My research focusses on how contemporary bereavement theories can be applied within fine art contexts, focussing on how sociological theory can be used to analyse and explain bereavement as represented in artworks created in the non-therapeutic setting of an artist’s studio. 

By carrying out practice-based, interdisciplinary study using both bereavement theory and contemporary art contexts of narrative, memory and the self, I will explore who artists depict personal grief narratives through their practice, to examine not only how art practice can communicate loss but also how it can assist in the renegotiation of relationships, and processing of continuing bonds.