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When Your Worst Fear Is Realised
Three months ago, Bryony's life changed forever. Three months on, she reflects on the moment her world was ripped apart, how it links her to childhood fears and a new found sense of invincibility...
https://deadmaidens.com/2019/07/15/when-your-worst-fear-is-realised/
Handling Death
Susan Elaine Jones invites you to spend time with human remains, her own interactions with skulls and bones have allowed her to engage beyond the scientific, a warm and enriching experience. Here...
Making a Mourner: The Life, Love and Grief of Courtney Lane
Hairwork Artist, Courtney Lane explains the Victorian tradition of sentimental hairwork and her lifelong fascination with it. It’s just as easy to chalk it up to a series of peculiar happenstan...
https://deadmaidens.com/2019/02/28/making-a-mourner-the-life-love-and-grief-of-courtney-lane/
Art is Not About Pretty Things
Artist Sara Lucas challenges us to see the transience in beauty. Three years on from her breast cancer diagnosis she reflects on the moment her priorities changed. A few fashion magazines and mar...
https://deadmaidens.com/2019/01/31/art-is-not-about-pretty-things/
Nothingness, Acceptance, Resurrection: Creating a Second Life
By Mia-Jane Harris My work delves into the curious, fascinatingly odd and morbidly beautiful. I make intriguing juxtapositions between the gorgeous and the macabre, aiming to intrigue the viewer...
https://deadmaidens.com/2018/08/20/nothingness-acceptance-resurrection-creating-a-second-life/
The Vampire’s Flight
Claire L. Smith is back with another beautiful work of poetry. This time she explores the fragility of human mortality through a familiar figure... "She watched in a darkened awe, As in the dove�...
Maiden’s Bloom: The Art of Emilia Olsen
Olsen’s faceless maidens, with their pink, sun-kissed flesh, confront their mortality and heartbreak with the age-old symbol of vanitas - a grinning, bleached skull. Much like Persephone draggi...
https://deadmaidens.com/2018/07/16/maidens-bloom-the-art-of-emilia-olsen/
From Parlor Tricks to Primetime: Fame, Gender, and the History of Ghost Hunting
When you read the words ghost hunter, what kind of person springs to mind? I’ll wager many of you picture what I do: someone between the ages of 21 and 35, probably white, lit by the eerie glow...
“You must be very sensitive”
Artist Sarah Gay-O'Neill is here to explain that it's very easy to normalize pain when people in authoritative positions, like doctors, tell you everything is fine and ‘normal’…but is it no...
https://deadmaidens.com/2018/06/28/you-must-be-very-sensitive/