exhibitions
& workshops
We’re passionate about getting Projecting Grief out into communities and giving people a safe space to explore their experiences of grief and engage in creative practice. If we could support you or your organisation by hosting an exhibition, series of workshops - or if you have another idea for a collaboration - we’d love to hear from you.
We’ve collaborated with many organisations, institutions and venues including Leeds Playhouse, Leeds International Festival of Ideas (LIFI), Thackray Museum of Medicine, NHS Greater Manchester, the University of York and the Diocese of York. See below for more details for specific events.
“The collective power of the stories and images is incredibly moving…it made me feel less alone.”
We have a portable exhibition of portraits mounted on aluminium dibond to gallery/museum standards available for hire, either as a complete set or in part. We also have a set of freestanding, double-sided exhibition panels suitable for short-term ‘pop-up’ exhibitions at venues where fixing portraits to a wall isn’t possible.
We can facilitate a wide range of creative workshops for groups of all sizes led by people with lived experience of bereavement. We’re also happy to speak at conferences, webinars or on podcasts. We believe that creativity is powerful, and that it’s for everyone. With this in mind, we strive to work as inclusively as we can, with as much co-creation and as few barriers to participation as we can possibly manage.
To enquire about hiring and event facilitation, email projectinggrief@gmail.com.
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thackray museum of medicine
We exhibited a selection of our portraits at Thackray Museum of Medicine for 12 months. As part of this collaboration, we were commissioned to create four new grief and creativity stories from the East Leeds and Leeds medical community and ran a creative workshop.
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Picturing Grief - University of York
The University of York commissioned us to create Picturing Grief: a series of photographs and text inspired by their Grief Survey, a rich, searchable database of first-person testimonies of grief gathered through an online qualitative survey.
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nhs greater manchester
We exhibited in Manchester’s Trafford Centre to promote NHS Greater Manchester’s bereavement support services during Dying Matters Week. We also launched three new stories from members of the Sing Their Name choir and facilitated creative writing and collaging workshops.
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leeds international festival of ideas
We exhibited 37 portraits from the Projecting Grief collection as part of LIFI in 2023. The exhibition took place in Victoria Leeds before moving to Leeds Playhouse ahead of a panel event featuring Prue Leith, Will Young and other guests. We facilitated a series of creative workshops and a spoken word poetry event.
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Photo North Festival
Projecting Grief was selected to take part in Photo North Festival 2025. Our work was paired with and exhibited alongside ‘The Darkest Hour’ - an exhibition about people who have “contemplated suicide and found their way to a better place” by acclaimed photographer Harry Borden.
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dead good stretford
We were asked to exhibit Projecting Grief as part of Dead Good Stretford: three days of death-positive workshops and sessions including poetry and eulogy writing, film screenings and embroidering memory hoops.
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york festival of ideas
We facilitated a pop-up exhibition for York Festival of Ideas at St Saviourgate in York. We also gave a talk about the background and purpose behind the project alongside academics from the university of York and Hayley Mills-Style, textile artist and PG sitter.
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barmby moor churches
We exhibited Projecting Grief for five weeks in St Catherine’s, Barmby Moor, East Yorkshire, attracting visitors from across the diocese. We also ran a Doodle Chat session and a memory hoop embroidery workshop for local people to access free of charge.
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LS14 trust
We exhibited a selection of portraits from Projecting Grief in the LS14 Trust café in Seacroft, Leeds. We also gave a talk about the project as part of a Death Café event with the Seacroft Hookers crochet, knitting and craft group.