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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220930T180000
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URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/open-eye-gallery-in-conversation
 -photography-on-wellbeing/
SUMMARY:Open Eye Gallery: Open Eye Gallery: In Conversation: Photography on
  Wellbeing
DESCRIPTION:IN CONVERSATION: PHOTOGRAPHY ON WELLBEING\nFRIDAY 30 SEPTEMBER 
 / 6–8PM / OPEN EYE GALLERY\nFREE\, BOOK HERE\nPhotography on Wellbeing i
 s a collaboration between artists Nicola Lewis-Dixon and Marianne McGurk. 
 Their work explores the theme of wellbeing in photography through creative
  practice. Marianne and Nicola have addressed difficult times in their liv
 es\, Through their artistic practice they have used creativity and express
 ion as a tool to help them process trauma and grief.\nNicola and Marianne 
 formed Photography on Wellbeing as they both recognised that creativity ca
 n be a tool which can help us deal with and process emotions sometimes too
  difficult to verbalise. The aims of Photography on Wellbeing are to impro
 ve the wellbeing of people through creativity\, hosting workshops\, conver
 sations\, exhibitions and events.\n‘Collaborating on Photography on Well
 being is a way for us to take this work into the community\, share our res
 earch\, knowledge and understanding of creativity as a tool to improve wel
 lbeing.’\nNicola and Marianne will be discussing their latest projects\,
  ‘This is how she lives on’ and ‘Goosebumps’ and how they both use
 d photography as a cathartic act and how through their practice they came 
 to form the collaboration Photography on Wellbeing.\nMarianne McGurk’s p
 roject titled ‘This is how she lives on’ is a study on grief after the
  death of her mother. At its core it is anchored in loss and trauma\, but 
 what unfolded was an exploration into absence\, presence\, motherhood\, be
 auty\, fragility and metamorphosis. Through drawing\, sculpting and photog
 raphing her mother’s collection of lipsticks\, ephemera and memories Mar
 ianne faced the layers of trauma and grief surrounding her mother’s deat
 h.\n‘I have purposely dug up my grief. Exhumed the bones of it and picke
 d through its body\, to sit with it\, walk with it\, talk to it\, to be in
  the dark with it and ultimately to make art with it.’\nThe body of work
  questions the ways in which we memorialise our dead and looks at the ways
  in which we can process grief and trauma through artistic practice.\nNico
 la’s latest project titled Goosebumps explored her own healing journey a
 fter emergency hysterectomy and cancer treatment. Nicola took to foraging 
 and wild swimming as a way to reclaim and heal her broken body during the 
 lockdowns. Nicola recorded her swims with video and this became a catharti
 c act of reclaim\, both her mental and physical health soared.\n‘This pr
 oject was conceived by chance as I happen to admire my goosebumps during a
  fleeting moment captured on film. This simple act of survival gives me a 
 surge of warmth and appreciation after many years of cancer and infection 
 using my human form as a battleground subsequently resulting in an emergen
 cy hysterectomy. As I grieve my old body\, I feel a sense of loss. A loss 
 of femininity\, a de-sexualisation and a lack of maternity. My goosebumps 
 gave me a glimmer of hope for what the future could hold and an overwhelmi
 ng sense of gratitude that I was gifted with time to slowly adapt to my al
 ienated body and build an appreciation for what it could be’\nImage: Nic
 ola Lewis-Dixon
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