Textile and coal installation using portrait photography and dye sublimation printing to present a very small child’s glove, a vehicle for a black and white photograph of a young girl (daughter) alongside a very large chunk of Anthracite coal, mined from the Black Diamond Peacock seam at Onllwyn East Pit Opencast Coal Mine South Wales.

Cited by:
Martin, Colin, 'Death becomes art' The Lancet, Vol 385, p.2142, May 2015 (citation of my research)
Macbeth, Penny and Barber, Claire, ‘Outside: activating cloth to enhance the way we live’ Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014, pp.34 & 42
Barber, Claire, ‘Textiles, communication and politics’ conference, Nov 2014, Welcome Trust, London.

Presented research at:
West Dean College ‘Skill-based making in the contemporary art world’, July 2015 (research symposium)

'Art of bereavement' exhibition held in parallel with 'Trauma, grief, loss: the art of bereavement' conference, UCA Farnham, May 2015.

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