Today we’re collaborating with a brilliant initiative to create posters/artwork to enter and encourage others to enter. We’ve seen some beautiful entries from OMBLES in responses to briefs like this one in the past and we are looking forward to see the powerful submissions being shared today.
About:
‘Modern Mourning’ is an open submission artwork brief put together by illustrators Lauren Doughty from bereavement support service Untangle Grief, and Poppy Chancellor from grief community The Griefcase. The project’s aim is to open up the taboo around death, dying and loss, by inviting you to create an artwork engaging with the subject.
Please tweet your entries to @OneMinuteBriefs and @UntangleGrief with the hashtag #UntangleGrief
You can also tag in @PoppyChancellor and @LaurenDoughty
Prize:
Winner/s: Your work will be featured on the Untangle Grief website as well as on various social channels.
Brief:
Please join our conversation! Break the taboo around death by entering your artistic interpretation of 'Modern Mourning’.
We know the topic can feel scary in many ways - perhaps you have never thought about it much, perhaps you have experienced a bereavement closely. During the pandemic, loss is sadly in the forefront of our collective minds more-so than before. The experience of a loss can be overwhelming, and difficult to know how to process let alone express what you’re feeling, especially in the early stages.
We’d love to hear from a wide range of people with diverse experiences. Your artwork could be based on personal experience as a way to express your feelings around it, it could be a musing on the concept of mortality, grief and mourning. Or it could be in response to societal ideas around death and mourning - anything goes, and we’d love to see your interpretation.
Submit an artwork which is either A4 or A3 in size. Illustration, painting, drawing, collage, photography and poetry welcome!
See some of the previous entries and find out how to submit yours here:
https://www.untanglegrief.com/modern-mourning
A little more about Untangle Grief
Every significant loss comes with secondary losses to relationships, health and finances. It’s hard to find good help at the time you need it most. This leaves people feeling lonely and overwhelmed - in addition to their grief. Untangle makes it easier to rebuild life after loss by offering emotional & practical help in one place, and everything we do is designed with and for our community.
A little more about The Griefcase
Griefcase is a space where people share their experience of losing a loved one through writing, art and informal discussion. Their monthly meet-ups encourage people to share about grief and how it impacts their lives. They aim to provide a non-judgemental space based in compassionate listening.
Griefcase was created at the beginning of 2019, when a group of friends met to remember those they had lost. As the meet ups grew, an online community started to emerge as people began sharing their writings, drawings and experiences.
LINKS
Untangle
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/untanglegrief/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/untanglegrief
Twitter: https://twitter.com/laurendoughty
Twitter: https://twitter.com/PoppyChancellor
Please see an example of the illustrator's works, who we invited to start the conversation. From the top left to right is; Naomi Anderson-Subryan, Benedict Leader, Lynnie. Z, Clare Lewis, fandangoekid, Jess Nash, Charles Bailey, Ed Cheverton and Jayde Perkin.
