T.O.T EXHIBITION
Fri, 15 Nov
|RAW GALLERY
VULNERABILITY TO EMPOWERMENT


Time & Location
15 Nov 2019, 6:00 pm
RAW GALLERY, 25 Don St, Invercargill, 9810, New Zealand
About the event
Why am I doing this exhibition?
· To bring awareness to harassment and bullying culture in the workplace, as a nation we need to work harder at keeping a healthy working environment. Investigate a support network, that everyone can access and have resources available. To make it a lot easier to seek advice.
· To tell my story about how my employers never kept me safe and made me vulnerable for three months of ongoing harassment from a work colleague, who would harass and intimidate me on a daily basis. The company never kept me safe and never put measures in to protect me and to put a stop to his intimidation tactics.
· A two-year long legal proceeding and the medias exploitation of my privacy, safety and exposing my identity for online harassment, stalking and feeding the online trolls with their misleading headlines. This has coursed a lot of stress and had an impact of my health and wellbeing.
· For the company to be found guilty by the ERA outlined in a 17-page document and awarding me for $45,000 (90% of this will cover my legal bills). The redundancy was exposed by the ERA as a sham and now waiting to see if the company will pay out and if not, where to from here?
· They are now not responding to my lawyer’s correspondence as the 28 days has expired. My only option was to take the company to the District Courts, I have run out financial resources and unable to pursue this option. The company not complying with ERA’s ruling, in my opinion Geoff Thomson is condoning harassment and unsafe working environment.
· Photography project “What my breast means to me.” I was privileged enough to photograph a diverse range of woman and they shared their personal stories about their breasts. It was a healing journey for everyone involved. Without exposing their identity allowed these women to express themselves in the photoshoot, and when they wrote their stories. This helped change how they felt about their breasts, from Vulnerability to Empowerment!