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The music accompanying this video is selected from the composition “Distance”, written and performed by Sophia Exiner

Extract from  Trish Sidway artist statement

As a young child I watched a man, with the help of his wife, manoeuvre a long pram out of their front gate and down the street. The little girl in it was strapped to the bed with her tiny arms and legs in splints and straps across her body to keep her tiny frame rigid. I could see her pastel coloured frock beneath the straps and wondered why this child was being pushed in such a peculiar pram.

It was not until I went to high school I met Stevie (Margaret Stevens) and learned she had suffered from polio, which had left her with little strength in her left hand. We became firm friends and I watched her struggle with writing in class and unable to join in some of the Physical Education classes.

We moved and I lost contact, however the image of this tiny little person strapped to a pram remains firmly etched in my mind.