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Projecting Grief Exhibition at Victoria Gate Leeds
National World - LocalTV
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18/08/2023
Jo Ritchie and Laura McDonagh discuss the ‘Projecting Grief’ exhibition in Victoria Gate which explores the relationship between loss, creativity and healing, ahead of the Leeds International Festival of Ideas.
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My name is Jo Ritchie and I'm the photographer behind Projecting Grief.
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And my name is Laura McDonagh and I am the interviewer and the writer for Projecting Grief.
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Projecting Grief is a project exploring the links between grief and creativity.
00:16
So we speak to people and I photograph people who are doing something creative with their grief,
00:23
who have been bereaved and who are either creating something specifically out of their grief
00:29
or are using creativity or some sort of creative practice or art form as a distraction or just as a comfort.
00:37
The project started when I lost my brother in 2017.
00:41
I, being a photographer, I couldn't see myself getting back to a creative headspace,
00:46
couldn't see going back into work and doing the job I'd done before.
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And I spoke to a lot of different people who were doing something creative with their grief
00:56
and I just found it so inspiring and a really interesting topic basically.
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So I started taking pictures, started taking their portraits.
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I heard about the project back in 2020 and I'd recently lost my mum quite suddenly.
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I think previously I'd been a bit of a frustrated creative, not a natural creative,
01:14
and I'd really got into writing as a way of kind of dealing with what I was going through at that time.
01:20
So I was featured on the project back in 2021 and then a year later Joe got in touch
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and asked if I would help out with some of the interviewing and the writing
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and felt it's such an impactful project and so important I was really happy to get involved.
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We heard a while ago that Liffey were planning as part of their festival to run a panel event
01:41
saying how do we talk about grief, they like to kind of kickstart these big conversations
01:47
and obviously that fed really well into what we were doing.
01:50
So there's some really big names on that panel event and as some build up to that, to start that conversation
01:56
they asked us if we would like to be involved and bring this exhibition from its kind of online home
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into the centre of Leeds to really encourage people to start having a conversation
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about loss and about bereavement and about ways of coping with that.
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We get a lot of messages saying how helpful they found the community,
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how helpful they found reading other people's stories, how interesting it is to look at other people's creative work.
02:23
So to bring it into the real world as it were, offline, hopefully we'll just be reaching even more people
02:32
who will be able to experience it and take similar hope and inspiration from it.
02:37
I think it would be easy to assume that an exhibition or a project that centres on grief could be quite depressing
02:44
and I hope that when people come in and experience it first hand that they have the opposite experience.
02:49
That's certainly been my experience being involved with the project.
02:53
It's actually really uplifting, it's really inspiring to see these people doing what they're doing creatively
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and what they're doing to get themselves through a tough time.
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