Exhibition: Grief Week

In Partnership with Hope Bereavement Care

This project  aims to normalise the universal, yet often stigmatised, human experience of grieving, by generating interest, creating conversation, and providing opportunities for learning. 

Grief is something that will affect us all at some point in our lives, yet there is still much taboo about the human experience of bereavement.  As Dr Colin Murray Parkes, a British psychiatrist at St Christopher’s Hospice, states in his book, Bereavement: Studies of Grief in Adult Life:

“The pain of grief is just as much part of life as the joy of love: it is perhaps the price we pay for love, the cost of commitment. To ignore this fact, or to pretend that it is not so, is to put on emotional blinkers which leave us unprepared for the losses that will inevitably occur in our lives and unprepared to help others cope with losses in theirs.”

This project aims to start conversations about a topic that is all too often ignored or sidestepped, while improving awareness about grief and offering practical advice on how to support ourselves or those in the community who are bereaved.

Our hope is that by facilitating, open, honest, discussions, these will serve as a catalyst to bring people together to learn more about grief, and how we can better support one another.

The exhibition will include a collection of art pieces, including paintings, sculpture, drawings and photography along with written pieces such as poems, quotes, songs and stories, by people who have experienced the loss of a loved one and used art and storytelling, as a means to explore their grief through the creative process. Art Pieces will be created as part of Children’s Memory Mornings and Adult Creative Bereavement Workshops, as well as submissions from Hope Clients and the general public. Written stories and quotes  will also provide a reflection of grief and bereavement experiences.

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