My name is Meg Minkley. I am a Warrior of the Female sort. I am an Artist. I am a Designer. I am a Soul Adventurer. I am a Survivor of Rape. A Drawing A Day is the voice of my story. It’s 365 days of illustrations that I plan to exhibit on the 31st of July, 2014 - in support of stopping violence against women I will be raising funds and awareness with the White Ribbon foundation. To make this happen, my drawings need frames for your eyes to ogle them. I need your help to do this - this is why I am Crowd-Funding. Please help me break the silence with art. With the arrival of 2013 I began my solo travels throughout Mexico. Very soon into the adventure I was suddenly faced with the first hand experience of rape, throwing my life into an unknown spin. Very quickly I was on a plane back to my home in Sydney Australia, for a little R&R.

However I could not find the access to support groups I was dreaming of - cups of tea and conversations with other fellow survivors. I quickly realised that the topic of rape and the very frequently real acts of violence against women was all a little taboo for my liking.

Left to my own devices, I took on the challenge of beginning A Drawing A Day, to process the roller coaster road I did not yet I know I was on.



I made it a Facebook page - A Drawing A Day, so eyes on me could not let me fail.



Little did I know that this creative venture of mine, was yet to take off and that the supportive eyes around me of family, friends and absolutely groovy strangers; liked my colours just as much as I did.

I made a shop online and I now share and sell my colours on other peoples walls all over the world.



365 days later, I found myself stronger, braver, better. With 365 drawings, a happy heart and a very loud voice. As a survivor through art and by speaking not hiding, this creative challenge has given me the courage to feel colourful again; I am now using my work and my voice to share this bravery with other fellow survivors whom might not have the colours they are searching for in order to regain a happy life again.

I have paired myself up with White Ribbon [Australia's campaign to stop violence against women], and I now use my colours and my voice to offer that support I was so looking for twelve months ago, in hope to reach and encourage other silent survivors that IT IS OKAY TO SPEAK UP and stay colourful. RAPE IS NOT TABOO ! [Think of three women in your life, statistically one of them will have reported to have experienced physical or sexual violence in her lifetime].




I am not stopping at 365 days, I want to expand into a brand and a label that offers the social and creative resources to other women in need, offering a creative model and threads to process and understand the roller coaster we will often find ourselves on after experiencing such crimes of violence.

To celebrate 365 days of A Drawing A Day; to celebrate colour, recovery and to continue the dance to raise and spread the undeniably important awareness of such violence; I am hosting an exhibition, in which proceeds of sales will go towards White Ribbon and our plight to not only help stop violence against women but also sing and dance to the fact that violent crimes such as rape and domestic violence are not TABOO and are very real stories to share, listen and spread to.

However, in order to achieve my goal in reaching the wider community, spreading the colour internationally and continuing the plight to stop violence against women; I desperately need your help so I am able to purchase the frames that will house these 365 days, these 365 artworks for your eye balls to ogle at and your souls to connect with. Artworks that are illustrative of my own experience when travelling the tough and tumble road to recovery and rebuilding my new skin. I made the choice to not let another actions control my life, instead to mix it up into a new unknown colour to create an even better life I could not have imagined was possible after my experience with rape. Help me reach out and let others know that they can do the same. To be able to dedicate proceeds of my colours to white ribbon I need your help to raise the funds for framing and in return for your coins I will involve you in the show - dedicating personal colours to you for your walls and your soul to enjoy.



We do not invest in victims. We invest in survivors and in ways both big and small the narrative of the victim shapes the way we see women. You can’t count on what you don't see and we don't invest in what is invisible to us, but this is the face of resilience and i really hope you choose to invest in not only my story but the story I share with countless women (and men) all over the world.

In order to get the 365 works of A Drawing A Day behind glass, preserved for a lifetime of eyeball ogling through conservation framing and available to the public - I desperatley need your help. To be able to raise a substantial amount of funding to White Ribbon and to continue spreading the colour by breaking this taboo - I desperatley need your help.

Each artwork will cost $50 to frame, and with 365 pieces I am looking at a grand total of $18,250.

This is an incredible amount of coins but as far as high end conservation framing goes it is essential and absolutely has to be done. Conservation framing will literally preserve the artwork forever, and as a professional artist I will not let any great colour be boxed up any other way.

With your help to exhibit these drawings, you will be allowing me tell my story publicly - spreading the word, breaking the silence and raising much needed funds for the White Ribbon foundation.

Please help in making this difference.

Extra funds if I am lucky enough, will go towards other inevitable costs that arise when hosting an exhibition - invitations, advertising, renting of a venue, and in this particular case a few introductory clothing pieces to a small fashion label I have created 'She'. For those who would rather wear art on your body then watch it on your walls - or in the case of the very silenced cycle of domestic violence, a woman such as this can wear a piece of 'She' and feel the comradery between her and her fellow survivor warriors. Any extra coin will contribute toward the very costly production of this - printing fabric with originally artwork, sewing garments, producing labels etc.

I have several extremely delicious rewards for your unbelievably generous pledges. I am eternally grateful, thankful and humble for your genoristy and even if its just your eyeballs having an ogle at this campaign and then passing on by, I thank you for that. Because it means I have broken at least just one more silence.



Thank you.

The greatest risk involved in not reaching my Pozible target is ultimately the missed opportunity to display the work that saw me through 365 really tough days. These are 365 days that if the moments were framed and able to show in a gallery, could and would make a very large difference to the wider community, fellow survivors, their friends and family and society as a whole. I would also miss out on reaching my target to send continuous proceeds to white ribbon.

**I hope sharing my story and my art will help others who have or are being affected by violence against women**