BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.5//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1037@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20160702 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20160911 DTSTAMP:20160720T141203Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/warrington-museum-art-gallery-lo oking-inside/ SUMMARY:Warrington Museum & Art Gallery: Warrington Museum & Art Gallery: L ooking from the Inside Out DESCRIPTION:Teenage artist draws on cancer battle for inspiration\n\n19-yea r-old Holly Hamer is determined not to be known as ‘the girl with cancer ’ because she also happens to be a very talented artist.\n\nHolly\, from Grappenhall\, has turned her battle with a rare condition called rhabdomy osarcoma into inspiration for a remarkable collection of paintings and dra wings which are now on display at Warrington Museum &\; Art Gallery.\n\ nLooking from the Inside Out explores how Holly is dealing with aspects of her illness including how her body has changed\, her lack of control over the illness and what could be considered as her acceptance of it\n\nHolly said: “It feels so surreal to have my work up on display and it’s a p retty wonderful feeling.\n\n“This body of work is very personal to me so it's slightly nerve-racking for people to be seeing it but it's mainly ex citing to get my work out there.”\n\nWhile undergoing treatment the dete rmined teenager continued with her education\, successfully completing an AS level in art at Sir John Deane’s College in Northwich.\n\nAnd her pas sion for creativity has been spurred on\, rather than diminished\, by her illness.\n\n“I feel as though this [cancer] is a significant event that makes you go through so much pain and lack of control\, and that is someth ing worth expressing because those feelings are so raw and human.\n\n“Cr eating pieces of artwork of different things I went through is what helped me get through everything because it was a way for me to work through all of these feelings and make me understand it more.”\n\nAlthough unable t o work or study at the moment\, Holly’s ambition is to become a full-tim e professional artist.\n\n“I've always been creative and enjoyed drawing \,” she added\, “but it’s only the past couple of years that I’ve really got into it.\n\n“It's ever since I was diagnosed and wanted to fi ll my time with something I enjoyed that I've felt a passion to create.\n\ n“I do want to be a professional artist. If I could spend my days painti ng and drawing and put my heart and soul into each piece\, and make a livi ng out of it\, that would be the dream.”\n\nLooking from the Inside Out is supported by CLIC Sargent\, a charity which provides vital emotional\, practical and financial support to young cancer patients and their familie s during and after treatment.\n\nHolly credits James George\, a CLIC Sarge nt social worker she was supported by at The Christie hospital\, for helpi ng her deal with her illness and aiding her to explore her emotions and ex periences through art.\n\nHe was so impressed by the teenager’s talent t hat he encouraged her to approach Derek Dick\, outreach and engagement man ager for Warrington Museum &\; Art Gallery\, with some of her work whic h ultimately clinched the young artist her first ever solo exhibition.\n\n Mr Dick said: “Holly’s maturity is clear in the way she uses art as a vehicle for expressing her emotions.\n\n“When I first met Holly I made i t clear she was only offered the show because of the quality of her work a nd not because of her cancer.\n\n“Her artwork is both strong and emotion al and it deserves to be seen in its own right.”\n\nListings information :\n\nExhibition title: Looking from the Inside Out\nDates: Saturday 2 July – Saturday 10 September\nAdmission: Free\nWarrington Museum &\; Art Gallery\, Museum Street\, Warrington\, WA1 1JB\n\nwww.warringtonmuseum.co. uk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2016/07/Holly_1434-small.jpg LOCATION:Warrington Museum & Art Gallery\, Bold Street\, Warrington\, WA1 1 DR\, Warrington\, United Kingdom GEO:53.38857;-2.596091 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Bold Street\, Warrington\, WA1 1DR\, Warrington\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Warringto n Museum & Art Gallery:geo:53.38857,-2.596091 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20160327T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR