. Her head is attached to a black and white image of a nurse putting a facemask on a patient in a bed. In between her shoulder there is text, which says "it's all in your head".
    A square digital collage. The background is a colourful, sparkling space image, black background with pin prick glitter dots amongst those are slightly larger glowing red and blue orbs. There is a back rhombus or diamond shape. At the centre is a drawing of a fig half in muted tones. The fig looks like a vulva. The words "I am sorry" are in line with the fig, which sits between the "am" and "sorry".
    A square digital collage. The background is a colourful, sparkling space image, black background with pin prick glitter dots amongst those are slightly larger glowing red and blue orbs. There is a back rhombus or diamond shape. At the centre is a drawing of a fig half in muted tones. The fig looks like a vulva. The words "I am sorry" are in line with the fig, which sits between the "am" and "sorry".
    A digital collage. The background is a painted underwater sea scene with green and brown muted tones. There are large rocks either side and multiple fish in the scene. To the left is a cut out of a drawn skeleton on one of the rocks turned away with its head in it's hands. To the right on the other rock is a cut out of a drawing of a woman in period clothing on her knees looking mournful. Over the top of the images are collage cut out letters all in different colours and fonts, reading 'I am so tired of fighting to be believed.'
    A landscape photograph of Oscar, a young mixed raced man with short shaved dark hair, wearing a black and white striped t-shirt and a dark blue jean shirt lies with his eyes closed in thick green grass surrounded by wildflowers. His eyes are closed, his lies diagonally across the frame, cut off at the torso. Over the image yellow italicized text, with a struck through with a yellow line reads "promise to be tender."
    Centre frame is the bottom of Charlie, a white womxn in her late 20s. In frame are their h
    An outline self-portrait drawing of Charlie a white women with brown hair tied back. Wearing knee braces and using a walking stick. Above the line drawing in blue painted text it reads 'proud disabled woman'. Behind the outline drawing there are block coloured shapes. At the top is a green square, below that and to the left is a light blue rectangle, below that a bright blue circle, below that a yellow triangle and below that and to the left a dark purple pentagon.
    Art piece showing an abstract hospital room. In the centre is a yellow single hospital bed, in front of which is a maroon coloured portable bed table on wheels. Above the bed is a dark orange television attached to a large wall arm, whilst to the left-hand side of the bed is a green chair with a high back. On the right-hand side of the art work is a dark teal sink and medical rubbish bin seen beyond an open partition curtain which is pink and blue.
    A digital collage artwork: layered on top of a rotated film photograph of a verdant maze floats the figure of a young white woman on the right hand side of the frame. She is wearing a multi colored bathing suit consisting of yellow, orange, green and black patterns. Cutting across her body are the strikethrough lines from text which reads: 'doctor said "it's all in her head"/ doctor said "she's better off dead".'
    A rectangle digital collage. The background picture is a photo taken in space mostly black with space pin prick stars and planets. Down the centre of the image is a yellow cloudlike structure like the gases that surround a black hole. At the centre of it is a moon misshapen into an oval, like an egg. Either side of the egg moon are drawn cut outs of fingers pointing towards it. The words "make space for your desire" in black font are written from top to bottom over the cloud. The moon between the words "your" and "desire."
    A digital collage combining three MRI scans of the head and neck, an overlay of see throug
    A red semi-abstract watercolour painting in red of the figure of a woman holding an IV pole. To the left of the red painting image are red paint marks signifying a hallway.
    description: 3 figures in dark green surgical costumes. They are bending over, one with a scalpel in hand. Only the person in the middle has a face, the other 2 faces are integrated into the background – a dark mauvish space with small dots. A circle hangs like a light on the operating table but it has a white marble sheen with blood colour streaks. The person in the middle has the only face, bespectacled with a mask.
    The image is a digital collage of 6 of the same black and white image of Oscar, a mixed race man in his twenties with short dyed blonde hair. He is wearing a dark turtle neck and squares of white paper over his eyes. The identical images overlap and are placed three alongside each other and three more in a row behind. The background is white.
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