Andover: Caroline Perkins launches exhibition on grief

Caroline Perkins, who has a Master of Arts degree from the Royal College of Art, has opened her performance piece "Grief in Layers" at Unity Studios in the Chantry Centre in Andover.

The performance piece will be open "almost daily" until June 28.

The artist will be at the exhibition each day, where she will paint to express her grief, followed by covering the paint to obscure it.

(Image: Caroline Perkins)

She says the process of covering the initial paint represents how we learn to live with loss, as it is "sometimes hidden and sometimes breaking through into the open."

The painted wall, which will change daily, "serves as a visual metaphor for the fluctuations of grief."

Ms Perkins said: "This is not an act of forgetting. It is the choreography of survival."

The performance piece will be set to music loved by "Jonathan," which will transform the gallery space into "a living, breathing memorial."

(Image: Caroline Perkins) The exhibition will end with an artist talk on Saturday, June 28, at 4pm.

Caroline's work explores themes of memory, loss, and the human condition with "profound sensitivity and emotional depth."

For more information, visit carolineperkinsart.com.