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‘This Delightful Woman' Exhibition at City Lit
City Lit Gallery are proud to present the exhibition ‘This Delightful Woman’, the first solo show by artist Susannah Goulding, featuring art produced over the past 5 years following the artist’s diagnosis with incurable metastatic cancer.
Susannah Goulding’s visceral, poignant and prolific artistic practice explores and expresses her ongoing experience of living with cancer. With honesty and authenticity, she aims to re-address the language of cancer by opening new, personal, and questioning visual and textual dialogue that expresses authentic lived experience. She works directly with medical imagery, creative records of her hospital treatments, and the emotional, psychological, and embodied experience.
“I explore both the experience of a liminal space, between the disease, its pathology and its treatment.”
The title ‘This Delightful Woman’ directly references the term of address used within the first letter from the artist’s oncologist notifying her of her diagnosis with breast cancer and frames the exhibition in relation to Susannah’s interests in the language and dialogue around those living with significant ill health.
Susannah’s powerful imagery and sensitive explorations across a range of media give voice and presence to the human experience of medical care, harnessing creative work to empower in a situation where those undergoing treatment may feel like a passive recipient (Should this say ‘victim?)’of diagnoses and medical interventions.
“My artistic practice is now part of my life, the hospital and art studio work in harmony with each other, where making and the medical merge”.
In bringing aesthetic expression and form to the often-unseen internal experience of cancer, audiences are invited to engage, reflect on, feel and contribute to dialogue around a disease that touches the lives of everybody at some point in their life.
Susannah Goulding’s visceral, poignant and prolific artistic practice explores and expresses her ongoing experience of living with cancer. With honesty and authenticity, she aims to re-address the language of cancer by opening new, personal, and questioning visual and textual dialogue that expresses authentic lived experience. She works directly with medical imagery, creative records of her hospital treatments, and the emotional, psychological, and embodied experience.
“I explore both the experience of a liminal space, between the disease, its pathology and its treatment.”
The title ‘This Delightful Woman’ directly references the term of address used within the first letter from the artist’s oncologist notifying her of her diagnosis with breast cancer and frames the exhibition in relation to Susannah’s interests in the language and dialogue around those living with significant ill health.
Susannah’s powerful imagery and sensitive explorations across a range of media give voice and presence to the human experience of medical care, harnessing creative work to empower in a situation where those undergoing treatment may feel like a passive recipient (Should this say ‘victim?)’of diagnoses and medical interventions.
“My artistic practice is now part of my life, the hospital and art studio work in harmony with each other, where making and the medical merge”.
In bringing aesthetic expression and form to the often-unseen internal experience of cancer, audiences are invited to engage, reflect on, feel and contribute to dialogue around a disease that touches the lives of everybody at some point in their life.
‘THIS DELIGHFUL WOMAN’ TIMETABLE
Private View & Book Launch - Thursday 29th February, 18:00-21:00
‘This Delightful Woman’: Susannah Goulding - Artist Talk for International Women’s Day – Friday 8th March, time TBC, Cultureplex
This Delightful Woman: Spoken Word Performances for International Women’s Day – Friday 8th March, 18:30-19:30, City Lit Gallery
Private View & Book Launch - Thursday 29th February, 18:00-21:00
‘This Delightful Woman’: Susannah Goulding - Artist Talk for International Women’s Day – Friday 8th March, time TBC, Cultureplex
This Delightful Woman: Spoken Word Performances for International Women’s Day – Friday 8th March, 18:30-19:30, City Lit Gallery
Keeley Street, Covent Garden, London WC2B 4BA
Thu 29 Feb to Sat 16 March
Website:
www.citylit.ac.uk