Izzy invited participants to respond to a list of prompts via the medium of video or moving image.

Grief as Badousian ‘Event’, or ‘My Year of Magical Painting’ with Lucy Wright

Helen asks; ‘As artists, how do we verbalise the embodied experience and the essential subjective undertaking of yielding meaning? How do we put things into words?’

Astral Projection and Subconscious Communication: Using Hermetic Guided Meditation to Navigate Grief

Finding joy in anticipation, of excitement of the unknown. The combined joy and sadness of memories of loved ones and treasured moments. Making work in a meditative state, relying on the interaction with the material to inform aesthetic decisions.

In Japanese architecture a house is designed to allow places for shadows to fall. In the silence of these shadow spaces the presence of the dead can be acknowledged and felt. Where in our lives do we allow shadows of our dead to fall across us?

A guided photographic exploration into the continued collaboration of past and future relationships with the people we have lost, and/or our journey with grief. 

A making session using music to create a cyclical and meditative space.

Davina’s workshop invitation was to find an object that speaks to you of absence and/or loss.

A workshop using water as a metaphor for remembering emotional states.

A visual thinking exercise and making-response workshop that facilitates spontaneous mark making.

A correspondence exchange between participants using anonymous prompts to provoke visual reponses.