The Mourning After Exhibition

The Mourning After exhibition invites people to explore grief in all its forms—as something felt, shared, and expressed through different rituals and creative practices. The exhibition offers space for reflection, connection, and conversation, with workshops that explore how creative methods can help us understand grief better. These range from personal experiences of loss to collective grief like mourning for the collective injustices and the healthy planet.

Throughout the exhibition, there are various forms and scales of grief and mourning—from the ecological grief (Hesterman, Ilyas, Berkowitz) and the Digital Anthropocene (Cope, Centre for Reworlding), anticipatory grief (Machine Listening), mourning as a collective/ connective ritual (Couzens, Clarke, The Death Letter Project) and grief as a lifelong companion (Frost Nicholson, Thoms, Mahoney). These works are invitations to reflect on different textures, scales and emotionalities of grief and mourning.

Through the artist’s works and workshops, The Mourning After offers a gentle invitation to reflect…