False Hope
Carl Barker
Prose
The complexities of diagnosis and prognosis following a sudden bereavement
Distance
Richard Jones
Poetry
Poignant musings about the student’s younger sister and potentially diminishing bonds
Touch
Samantha Bandara
Photography
A dying elderly man being comforted by his wife at his hospital bedside – discussion around withholding further medical intervention
Brother and Sister
Sarah Wake
Painting
Painting of the artist as a child with her sibling, from a long-lost photograph and this image becoming a talisman for the extended family
Some Kind of Miracle
Anonymous
Prose
Narrative from the perspective of a child about her terminally-ill mother coming home from hospital for Xmas, then remaining in remission for several years
Hearts
Sarah Saunders
Collage
Ninety-two paper hearts to represent the loss of the artist’s father to heart disease
Sketchbook
Christine
Drawing
Christine began documenting her environment in a sketchbook between group sessions and later moved towards imagined possibilities and cherished goals
My Life
Lesley
Poetry
A word and textile tribute to ‘The Heart’
The Streets of London
Lorna
Painting
A familiar piece of music suddenly resonated powerfully with Lorna opening welcome appreciation of other ways of being
Solar Eclipse of the Eye
Celestine Weegenaar
Painting
Living with acquired tetraplegia leads a student to re-consider the nature of embodiment – ‘after meeting Peter I question the need for our body at all’
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