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DOMESTIC AND FAMILY VIOLENCE

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  • This work was created and exhibited under the Northern Beaches Creative Community Support Grants Program 2020.<br />
This image is a recreation of a Domestic Violence lived experience.
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  • HE KEPT A KNIF IN THE FREEZER WITH MY NAME ON IT. This work was created and exhibited under the Northern Beaches Creative Community Support Grants Program 2020.<br />
This image is a recreation of a Domestic Violence lived experience.
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  • AFTER I LEFT HIM HE KEPT A KNIFE IN THE FREEZER WITH MY NAME ON IT.HE WOULD SHOW IT TO THE KIDS This work was created and exhibited under the Northern Beaches Creative Community Support Grants Program 2020.<br />
This image is a recreation of a Domestic Violence lived experience.
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  • Too Many tins of Tomatoes. <br />
He was such a control freak. The burst of anger would come from nowhere. He would make me carry all the groceries from the car when I was in the late stages of pregnancy. He would organise the pantry, even though he never cooked. Then would through tins of tomatoes at screaming “you have too many tins of tomatoes “ If I started limping or bandaged any of my injuries he would then  say “ why are you limping … I didn’t do that”
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  • Too Many tins of Tomatoes. <br />
He was such a control freak. The burst of anger would come from nowhere. He would make me carry all the groceries from the car when I was in the late stages of pregnancy. He would organise the pantry, even though he never cooked. Then would through tins of tomatoes at screaming “you have too many tins of tomatoes “ If I started limping or bandaged any of my injuries he would then  say “ why are you limping … I didn’t do that”
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  • “Constantly being told you are  f…ckn ugly bitch and unattractive gets so deep into your psychi it’s hard to remove or dilute. All so confusing when he showers you with gifts and calls you names at the same time.”<br />
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This work was created and exhibited under the Northern Beaches Creative Community Support Grants Program 2020.<br />
This image is a recreation of a Domestic Violence lived experience.
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  • “Constantly being told you are  f…ckn ugly bitch and unattractive gets so deep into your psychi it’s hard to remove or dilute. All so confusing when he showers you with gifts and calls you names at the same time.”<br />
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This work was created and exhibited under the Northern Beaches Creative Community Support Grants Program 2020.<br />
This image is a recreation of a Domestic Violence lived experience.
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  • The spaces between the violence were just as scary as the violence itself.
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  • Always trying to blend in so I would not be noticed
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  • Always trying to blend in so I would not be noticed
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  • Spiritual Abuse is a thing.
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  • 'If only you knew what was happening to me at home. Sometimes I tried to communicate with people telepathically to let them know I needed help.'
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  • "Although you can't see the violence, it does not mean it is not there. 20 years after leaving my abuser I am still washing away the stain it has left on me."
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  • Children and young peoples experiences of family violence differs to that of the adults experience. <br />
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"When I was really little my step dad would beat the shit out of my mum every night"
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  • You just never knew when he was going to explode.
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  • The dark cloud looms
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  • This image aims to explore the multi-layered complexities of Family and Domestic Violence The approach and style of the images are as diverse as domestic violence itself. Much like the complexities of understanding time, a linear approach is futile. From the micro-seconds between the acts of violence, to dipping toes into other planes of time and existence where disassociation marries survival. Time, memory, longevity and the pace of violence are inherently expressed in this collection.
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  • This image aims to explore the multi-layered complexities of Family and Domestic Violence The approach and style of the images are as diverse as domestic violence itself. Much like the complexities of understanding time, a linear approach is futile. From the micro-seconds between the acts of violence, to dipping toes into other planes of time and existence where disassociation marries survival. Time, memory, longevity and the pace of violence are inherently expressed in this collection.v
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  • “He controlled all the money. I just went to work. I was earning money but had no access to it. Not that I needed too much, but he wouldn’t allow me to go shopping for myself, because I’d have to justify everything. If I wanted to buy the kids something, he would go with me. The only time he would ever allow me to buy something was usually when I was going somewhere with him, because he would want me to look like a trophy wife.”
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  • ANGELA: “My father physically abused me from the age of nine, until thirteen when I was sent away. My brother was my champion in the family and the one that saw the goodness in me. One of the most important things that I took from him was something that he told me from the ancient Egyptians: They all wanted to die with their heart as light as a feather.  I’ve been on a mission to try and do that, so I can die with my heart as light as a feather, without hate in my heart.”
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  • MAYA: “His money pretty much went to gambling. The majority of the time, my pay went to the mortgage, and paid all the bills, and all the food. There were times where my pay would pay the mortgage, and there’d be $100 left. He’d go, ‘there’s $80 for me and $20 for you.’ So, me and the kids lived on minced meat and sausages. He would always say ‘look, I've only hit you a handful of times. It's not abuse. What are you talking about?’”
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  • RUBY: “He lost it because he wasn't in control of what I was doing. He threw a punnet of blueberries at the wall, so I walked out. When I came home and saw the blueberries on the wall that he still hadn't cleaned up. I was thinking “I'm not picking up those blueberries. I’m eight and a half months pregnant with twins. I'm not cleaning the wall.”
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  • SANDRA: “I used to get the flowers. It was nice at first and then I realised it was just guilt. And I’m thinking “yeah, you called me every name under the sun last night and now you’re bringing flowers home.” I’d rather just a kiss and a cuddle and him to say, “I’m sorry,” but I’d never get that, I’d get a gift. He was a gift giver to cover up his own conscience
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  • SAM: “I have a couple of flashes of memories. One incident I remember in the lounge room and him grabbing the old-fashioned dialling telephone, and saying to me, “don’t you think of calling anyone.” And I must have been about four, so I don’t know if I could. But he put the phone up on the mantlepiece out of my reach. My mum had been in the shower, and when she got out of the shower, he stormed from the living room into the hallway, where I could see, and he grabbed her around the throat, and was strangling her up against the wall.”
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  • LAINIE: “I was the eldest of four children and I grew up with a violent mother and father. I used to go into a space and close my eyes and see like colours and changes inside there. And just sit there with my eyes shut and ignore what was going on around me. So that was a nice coping strategy.”
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  • MELISSA: “As the kids were getting bigger, I had a conversation with him in the kitchen and I remember him saying, ‘those kids would listen to you and believe anything that you told them.” And from then on, he made a concerted effort to undermine me. He was encouraging the kids when the kids started attacking me. He saw me with bruises from the kids, and he rang the police and said, ‘she’s making stuff up and she’s going to say that I’ve done these bruises.’”
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  • BRIANNA: “When I met him I had no debt. I had savings in the bank towards a house deposit. I had shares. I was working full time for a government department. I was in a really good financial position. And in the six and a half years I was with that perpetrator, my savings were eroded and I had to sell off pretty much all my shares. I’m in massive debt, all to fund him being able to go to festivals, travel, and maintain his addictions of gambling, alcohol, drugs and online shopping. He’s never paid a cent towards the debt and I’m still paying it off.”
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