Australia (UCB Pharma Purchase Award)

"Through having epilepsy my creativity and artwork changed dramatically. I have always used the creation of artwork as a tool for self analysis and discovery. I hope that the work the I have created during the time that I had epilepsy coveys the inner struggle that I was going through in coming to terms with my epilepsy. I feel that there is, emotionally so much more that can be said with images and artwork than words. This is the only way I can properly articulate the experience of having epilepsy for me. I would like for it to be better understood that people with epilepsy are just normal people that deal with seizures."

In Art Exhibit '09

Time for Rest

by Shea O'Keefe

pen & coloured pencil on mono-print (2004)