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The portrait is broken down into three paintings to encourage the viewer to think in terms of ‘parts’: Webber’s body has all the same parts as a typical woman, but perhaps combined in different ways.

About Tanya Raabe-Webber

The Tanya series of portraits loom large in DAM IN VENICE, with an entire wall showing paintings of hers of the activist leaders of the disability arts and rights movements in her Who’s Who and other series, which features in the exhibition.

The work magnificently conveys the power and pride of the disabled activist leaders of the Disability Arts Movement in a series of some 20 portraits. Through her deceptively simple expressionist style, she champions the visibility of disabled activists, while also aiming to convey through form and structure their more earthly, lived experiences.  

Image credit, Andy Barker

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Banner image. A photo of a large wall of paintings in an exhibition space. Photographed on a slight angle, the paintings arranged in a line along the wall grow in size from left to right as they get come clother to the camera. Painted in vivid colours with block colour backgrounds, the paintings are portraits of various disabled activists.

1. This triptych is made up of three landscape canvases that are arranged vertically up the wall. Painted in vivid colours on a bright white canvas, is a self-portrait of the artist stood naked and smiling at the camera. Reds, blues, greens and yellows are used instead of a more natural palette; her short hair glowing green and yellow over dark square framed glasses. Split into across three canvases, the artist's body is cut up, separating above the knee, and again at the shoulders.