The in-between

The in-betweenJaq Van Damme is a Brisbane based artist with multiple personalities dissociative identity disorder, who has also been diagnosed with level two autism and ADHD. Jaq has more than one alter (alternative personality) artist, and works primarily with oil and acrylic. In 2015, Jaq testified at the Royal Commission into sexual abuse in institutions and began creating art to cope. She now spends every moment creating colourful canvases and rescued

and she faced countless and relentless adversities

I created this piece to express the joy that nature can bring to the troubled mind

His expression is bright

and shared resilience

Solitude comes with grief

Her abstract pieces explore the interplay of pattern and surface

often exploring themes of the feminine form

Pre-Raphaelites

marked and put back together so many times

Bob often paints landscapes on large canvases

Having experienced serious mental ill health throughout her teens

and acknowledges the stirring power of purposeful colours