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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20220914
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20221031
DTSTAMP:20220917T124313Z
URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/open-eye-gallery-photography-on-
 wellbeing/
SUMMARY:Open Eye Gallery: Open Eye Gallery: Photography on Wellbeing
DESCRIPTION:PHOTOGRAPHY ON WELLBEING @ OPEN EYE GALLERY’S DIGITAL WINDOW 
 GALLERY\n14 SEPTEMBER - 30 OCTOBER 2022\nPhotography on Wellbeing is a col
 laboration between artists Nicola Lewis-Dixon and Marianne McGurk. Their
  work explores the theme of wellbeing in photography through creative prac
 tice. Marianne and Nicola have addressed difficult times in their lives\
 , through their artistic practice they have used creativity and expression
  as a tool to help them process trauma and grief.\nNicola and Marianne f
 ormed Photography on Wellbeing as they both recognised that creativity can
  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 improv
 e the wellbeing of people through creativity\, hosting workshops\, convers
 ations\, exhibitions and events.\n“Collaborating on Photography on Wellb
 eing is a way for us to take this work into the community\, share our rese
 arch\, knowledge and understanding of creativity as a tool to improve well
 being.”\nNicola and Marianne will be exhibiting their latest projects\
 , This is how she lives on and Goosebumps. Both projects explore how t
 he artists have used photography as a cathartic act\, through which they c
 ame to form the collaboration Photography on Wellbeing.\nMarianne McGurk
 ’s project titled This is how she lives on is a study on grief after t
 he death of her mother. At its core it is anchored in loss and trauma\, bu
 t what unfolded was an exploration into absence\, presence\, motherhood\, 
 beauty\, fragility and metamorphosis. Through drawing\, sculpting and phot
 ographing her mother’s collection of lipsticks\, ephemera and memories 
 Marianne faced the layers of trauma and grief surrounding her mother’s 
 death.\n“I have purposely dug up my grief. Exhumed the bones of it and p
 icked through its body\, to sit with it\, walk with it\, talk to it\, to b
 e in the dark with it and ultimately to make art with it”\nThe body of w
 ork questions the ways in which we memorialise our dead and looks at the w
 ays in which we can process grief and trauma through artistic practice.\nN
 icola’s latest project titled Goosebumps explored her own healing jour
 ney after emergency hysterectomy and cancer treatment. Nicola took to fora
 ging 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 cat
 hartic act of reclaim\, both her mental and physical health soared.\n“Th
 is project was conceived by chance as I happen to admire my goosebumps dur
 ing a fleeting moment captured on film. This simple act of survival gives 
 me a surge of warmth and appreciation after many months of cancer and infe
 ction using my human form as a battleground subsequently resulting in an e
 mergency 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 goose
 bumps gave me a glimmer of hope for what the future could hold and an over
 whelming sense of gratitude that I was gifted with time to slowly adapt to
  my alienated body and build an appreciation for what it could be”\nImag
 e: Nicola Lewis-Dixon
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LOCATION:Open Eye Gallery\, Mann Island\, Liverpool Waterfront\, Liverpool\
 , L3 1BP\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom
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