Dr. Jules Findley is a British artist who gained her PhD in materials from the Royal College of Art. Her practice emerges through looking at embodied materiality, substrates, and creating installations that involve affect. Studies in bereavement and the emotions that contribute to this life changing event have led to questioning in-depth areas of contemporary funeral rites, as well as sensitively exploring death of a loved one and an understanding of the emotions around grief. Research ideas from the wider context of grief and domesticity are conceptually formed through asking questions and in installations raising public awareness.
Focusing on the memorialisation and grief using material of paper, and elements such as fire, ash, water. The studies in bereavement have led to questioning in-depth areas of contemporary funeral rites, as well as sensitively exploring complicated grief and how mothers carry complicated grief of their loved one forward to grief reparation from a feminist perspective. Funereal rites, earth, layers and coverings are a part of this enquiry, looking at preparation for death using bespoke methods in practice and examining memorialisation using materials such as paper, substrates, resin, photography and film. Her installations have regularly been exhibited in international biennales, in Taiwan and in Shanghai, China, as well as nstionally.
‘Fragmentation: Materialising Mourning from Complicated Grief’ by Jules Findley
https://researchonline.rca.ac.uk/3465/
