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Report from ISO

By |2022-04-24T21:00:08+10:00April 24th, 2022|About, Blog, Creativity, Living|

Well, hello, COVID. After all the care, caution and staying in, Omicron finally caught us from no idea where. After all the fear of catching this virus, considering my Inflammasome gene and my chronic health issue, I'm happy to report that I breezed through it! I was abundant with the usual energy that comes to me when social obligation falls away. In addition, the pain levels fell away as they have done with previous colds – can the brain not manage two signals or is a virus some distraction? I went with it. I got stuck into my studio!

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Semi Finalist for the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize 2014

By |2017-12-11T13:40:37+11:00October 15th, 2014|Blog, Creativity|

Very chuffed to be selected as a semi finalist regardless of the outcome. The portrait was flown up to Sydney for a second round of judging. She didn't make the final cut of 30 finalists but I feel so content that Ms Soula is going to great lengths to create awareness for invisible pain.

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Cathartic collage, my self portraits for sale

By |2016-05-15T21:05:07+10:00August 9th, 2014|About, Blog, Creativity|

Collage has been a little more therapeutic for me than my usual art forms. I think it must have been finding a technique that I could manage and one that didn't add to the fatigue and pain. Cutting small pieces of paper and glueing, drawing, attaching was just so light and easy. The painting of small pieces of paper and the careful ripping and tearing was like rocking. So gentle, so calming and at the same time feeling like I was handling my pain, expressing it and getting it out of my body and onto the art piece. ... Contact me if you want to purchase my artwork, these are the original pieces, no printouts will be sold. Paypal or Direct deposit available. Will post safely and securely free within Australia (plus postage outside of Australia).

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Visual Pursuits book review on Art & Chronic Pain – A Self Portrait

By |2021-02-24T10:32:28+11:00January 4th, 2014|Advocacy, Creativity|

In Art and Chronic Pain – A Self Portrait, artist Soula Mantalvanos shares her experience with chronic pain, which has been a debilitating presence in her life for almost seven years. Soula suffers from Pudendal Neuralgia, a painful nerve condition that developed following an accident where a fit ball that she was sitting on burst, causing her to drop violently to the concrete floor beneath. Early on in the book Soula describes that split-second, and the devastating effects that followed. A highly active yoga-loving woman before the accident, throughout the book Soula gives a deeply personal account of the psychological, emotional and physical impacts of living with chronic pain for so many years. These negative effects were compounded by the fact that her condition Pudendal Neuralgia baffled her doctors, and took four and a half years to even diagnose.

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Soula Mantalvanos created pudendalnerve.com.au to advocate for people living with Pudendal Neuralgia and other and invisible pain related illnesses. Do you have pelvic chronic pain? Have you had this pain since injury, pregnancy, birth, or some other trauma to your pelvic area? Perhaps you are an elite athlete or cyclist? Does it feel like a toothache, does it itch and gnaw, do you feel like you’re on fire? Do you feel spasms, fluttering and glitchy? Are your toilet and sexual signals and functions irregular? Is there no obvious issue on your x-rays and MRIs? Do you find distraction can often work incredibly but afterwards the pain becomes excruciating? Is the pain often worse after activity rather than during? Do you feel no one quite understands you, your explanations, and your pain descriptions? Have you been told you have a Psychological Condition, and been left to feel like you’re crazy? Do you associate your pain with ringing in your ears and feel you can’t quite pinpoint where it is? Would you say its painful to speak at times and that sounds and speaking hurts? Have you had endless appointments with no relief? Do vibrations, a fright, or bumps send a surge through your spine? Do your legs feel weak? Do you find sitting unbearable? Have you fallen on your coccyx or had an accident, and after years it still feels like it happened yesterday? Are you part of an Australian Workers’ Compensation system and feel you are being treated poorly and that the whole system is like a circus? Do you feel the Australian Workers’ Compensation system can’t help with return to work because the VWA Agent treats you poorly? Do you feel the system is out of date and primitive and has no understanding for Chronic Pain or your situation? Then Soula sadly welcomes you (NOT) to the world of chronic pain. © Copyright 2012 -    |   pudendalnerve.com.au created by ooi   |   Hosted with Digital Pacific
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