Brabon is the Melbourne author of The Memory Artist and The Shut Ins. And while she's lived with chronic pain since her early ...

Frida Kahlo and Sylvia Plath were two very well known ... corsets and there are images of her painting herself in bed with a mirror. She was stuck in this body in pain, but it became her subject ...

Frida Kahlo was a Mexican artist ... While she was in bed recovering Frida's mother brought in an easel and a mirror so she could paint and be her own model. These self-portraits were often ...