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Portrait of the artist's mother : dignity, creativity and disability

Place, Fiona, author

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Portrait of the Artist's Mother is a memoir and an examination of the politics of disability. Fiona Place describes the pressure from medical institutions to undergo screening during pregnancy and assumptions that a child with Trisomy 21 should not live, even though people with Down syndrome do live rich lives. Fiona's son, Fraser, has become an artist. His prize-winning paintings have been exhibited in galleries in Sydney and Canberra. How does a mother get from the grieving silence of the birthing room through the horrified comments of other mothers to the applause at gallery openings? This is a story of commitment to the idea that all people, including those who are 'less than perfect', have a right to be welcomed into this increasingly imperfect world.

• Publisher: Spinifex Press
• Subject: Place, Fiona. / Pollock, Fraser. / Parents of children with disabilities Australia Biography. / Down syndrome Patients Australia Biography. / Down syndrome patients as artists Australia. / Down Syndrome. / Child. / Parents.
• ISBN: 9781925581751, 1925581756

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
RJ506.D68 P53 2019	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE