Category: Parkinson’s

Powerful and uplifting – Magic Happens: The Story of Painting with Parkinsons by Nancy Tingey

Feb 5, 2019

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Artist and curator Nancy Tingey was the first person I interviewed for my history of the Churchill Trust, Inspiring Australians (2015) and it was a wonderful story to begin my research with. Nancy founded the group, Painting with Parkinsons in Canberra in 1994. Her husband Bob had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s a few years before…