2022 HEALING THE YOUTH EXHIBITION View fullsize View fullsize Silvana Benacchio | The Way Out Is To Go Within | 2021 ARTIST’S STATEMENT: The way out of crisis, challenge, turmoil, indecision is to go within. Pause, breathe slowly & deeply, become still and silent and listen to your inner knowing. You have all the answers you need within you. You were born with all the resources you need in life. As long as you keep breathing, there is always hope. You have the power to grow your outcomes. Be mindful of the ‘thought seeds’ you plant. The seed of Knowing & Hope is within you. View fullsize Silvana Benacchio | The Journey Within | 2021 ARTIST’S STATEMENT: Looking for answers to Life’s challenges and complexities, we can glean advice, information, media, experience, influences from the outside of us but the answers are always within us. View fullsize Katia Honour | Cultivation | 2021 ARTIST’S STATEMENT: A playful, colourful spiritual master is shown controlling water and fire, yet he is just a puppet guided by a modern man. The subject is the famous actor Leo Luo Yunxi, depicted dressed for a Wuxia role (martial arts hero) and also in his normal attire. It represents how we as mere mortals can still cultivate our own character as something wonderful. We have the freedom and potential to show up to ourselves, and to others, as powerful and graceful heroes. View fullsize Caroline Proctor | Dove of Inner Freedom | 2022 ARTIST’S STATEMENT: A dove flies in a vortex of colour, representing the higher dimensions manifesting on our Earth, for greater inner and outer freedom!! View fullsize Caroline Proctor | Inner Freedom | 2022 ARTIST’S STATEMENT: “As we mediate on freedom and freedom for all, we help to increase personal peace and harmony for others…globally…” View fullsize Anthony Breslin | Squeak Squeak | 2022 ARTIST’S STATEMENT: Gifting loving kindness to all helps take our attention off ourselves, being in and protecting nature and all animals. View fullsize Anthony Breslin | Oink Oink | 2022 ARTIST’S STATEMENT: Gifting loving kindness to all helps take our attention off ourselves, being in and protecting nature and all animals. View fullsize Lee Hirsh | Healing The Youth | 2022 ARTIST’S STATEMENT: As we come of age, we aspire to be heard, not just listen to, in a grownups world. View fullsize Wren Sullivan | Moonlight | 2022 ARTIST’S STATEMENT: Let us savage the garbage heap and turn old things into something new and exciting. View fullsize Ruby Vaggelas | I Hold What Is Mine - Mum’s Dress | 2021 ARTIST’S STATEMENT: I Hold What is Mine focuses into inner healing of the past through the connections forged between needle and thread, and oneself. View fullsize Ruby Vaggelas | I Hold What Is Mine - Chrysanthemums | 2021 ARTIST’S STATEMENT: I Hold What is Mine focuses into inner healing of the past through the connections forged between needle and thread, and oneself. View fullsize Sara Lili Steiner Bakker | Crash Debris | 2022 ARTIST’S STATEMENT: The images are of found objects that has been renewed through photography, giving life to old and used things. We should make peace and beauty out of such things. View fullsize Sara Lili Steiner Bakker | Playing Cards | 2022 ARTIST’S STATEMENT: The images are of found objects that has been renewed through photography, giving life to old and used things. We should make peace and beauty out of such things.