THE death of a loved one affects people in different ways.

When Carolyn Savidge's husband died from cancer, she found solace in the inspirational landscape surrounding their home in the Mendip Hills.

For Carolyn, a performance artist, choreographer and writer, being immersed in her surroundings became inseparable from the narrative of her husband’s decline and eventual death, and in turn produced a permanent artistic vision and memorial to his life.

The wind, the mist, the landscape, the sound of her husband’s breath, the monstrous artefacts surrounding his treatment, the forbidding anonymity of the hospital, the spoken word even though his voice was lost – all this and more find expression in the work, called, Embrace DNR.

The interactive work will be exhibited daily at The Princess Theatre in Burnham, culminating in a workshop and conversation where Carolyn.

The Embrace is a wide-ranging bringing together of pivotal images, sculpture, text and electronically-derived sound. Carolyn’s intention in creating these visionary artworks has been to open her experiences to wider scrutiny.

By gathering together and incorporating recorded interviews, responses, images and story, Embrace DNR creates an authentic sense of presence and familiarity in new locations and spaces, enabling audiences and individuals to immerse themselves in considering new-found realities, and to walk, and identify, and find something to cling on to.

Tuesday, July 12 to Friday, July 15. 10am-3pm in the Arts Lounge. Workshop, Friday, July 15 at 7.30pm.