Patricia King

Patricia is a 44 year old women who from the age of 14 years old has spent 20 years in and out of hospital until she made contact with Dr Valerie Sinason and Dr Rob Hale at the Tavistock and Portman Clinics. 10 years ago she began therapy and was diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder (originally named multiple personality disorder). D.I.D is a creative way to cope with unbearable pain. The main personality splits into several parts each having an amnesic barrier between them. It is a conventional disorder but Patricia has had extensive tests over 2 years by leading psychology professor at UCL, John Morton , who has established there is no memory between the personalities and that she has the misfortune of representing the British gold standard over genuine Dissociation.

Having no formal art training, Patricia and 12 of her personalities (alters) became interested in painting in 2004 after spending a short time with an art therapist. These 12 artists each have their own distinctive style, colour and themes, ranging from solitary desert scenes, to sea scenes to abstracts, collages and paintings with traumatic content. Many are unaware that they share a body with other artists.

Solo Exhibitions

Dominic Restaurant Gallery, Hampstead London February 2004

Multiple choice Burgh House, Hampstead London

Artist in Resident at Daffodil Arts Centre, Springfield Hospital, Tooting September 2005

Unknown Conversations with My Selves, Pepperton Gallery London SE25 September 2005

Double Take Putney Arts Theatre, Putney October 2005

Me and My Shadows Lauderdale House, Highgate, London April 2006

Art House
Brittania Row
Islington
N1

Sept. 2006



Group Exhibitions

Pepperton Gallery, London SE25 December 2004

Art and Poetry, The Clock Tower, Croydon, April 2005

Art fair, Abbey Gallery, East Sussex, June 2005

Arts in Mind 9 Hoxton, London February 2006

Burgh House Hampstead, London March 2006

Sapphire Fairfield Halls, Croydon March 2006

Pepperton gallery, London SE25 April 2006

Celebrating Nursing, Fairfield Halls May 2006

The raw arts festival, Valencia, Spain
October 2006


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