Exhibition | Memento Mori - Ute Braatz, Sian Carlyon and Jess Millicent

Artists, Ute Braatz, Sian Carlyon and Jess Millicent, explore different contemporary printmaking techniques and their reflections on what makes our existences worth living.

The exhibition is based on the historical artistic trope of ‘memento mori’ (remember that you will die) – that life is fleeting – and so we should ‘carpe diem’ (seize the day)! Reinterpreting a long-standing historical artistic practice dating from Roman times through to contemporary ‘still life’, provides opportunities for commentary on social mores. Death is almost a friendly spectre on the periphery, but it is the ultimate social leveller.