Missy is a Mildura based visual artist and prolific painter, creating works that are bold, expressive and meaningful.
She is passionate, authentic and confronting in her work ,which often comments on social justice issues such as; equality, grief and loss and breaking mental health stigma. These entwine with her personal experiences of life as her work becomes a commentary of her story.
She has studied trauma and reparation in contemporary visual art with foundations in the study of loss, trauma theory and psychotherapy based on the validity that creativity is an integral part of human development and traumatic coping, and that art is significant in culture and society.
She completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts with Honours in 2009 and has since worked in many fields including community engagement and social inclusion, youth work and suicide prevention.
“Emotions are felt only as they are experienced in the present; as remembered events, they become representations. The conceptual work implied in the act of remembering – of representing to oneself – entails a kind of distanced perception: one thinks rather than simply feels the emotion. For Claparède, to represent oneself in memory was to see oneself “from the outside,” as one might see another.”
Jill Bennett, 2005, Empathic Vision: Affect, trauma and contemporary art.