To live in hearts of those we love is not to die Whilst researching and developing the work for Neither Use Nor Ornament exhibition I have, over the past few months, been going through letters and other documents that relate to William Joseph Jackson (Bill), my Mum’s brother and had he lived my only Uncle. Bill is one of the 5 people who my latest work ‘Time is a Healer’ is a response to. The impact of his death in 1944 still resonates through my family and also, I recently d

Today is Battle of Britain Day. An annual commemoration of the battle in the UK with this year being the 75th anniversary. My family archive contains many documents and newspapers that reference both the First and Second World Wars and whilst I mostly refer to the archive as Clarice’s archive this is actually rather misleading. My grandmother, Miriam Verena Edwards (nee Spratling) was Clarice’s sister and it is the documents, newspapers, objects, letters, cards and photograph