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AUSTRALIAN STYLE
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JANUARY 2000
Iron
Maiden
By JACK MARX
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PHOTO BY GREG WEIGHT |
Theresa Byrnes
suffers from Friedreich’s Ataxia, a rare and fatal degenerative disease of
the nervous system. She is also a full-time artist, an Australia Day
Ambassador, recipient of a Young Australian
of the Year Award and, more recently, author of The Divine Mistake, her
autobiography. In something of a muscular mood, Theresa spoke to us in an
old church in Sydney, which is now her home, her studio and her place of
worship...
Writing must be an exhausting process for you.
I’m not afraid of being exhausted, I’m afraid of being bored. I never sit
still anymore...Well, you know what I mean. I need to have my brakes on. I
guess I’m quite a driven person. I feel very intensely and I’m a very visual
person. I just have such a vision and such a desire to paint and express. I
am inspired just by being a human being. I feel my spirit in my body and
it’s so strong. I have all of these feelings and I’ve just got to get them
out... |
