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What I Might Have Said 13th October 2015 at White Cloth Gallery Part of Love Arts Leeds, in aid of Acorn Committee

Amazingly emotive and educating evening! I came away feeling really thoughtful and I think art should do that to you - make you see things in different ways

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What I Might Have Said Love Arts Festival 13th October 2015, White Cloth Gallery Leeds

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The full Love Arts Festival programme 2015, featuring 'What I Might Have Said'

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A Series of Unexpected Events is an online exhibition as part of the London Arts in Health Forum’s Creativity and Wellbeing Week 4 - 12 June 2015, brought to you by The Well Made Project.

A Series of Unexpected Events features the work of a select group of artists whose practice relates to the themes of health and human nature. Throughout the course of the week a story will unfold, told each day by a different artist using a different medium.

The exhibition aims to explore the idea that life is made up of a series of unexpected events that impact upon our wellbeing, each different and often irregular but of equal importance to us. Although each work has its own narrative, we have constructed our own posing each day as a separate event in one persons life.

We hope to bring a little bit of magic to the everyday and help people reconnect with the act of storytelling.

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Day 9: Short Way Down One step away, and he’s out of this world, rigged sails unfurled, over jagged, ragged rock roosts dumbstruck, too late for regrets… This has become, for some at least The Journey of a Lifetime. It did for him. It wouldn’t do for me. Isabel White

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Day 9: She Caught A Glimpse Antoinette Brown

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Day 8: One Eye Still Works Ricki Nerreter

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Day 7: Nourish (Gemma and Leo) Jodie Silverman

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Day 6: Insula Daniel Regan

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Day 5: Telephone Call Joyce Grenfell

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Day 4: Not All Wounds Are Visible Louisa Hammond

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Day 3: Helen’s twenty-first (1980s)

Helen’s twenty-one today. She’s opted for a quiet do. In fact, she’s decided to stay in bed! Let’s join her on this happy day.

Her friends and family have come to her bedside, bearing gifts. Jana’s given her a red Yves Saint Laurent lipstick. Rita and Nab have given her a compact stereo. Ivan’s given her a dressing gown from Miss Selfridge – a print of white cotton covered in red kisses – and a bottle of Rive Gauche. Sean’s given her Flaubert’s Parrot, Julian Barnes’ new book. Granny and Grandad have given her £25. Brian’s given her a table with squint legs that he made at woodwork. Peter’s sent her a huge basket of Body Shop goodies. She has lots of cards with a dual message: Congratulations on the key of the door! Get well soon!

She thanks everyone politely. Her arms and legs are injected with poison. She doesn’t have the strength to peel an orange.

Rita has made beef stroganoff and fresh cream meringues. Helen has her birthday meal on a tray in bed. She has a sip of champagne.

Jana sits with her and makes her put on her new lipstick. Helen feels like a clown, a grotesque invalid wearing bright red lipstick and titanium earrings.

Extract from ‘The State of Me’

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