Memory Palace is a short documentary capturing the everyday routine of a dementia patient in a nursing home. It is a portrait of a fading memory. The installation is not only an invitation to submerge in a journey to the past and nostalgia, but more importantly, to reflect about the cruel reality of dementia and…
“Forget Me Not" is a new composition by Somerset composer Marc Yeats. After spending time with patients with cognitive impairment such as dementia on wards at Yeovil and Dorset County Hospitals, Marc has created a choral installation with Choir By the Sea which evokes fragments of conversation, memories of place and a sense of what…
In her series of works ‘The Dementia Darnings’, Jenni Dutton has taken images of her mother who had dementia and reproduced them as large scale portraits in wool and thread. The portraits reflect the ageing process as well as the erosive effect of the illness on the individual. The threads are sewn through fine netting…