Suzzan Blac (born Birmingham, UK, 1960) is an English

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painter Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...

whose work depicts physical, mental and sexual abuse based on personal experience.

Profile

Artwork

In 2009, Blac exhibited at Resistance Gallery in London, a show entitled "A Basement of Dolls". The exhibition focused on

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and the body images of girls and women. Her art has also been shown in

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. Her visual art was included in ''Metamorphosis 2: 50 Contemporary Surreal, Fantastic and Visionary Artists'' by Jon Beinart, Meg Woodsworth, and Hilary Simmons. Blac's work is being used in social worker training, and to help abuse-victims in

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Writing

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entitled ''The Rebirth of Suzzan Blac'' (Bettie Youngs Books, 2012) tells of the writer's troubled childhood of poverty and sexual abuse and the her use of her artwork to heal herself. Blac contributed "My canvas, my pain, my healing" to ''Prostitution Narratives: Stories of Survival in the Sex Trade'' by

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and Caroline Norma.

References

Marc Boisclair, "Trauma Oculaire : Suzzan Blac", Sinistre magazine, January 25, 2011, (Accessed April 26, 2012) "A Basement of Dolls – Suzzan Blac", Kultur Kurier, 2009, http://www.kulturkurier.de/veranstaltung_165492.html (Accessed April 26, 2012) "A Basement of Dolls - Resistance Gallery", 2009, (Accessed April 26, 2012)

External links

Official website
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