Tag: Remembrance

• Amy Winehouse, Patron Saint of Camden

  

  Today marks the fifth anniversary of Amy Winehouse’s death. In tribute, Death & the Maidens’ own Lucy Talbot reflects on first hearing the news and celebrates Amy’s legacy by examining the impact her passing had on the place she loved most. Gone but never forgotten. We love you Amy.

  Death and the Maiden

  23/07/2016

  Lucy Coleman Talbot

  Amy Winehouse, Anniversary, Artist, Camden, Celebrate, Celebrity, Celebrity Death, Celebrity Mourning, Deadmaidens, Death, Graffiti, Icon, Iconography, Imagery, Impact, Legend, Music, Musician, Religious Symbolism, Remembrance, Street Art, The 27 Club, Tribute

• 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

• Saying Goodbye the Alternative Way

  Alternative funerals are unique to the deceased person and a tribute to the individual person rather than to a mass followed religion. Themed funerals, green and natural funerals, Gothic and Steampunk funerals, Rock ‘n’ Roll funerals, biker funerals and any other kinds of funerals which centre on the life of the person, and break with…

  Death and the Maiden

  28/09/2015

  Guest Post

  Alternative Funerals, Celebrate, Choice, Coffins, Creativity, Deadmaidens, Funeral Photography, Funerals, Gothic, Grief, Individual, Mourning, Natural Burial, Remembrance, Ritual, Steam Punk, Themes, Tradition

• Fears, Hopes & Dreams

  Grief and loss are a natural part of life, but we can never estimate the impact it will have on our day to day lives, it walks with us every day. When people truly disrupt our lives in both positive and negative ways they are never forgotten, they grow with us and shape us. I…

  Death and the Maiden

  13/07/2015

  Guest Post

  Art, Artist, Ballet, Beauty, Bereavement, Change, Creation, Deadmaidens, Death, Death and the Maiden, Design, Emotion, Fabric, Grief, Loss, Love, Memories, Pain, Print Design, Reflection, Remembrance, Textiles

• Lost Souls

  This week features one of Death & the Maiden’s favourite shops. Samantha Lyn owner of Funereal Ephemera collects postmortem photographs, memorial cards, funeral photographs and cemetery photographs. They’re forgotten, only to be revealed generations later, to modern eyes with a modern sense of death and mourning. A piece of history lost and found again. Samantha sees those…

  Death and the Maiden

  09/05/2015

  Guest Post

  Art, Beauty, Bereavement, Deadmaidens, Death, Family, Funeral, History, Memorial Cards, Mourning, Photography, Postmortem, Remembrance, Respect, Victorian

• Perfume of the Dead

  S. Elizabeth discusses the scent of death. Perfumes, oils, and other fragrances played a key role in the process of mummifying a body for burial, as well as denoting what status the person held in life. Scents of loss, grief, passage, and remembrance -perfumers and artistic noses have certainly attempted to create  fragrances based around these timeless…

  Death and the Maiden

  08/05/2015

  Guest Post

  Deadmaidens, Death, Fragrance, Funeral, Lush, Marketing, Perfume, Poetic, Products, Remembrance, Ritual, Scent, Seduction, Sex, Women