Susan Te Kahurangi King
"Susan Te Kahurangi King was born in 1951 in Te Aroha, the second in a family that would eventually include twelve children. She grew up in a farming town on New Zealand’s North Island, and her parents, who studied and championed their country’s indigenous Maori culture, gave her a Maori middle name, which means “treasured one.” Around the age of four, for no apparent reason, Susan stopped speaking, but continued to express herself through prolific drawings and sketchbooks. For many years, her parents sought medical help for their daughter, but decades ago, little was understood about Susan’s condition.
Mysteriously, beginning in the late 1980s, Susan stopped making art altogether. Then, after about 20 years, in 2008, she resumed making her drawings, with their unusual compositions and curious quoting of found source material, including the cartoon characters she admires." [source: https://www.meer.com/en/11908-susan-te-kahurangi-king]
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