Grief must be Love with Nowhere to Go is a collaborative billboard commission for Bloc Projects by artists Chris Alton and Emily Simpson.
Over the last two years, the artists have been organising gatherings to explore the different emotional and linguistic aspects of grief – particularly bereavement – that are consciously life-affirming: what does life look and feel like after the death of someone or something dear?
Unreliable, complicated and persistent, Chris & Emily seek to demonstrate grief’s mutability in a billboard work that will similarly shift over its four-month lifespan. We invite you to pay it a visit every few weeks to check in on it, to tap into the many dimensions of the losses we harbour.
To find out more about how the artists’ own journey of bringing grief into their practices, listen to the audio available as a QR code in situ and on our website.
Installed outside our gallery space on Eyre Lane, it is available to view at any time of day from 23 Jan - 23 May.