Tag: Art of Mourning

• Making a Mourner: The Life, Love and Grief of Courtney Lane

  

  Hairwork Artist, Courtney Lane explains the Victorian tradition of sentimental hairwork and her lifelong fascination with it. It’s just as easy to chalk it up to a series of peculiar happenstances in her life that led her here, but neither of these explanations tells the whole story.

  Death and the Maiden

  28/02/2019

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  Art, Art of Mourning, Courtney Lane, Creative, Creativity, Deadmaidens, Death, Hair & Now, Hairwork, Modern Mourning, Mourning, Mourning Jewellery, Mourning Practice, Victorian

• The Female in Mourning Jewels

  Hayden Peters, founder and creative director of Art of Mourning gives us an illustrated tour of female mourning jewellery. Exploring the mourning industry of the 16th-19th centuries we learn about different trends in design and how this reflects cultural attitudes and social norms of the time. From memento mori to locks of hair and cutting diamonds…

  Death and the Maiden

  29/02/2016

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  Art, Art of Mourning, Culture, Design, Fashion, Female, Female Idenity, Gender Roles, History, In Memory, Jewellery, Memento Mori, Mourning, Mourning Practice, Remembrance, Society, Trends, Visual