Tag: Faith

• Protest, politics & power: the tales of martyrs Anne Askew & Margaret Pole

  Nikki Shaill, Director of Art Macabre Death Drawing salons and Drawn at the Tower, discusses the lives and deaths of two female martyrs from English history. On Wednesday evening, an event will take place inviting guests to draw these figures on the site where they were both executed and buried at Tower of London’s Chapel…

  Death and the Maiden

  14/11/2016

  Guest Post

  Anne Asknew, Art, Art Macabre, Death, Death Drawing, Drawn at the Tower, Execution, Faith, History, Lozzy Bones Art, Margaret Pole, Martyrs, Religion, The Tower of London

• The Ascent of Female Funeral Celebrants

  I find myself wondering what this line of work is like for all of the other women who choose to walk this path? How do I take the complexities and subtle communication skills that I have honed, and use and embody as a funeral celebrant, and express them to others in such a way that…

  Death and the Maiden

  10/08/2015

  Guest Post

  British Columbia, Canada, Career, Celebrant, Ceremonies, Change, Deadmaidens, Death, Emotion, Eulogy, Experiences, Faith, Family, Funeral, Funeral Celebrant, Grief, Loss, Research, Spirituality, Tradition, Visual Ethnography, Women