A Diary 24th July- 16th October 2009

5 – 26 August 2011

RICH MIX Gallery 35 – 47 Bethnal Green Road, London, E1 6LA

richmix.org.uk

In July 2009, 25-year-old illustrator and AOI member, Amie Howarth, was admitted into an eating-disorders clinic after completing a post-grad at the London Institute of the Arts, she chronicled her three-month stay with a visual diary, using watercolours, pen, ink and embroidery. The diary charts the admission, and although she is still fighting her 14 year-long battle, it provides an insight into the disorder, and diminishes the notion that illness makes you a victim. The work is sometimes wry and often moving.