But sitting for Maya was joyous and chaotic."A number of portraits hanging throughout the gallery space show Kaye adorned in garish costumes."Maya has a unique, messy, chaotic eye that throws finesse and refinement out the window in favour of chaos, and almost a primal, messy expression of queerness that owes more to punk than some might expect," Kaye says.Tamang came to art as a teenager, not through school — which she never finished — but through art therapy sessions subsidised by the NDIS.Painting gave her a way to express things that were hard to put into words."Separating myself from what's going on around me and putting my head down and working is my escape," she says.A few years ago, a solo show in a CBD gallery would have seemed impossible Tamang found her way to the gallery, which works with artists who are neurodivergent or living with disability, less than a year ago through a mutual friend she met at an exhibition opening."There are small and large supported studios that have really big group settings for artists to connect," director Sim Luttin says."We're more one-on-one in the way we work with artists."What that one-on-one support looks like in practice is often small and practical