Tag: Mourning Practice

• 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

  Guest Post

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

• Keening & the Death Wail

  S Elizabeth interviews musician Gemma Fleet of The Wharves on her project “Lost Voices” which explores vocal improvisation in folk culture. Volume 1. “Keening and the Death Wail” has roots in Fleet’s own childhood. She believes she encountered an Irish traveler funeral; an “unhindered display of grief” wherein the woman in mourning was not being hushed,…

  Death and the Maiden

  02/05/2016

  Guest Post, Interview

  Art, Collective Sorrow, Culture, Deadmaidens, Death, Death Wails, Gemma Fleet, Grief, History, Laments, Language, Mourning, Mourning Practice, Music, The Wharves, Tradition, Voices

• 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

  Guest Post

  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