Death Writes: Images – Reading & Writing Death & Dying Symposium

Marchbank, Celine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-6254-9787 (2020) Death Writes: Images – Reading & Writing Death & Dying Symposium. In: Death Writes: Images – Reading & Writing Death & Dying Symposium, 22 January 2020, Glasgow Woman's Library, Glasgow.

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Abstract / Summary

The symposium held at the Glasgow Women’s Library and supported by the University of Glasgow’s Arts Lab funding and the Glasgow End of Life Studies Group. The focus of this interdisciplinary Arts-Lab is to hone critical and creative skills on the universal topic of death, dying and bereavement. We launched in 2019 to build a community of thinkers, writers, practitioners and makers who are interested in this subject and who want to generate collaborations across disciplines and contexts.

Keynote Speaker: Celine Marchbank

Abstract:

Celine Marchbank will present two interconnected bodies of photographic work that examine illness, loss, and mourning through intimate visual narratives. In 2010, following her mother’s diagnosis with terminal cancer, Marchbank began documenting the time they had left together. Rather than depicting physical decline, the resulting work focuses on the quiet details of the domestic environment, forming a tender and poetic account of presence and absence. This project was later published by Dewi Lewis Publishing as the photobook Tulip. After her mother’s death, Marchbank developed A Stranger in My Mother’s Kitchen, a multidisciplinary exploration of grief through photography, writing, and archival material. In this presentation, she reflects on creative practice as a method of processing grief and considers the implications of making personal experiences public.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Keynote)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	death, dying, bereavement, photography
Subjects:	Creative Art & Design Communication Communication > Creative Writing Health Photography Creative Art & Design > Photography Research
Department:	Institute of Photography
Related URLs:	Author
Depositing User:	Celine Marchbank
Date Deposited:	19 Mar 2026 13:58
Last Modified:	19 Mar 2026 13:58
URI:	https://repository.falmouth.ac.uk/id/eprint/6371

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