Kim Noble is a woman who, from the age of 14 years, spent 20 years in and out of hospital until she made contact with Dr Valerie Sinason and Dr Rob Hale at the Tavistock and Portman Clinics. In 1995 she began therapy and was diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder (originally named multiple personality disorder). D.I.D is a creative way to cope with unbearable pain. The main personality splits into several parts with dissociative or amnesic barriers between them. It is a controversial disorder but Kim has had extensive tests over 2 years by leading psychology professor at UCL, John Morton, who has established there is no memory between the personalities and that she has the misfortune of representing the British gold standard over genuine dissociation.
Having no formal art training, Kim and 13 of her personalities (alters) became interested in painting in 2004 after spending a short time with an art therapist. These 12 artists each have their own distinctive style, colours and themes, ranging from solitary desert scenes to sea scenes to abstracts, collages, and paintings with traumatic content. Many alters are unaware that they share a body with other artists.
What is remarkable to all is both the quality of their work and the speed of their progress. Within five years of starting to paint they have already had seventeen successful solo exhibitions and participated in an equal number of group exhibitions. Kim was also the first Artist in Residence at Springfield University Hospital in Tooting, South West London.
www.kimnoble.com
Kim is soon to publish a book called 'All of Me: The Extraordinary Story of the 20 Personalities Sharing My Body'
You can pre-order the book online at Amazon here
Kim Noble
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  Kim Noble: The woman with 100 personalities (guardian.co.uk) | Article | 0 Kb | 03/10/11 09:59 |
| Kim Noble's Multiple Personalities (The Oprah Show) | Video | 0 Kb | 25/01/11 14:36 |
| Portraits of a divided self (guardian.co.uk) | Article | 0 Kb | 25/01/11 14:19 |
| Kim Noble: the artist with multiple personalities (Telegraph) | Article | 0 Kb | 25/01/11 14:18 |
| Different strokes for 12 different folks (Mail Online) | Article | 0 Kb | 25/01/11 14:17 |
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