Exploring the links between personal grief narratives in art and contemporary bereavement theories

在我们生命中的某个时刻，我们都会经历丧亲之痛。这个项目将把当代丧亲理论应用到一个艺术的背景中。主要的焦点是这些理论如何被用来分析和解释丧亲之痛，因为在艺术家的工作室内，通过非治疗的背景下，而不是通过艺术治疗进行的艺术作品中所代表的。我将运用社会学的丧亲理论和当代艺术的叙事、记忆、自我等概念，进行一项基于实践的跨学科研究，探索艺术家如何通过艺术实践来描绘个人的悲伤叙事。这个项目将研究艺术实践如何传达损失，同时帮助重新谈判我们与已故亲人的联系。与艺术家谁是工作与丧亲叙事的采访将形成研究的核心部分。关键组件将进行，以帮助理解和建立艺术背景和丧亲理论之间的联系，并将包括对其他艺术家和本研究的一部分制作的关于丧亲的艺术品的分析。该项目还将探讨在非治疗性环境中制作的艺术品如何帮助艺术家通过他们的实践来管理个人悲伤，以及这是否会改变艺术实践。在我的纺织品学士学位期间，我对艺术和心理健康问题之间的联系产生了兴趣，特别是在我最后一年，我探索了好奇心和强迫症之间的联系。在我的硕士期间，我学习了丧亲理论及其在美术中的应用，研究重复和手写之间的潜在联系，作为一种关键的实践方法。我的硕士学位为我攻读博士学位做好了准备，作为课程的一部分，我完成了研究方法（81%），关键职位（76%）和项目设计（73%）的模块，这些模块教会了我如何规划研究项目。我还完成了一个主要项目模块（75%），这要求我提出一个展览和论文的实践工作的成品。在我的硕士学位快结束的时候，我有机会发表我的硕士论文。在完成我的硕士学位之后，我用这些技能继续我的独立研究和艺术实践。我在柏林参加了为期6周的居住（2018），与子结构损失中心一起创作了处理悲伤研究的艺术品。居住在一个群展（“无形的重量留下”）的高潮，我继续与中心和我的居住同行有很强的联系。

At some point in our lives we will all experience a bereavement. This project will apply contemporarybereavement theories to a fine art context. The primary focus is how these theories can be used toanalyse and explain bereavement as represented in artworks undertaken through a non-therapeuticcontext within the artist's studio and not through art therapy. I will carry out a practice-basedinterdisciplinary study using sociological bereavement theories and contemporary art concepts ofnarrative, memory and the self, exploring how artists depict personal grief narratives through their artpractice. This project will examine how art practice can communicate loss, while helping to renegotiatethe connections we have with deceased loved ones.Interviews with artists who are working with bereavement narratives will form a core part of the research.Critical components will be undertaken to help with understanding and establishing links between artisticcontexts and bereavement theories, and will include analyses of artworks concerning bereavementproduced both by other artists and as part of this research. The project will also explore how artworksmade in non-therapeutic settings can aid artists with the management of personal grief through theirpractice and whether or not this changes art practice.I developed interests in drawing links between the arts and mental health issues during my BA in Textiles,particularly in my final year where I explored links between cabinets of curiosities and obsessive-compulsive disorders. During my MA I studied bereavement theory and its application within fine art,researching potential links between repetition and handwriting as a key practice-based method.My MA has prepared me for undertaking a PhD and as part of the course I completed modules inResearch Methods (81%), Critical Positions (76%) and Project Design (73%) which taught me how to plana research project. I also completed a Major Project module (75%) which required me to present afinished piece of practice work for exhibition and a thesis. Towards the end of my MA, I was offered theopportunity for my MA dissertation to be published.After completing my MA, I used these skills to continue my independent research and art practice. I tookpart in a 6-week residency (2018) in Berlin with the Centre for Substructured Loss creating artworkdealing with grief research. The residency culminated in a group exhibition ('The Immaterial Weight LeftBehind'), and I continue to have strong connections with the Centre and my residency peers.