Here I interview artist and singer, RozaGy about a recent song to raise autism awarness.
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A slideshow by Donna Williams.

(YouTube)

The Australian film industry has been involved in some memorable and groundbreaking films – Breaker Morant, Gallipoli, The Piano, Murial’s Wedding, Rabbit Proof Fence, Shine, Lantana, Ten Canoes. But with a population of only 20 million people, government funding for the film industry has always been limited and until now, the majority of recent Australian films have been made on an average budget of $4M per film (and many for less, as little as $1M-$2M) Read the rest of this entry »

Here’s an interview with fellow autie artist, Deborah Thorsos.

Deborah is one of the many talented people on the autism spectrum who have listed her work on www.auties.org (it’s all free). Read the rest of this entry »

Folks, this is the review page for the first of my music albums, the Nobody Nowhere CD.

But check out review number 3.
The first part is by a mum.
But look at the second part of it.
It’s just cute as a button.
What a kid.

Well, Robert, aged 7 and a 1/2, I hope we do get to meet some time.

🙂 Donna Williams *)

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I first used the word ARTism in 2000 to describe how my artistic personality trait had taken over where my autism left off, hence, artism. In 2004 I gave a presentation on ARTism in Those With Autism at Flinders University. The first web references of the use of the word artism go back to 1969. Today the term artism is used by both artists with autism, and many without. And why not? Artism is to artists what chocoholism is to chocoholics.

The ARTism store
Once upon a time there were Donna Williams‘ T-shirts which people bought around with world and mostly in the UK where I was touring when I lived there. Well, they’re back. Not exactly the ones available back then but well worth a visit to the new online shop, if only for a look around. And if t-shirts don’t interest you, there’s plenty else; mugs, mouse mats, bags, and other stuff. Its ARTism city. Hope to see you there.

at http://www.cafepress.com/donnawilliams/

Hope to see you there.

Even better, consider the service this place offers artists and how you might utilise it to express your own creativity.

Every the arty autie….

Donna Williams *)
http://www.donnawilliams.net

Bestselling fantasy fiction author, Caiseal Mor, was diagnosed with ASD as a child. He’d written his autobiography in adulthood but the publishers and the journalists who helped his fiction works climb to fame were convinced that public awareness of his autism would be unhelpful to book sales. He was not only strongly discouraged from going public about having ASD but a whole other persona was created for him instead. Read the rest of this entry »

The room was noisy and a chicken coup. People mingled, glasses in hand, smiley, interested heads bobbing. My husband Chris and I hugged our chairs in a quiet, rather solitary space outside of the hub-bub. A waitress came around with canapes. It sounds like canned apes, but no, in fact its little hors d’oeuvres – kind of said, ‘horses doovers’ – consisting of mini pastry things with artistically stuffed contents, and pretty much all but one shaslik containing dairy and or gluten. No snackos for me then. Read the rest of this entry »

I have an art exhibition coming up in Melbourne

April 11th-May 2nd,
Gallery 15,
15 William St, Melbourne.

open Monday-Friday 9am-6pm.
info@peakevents.com.au

It’s a wonderful inner city gallery involved with a program called Art for a Cause in which artists can use their work to raise awareness or funds for a cause they support.

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This year I met the amazing Janette Geri.

She is a wild self-owning woman with a 100 year old soul, the energy of a garden pixie and the ‘can do’ resolve of a born optimist. Read the rest of this entry »