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Former City Lit Student Hosts First Solo Exhibition for International Women’s Day
Artist and former City Lit student Susannah Goulding is hosting her first solo exhibition in celebration of International Women’s Day this year. ‘This Delightful Woman’ features art produced over the past five years following the artist’s diagnosis with incurable metastatic cancer.
The exhibition is multi-disciplinary, featuring sculpture, painting, photography, film, sound, collage and poetry. It kicks off in the City Lit Gallery with a private viewing on Thursday 29th February and runs until Saturday 16th March.
On International Women’s Day (Friday 8th March), Susannah will be hosting an artist talk to discuss her work. There will also be a spoken word performance from Goulding’s accompanying book, ‘This Delightful Woman’, written by the poet and psychoanalyst Julia Evans in collaboration with the artist.
‘This Delightful Woman’ by Susannah Goulding
‘This Delightful Woman’ is centred around how patients receiving treatment for cancer are addressed, treated, and spoken about. The exhibition looks to reframe the dialogue around cancer patients and empowerment in medical contexts. It puts emphasis on a patient’s autonomy: someone living with cancer can be an active participant in care and treatment rather than a ‘passive’ victim.
The exhibition speaks to Susannah’s own experience living with cancer. The title itself, ‘This Delightful Woman’ references how an oncologist first notified her of her diagnosis with breast cancer. It reflects wider themes in her work. With honesty and authenticity, she aims to re-address the language of cancer by opening new, personal, and questioning visual and textual dialogue that expresses authentic lived experience.
In her words, “I explore both the experience of a liminal space, between the disease, its pathology and its treatment.”
It also resonates with the theme of International Women’s Day this year – ‘Inspire inclusion’. Susannah’s art champions the need for a patients’ voice, feelings, perceptions and participation to be included within medical care.
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