Tim Thompson

'Neighbours Friends'

Posca pen on paper

Artist Statement - Robyn Thompson, March 2012

For the last 29 years Tim Thompson has been an inspiration

to me in so many ways, the world is full of inspirational people

and to have one in your family is very lucky.

When I was a kid I wished for a brother.

(Birthday candles, wish bones, falling stars.)

One day, 10 years after I was born, my brother finally arrived.

I was so very happy and excited I wanted to tell everyone.

But I saw something I didn’t understand, everyone around me

was sad, my mum was crying and no one was talking, I didn’t know why. Tim was the cutest baby I had ever seen. He was 6 weeks premature and very small, he had trouble with his heart, lungs and was fed through a tube, I heard the hospital people

say, "take Tim home and love him there is nothing we can do,

he will die soon". Tim has had many life and death trips

 to the hospital as a baby and suffers every day with

different things but he never complains.

He has a very unique personality and his cheeky smile always

lifts my spirits. He is an example to all that every day

 is beautiful and life is what you make it.

Tim is an artist, a hip hop rapper, he loves to dance.

He has the most awesome DVD collection of horror cult

movies which feature in his art, and he is a ten pin bowler.

I have kept this portrait straight forward - no background fuss,

noise or distractions, Tim simply doesn’t need them.

I am Tim Thompson’s sister.

'Everybody Loves Tim'

Mixed media on paper

'Dark Ages with a Vision'

- mixed media

from Dark Ages June 2010

'Chucky's Daughter'

- screen print AP

from Art Auction 2010 April 2010

Image: The Northern Rivers Echo

veryAbility Festival Director Zeb Schulz, Lara Cruikshank, David Batton, Padi Bolliger and Tim Thompson play with shadow puppets in the festival's maze at Lismore City Hall. Operating all day on International Day of People With Disabilities (3rd December 2009), the Multimedia Maze allowed people to participate in a multi-sensory experience

including analogue and digital interactive elements, live music and shadow puppetry by Krinkl Theatre.

 'Steven is an Evil Genius' - Mixed Media

 from veryAbility November/December 2009