We have 20 personalities . Ken
He's a guy he's is a gay guy. Every painting
He does he says it's gonna be a train. None of his paintings looks like a train
So I don't know where that come from.
Judy is 15 year old personality
Oh, she sees herself as being overweight
So she's always on diets a spirit of the water she tends to be out just to have a shower
Yeah, I mean it's still me, but I just accept being cooking
I'm Kim Noble, and I'm an artist I also have dissociative identity disorder
Which it used to be the old multiple personality disorder. It's when other personalities would take over the body
It's caused from Torah and the
Personality of dissociate so for me, it's like sleepwalking somebody can say oh, you've been
You know up painting, and I have no memory of doing it
The exhibition I'm putting on is for the Mental Health Foundation
They approached me so I pulled in from my contemporary artists to the Great's great minds are often mistaken aren't they?
The difference with Kim is that you have no style yeah, it's not you don't say
Oh, that's the Kim noble each picture shows a whole different side to you
You know people who said to me well come back when your stove settles, and it was you know never getting settled because they were
individual artists having their own style I had to
explain
My mental health issues to explain the art
because they came actually hand in hand for me it helps me learn about the other personalities and get a feel and
understanding of them and you know and that's the closest I'm gonna get to him, I'm
Patricia still, but I just accept being cook him. I'm the main personality now, but
Before there was funny wisdom it was a main personality
So I would only probably be out to three times
Perhaps a week at first there was only
Five four five of us painting and as time has gone on other personalities have decided to paint as well
I
started painting
About 12 years ago. I had a support worker here. That was a trainee art therapist and
She said though. Why don't you get on and do some painting? Oh?
I was sitting here chatting, and I said, I'm not interested in painting. I don't know how to paint and any end and decided to
Just have a go and we didn't have any paper or anything can use the back of my paper. It's been
really really useful and helpful and healing oh
This is them another room which I stalled the work in I?
Try to keep them in personalities like all misses are there this is Bonnie's work
That's one of judges
There's usually something in I could see her face within there
Can you see yeah, and I'm not just imagining that you see
This is one of these
That's the compeller one. Oh she
Does to see I think that's Hebrew? I think I don't know these a lot here are
Ria's
Rhea her work is very bright, and it's graphic of abuse I
Had a lot of trouble with her work
Because her paintings are not the ones that people want to be put
You know really on their walls yeah, and that I see is dissociation
that is a print of that girl there so and they've all got that on in some sort of way the
ID is coping mechanism
So I don't have any knowledge of any trauma so that I can then just gotten with my life
And I'm actually not affected by it
Obviously somebody like rear must have some memory of at all. I don't know I mean her paintings suggest she does
I didn't know a personality was taken over because all line had is these
memory gaps but
You know he didn't have a name. He didn't have I didn't have a diagnosis in them days
I was being entreated for anything, but the ID
one of the other personalities that I
Think it was 13
tried to take an overdose
So they were admitted to psychiatric unit and that was it from there. It was in that Hospital
This painting here is by a nun she's called a nun because we
haven't managed to get her name yet she just
Seems to pour on the paint so the paint's quite fresh I see it being very um it's very
Spiritual a woman with all these little ones dancing around
The next one here is a missus. She will only use the three colors and
She just splashes on the paint all the time just doing this and flicking the paint and when Amy was
younger she used to like going up there and getting splattered with paint
Amy's now 20. When she was born
Social Services actually said that would be unfit to bring her up
so they removed her birth
And was putting her up for adoption
I wasn't there at the birth so to me
I didn't give birth to her
but obviously I know that the body did and you know Amy's mine as much as
any of the other personalities so you know I don't want Amy to feel
That she's not mine because she is mine
Obviously, you know our first priority has always been Amy and if I ever thought any of the other personalities would harm Amy
you know I
Wouldn't want her to be with us
But they did not even know me they gave me like an hour assessment said no removed child removed child
You know my own therapist who recommended
I went for a proper assessment in a mother and baby unit she was ignored
We did go through the court system, and she came back to live with us after six months
That's why a lot of the paintings that you know you'll see... Yeah. Oh look
They are and Nun's even nun who has got nothing to do with anything as far as I'm concerned
But you know even her there's a mother and child
This is Susie's
When she was first painting all she kept painting was that
mother and baby mother and baby
And then one day
she done a painting and when you pull it back
there's no baby
So all our paintings have been mother and baby mother and baby mother and baby
and then this ones got a curtain over it
And the baby's gone
It's actually really said, but she never done anymore of those after that
That's something that obviously is deep-rooted and has a knock-on effect
And now you know 20 years on she's doing a law degree. You know in her finally at uni
she's a well-adjusted young person
Think your own touched by mental illness in some shape or form
I hope you're going to understand as well that if you have mental illness
It doesn't necessarily have to be a barrier to anything you want to do
Quite a few of the artists are in the show and you have got mental health issues
It successfully what they do
I
Definitely I prefer doodle artwork. There is no doubt. I love those two pieces. Those are my favorite pieces
I never want some whatever because I like them a lot I can relate to
The person I feel like I can see that perhaps. They've gone through a kind of a struggle
I'm just so proud that I think
No, it's true though because I feel like she's just come such a long way from where her art was
Until now and to see every personality exhibited in one room. It's a bit. I don't know I guess overwhelming
It's a what for you it really
It's something nice about you know actually being classified down as an artist
Rather than just you know somebody weird. I meant help you see that I
Don't want to define me, but I don't think anybody with a mental health issue does
I
Think I have heard that and some people do
Integrate and become one personality I've been told
that I can't integrate because my
Brain is as there are different
Pathways and so it'd be very difficult
if not impossible to
integrate but before even being told that because that was later on after my diagnosis I
never
Entered therapy wanting integration. I just thought that you know who are going to be left with
And I just used too many artists