Tag: Exhibition

• Maiden’s Bloom: The Art of Emilia Olsen

  

  Olsen’s faceless maidens, with their pink, sun-kissed flesh, confront their mortality and heartbreak with the age-old symbol of vanitas – a grinning, bleached skull. Much like Persephone dragging the lush flora down with her descent into Hades, Olsen’s subjects embrace the darkest part of their ego within a state of botanic euphoria.

  Death and the Maiden

  16/07/2018

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  Art, Artist, Creative, Creativity, Death, Death and the Maiden, Doppelgänger, Doppelgänger Studio, Emilia Olsen, Exhibition, History, Love, New York, painting, Persephone, Symbolism

• A Celebration of Death

  Festival of Ian Smith, 28th October – 23rd December, 2017 at Edinburgh’s Summerhall is set to be an eclectic mix of art, music, performance and installation – all investigating, challenging, confronting or celebrating death. The festival explores why we often find it difficult to talk about death in our society, and how art and artists…

  Death and the Maiden

  07/11/2016

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  Angie Dight, Art, Choice, Culture, Deadmaidens, Death, Death Positive, Edinburgh, Engagement, Exhibition, Festival, Festival of Ian Smith, Funeral, Good Grief, Grief, Legacy, Loss, Mischief La Bas, Society