A gallery of self-reflections made by older people. Many of these artists were in poor health and the fragile, wavering lines and whispered words often mark a struggle with pain and illness as well as the ageing process.
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Edith Joyce’s pencil self-portrait is a sequence of images that skip playfully across each other like a joyous, curvaceous cubism, while Raymond Weaver’s portrait of himself places words across its own mouth, both speaking and silencing. Pauline Eaton’s self is a vision that is colossal and collapsed......
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