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Press release from the MAP Foundation

January 4th 2011

Cancer exhibition prints go on sale

Artist Michele Petrone’s iconic exhibition tracing his experience of cancer, has been produced in a series of 21 top quality prints which go on sale for the first time. The Emotional Cancer Journey charts Petrone’s feelings and emotions from the day when, at the age of 30, he was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease. It was the day which was to change the whole course of his life as an artist – and subsequently the lives of cancer patients and their carers across the world. In a series of vividly painted images and text, Michele describes his parallel journey - both medical and emotional. In so doing he reached out to the thousands of people who find it so difficult to express their fears and emotions when faced with life-threatening illness.

This exhibition, and the book which followed, were taken to venues up and down the country and internationally. Michele set up the MAP Foundation in order to run workshops enabling patients, their carers and the medical staff, to express their feelings of suffering, and caring for people with life-threatening illness, through art. The response was electrifying.

Professor Lesley Fallowfield, Cancer Research UK Psycho-oncology Group commented: “Michele found means of touching us all whatever our connection with cancer, in a way that graphs and statistics cannot. His own art and prose that accompanied it, changes the way that people feel and view the disease.”

Three years after his death, the MAP Foundation has made available the entire exhibition in a series of Giclee prints, digitally produced on A2 art quality paper as used by leading galleries. The print process is ideally suited to the vibrancy of Petrone’s trade-mark colours. Each image is available at £45 plus post and packing. There are special offers available to healthcare professionals. The prints are packed in a cardboard tube and sent by Special Delivery, and should arrive within 14 days. They can be purchased through the MAP Shop on the new MAP website which launched this year. The site includes Michele’s exhibitions along with paintings produced by MAP workshop participants. The site also tells Michele’s story and there are regularly updated news pages.

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