About

Songs of Lamentation is an installation by artist Bea Denton that she has created specifically to be viewed through the windows of the Summer House in the northwest corner of the grounds at Charlton House. Large-scale hanging artworks will depict haunting images drawn from photographs found in cemeteries around the world, with a focus on the eyes, the window of the soul.

On March 23rd Bea will give an artist’s talk about her work in the Old Library at Charlton House, followed by a Death Café co-hosted by Bea and Tamsin Grainger, a community artist in Edinburgh and author of Death and Loss in Shiatsu Practice.

Death Cafés are an opportunity to talk about death over tea and cake in a welcoming and supportive space. Both the talk and Death Café are open to all and can be booked via Eventbrite.

* This exhibition is supported by an Arts Council Grant.

About Bea Denton: 
Bea is an artist and educator whose practice explores ideas around ritual and remembrance, death and loss. Photography, printmaking, found materials and lost images are intrinsic to her creative process. She and has exhibited widely, including publicly-sited work. She won the 2009 Creekside Open prize selected by Jenni Lomax; the 2007 Deptford X MacDonald Egan Award for Public Art, and the 2002 Ardizzone Prize (Major) for Printmaking. She has taught and managed pre-degree courses at Central Saint Martins, in Brazil and China. She is a Trustee for Lewisham Education Arts Network (LEAN), a mentor for Arts Emergency and a member of the Artist’s Group, Throes of Grief.

About Royal Greenwich Heritage Trust
Royal Greenwich Heritage Trust is a registered charity, formed in 2014 to look after key structures, objects, and historic records within the Royal Borough of Greenwich. Assets in the Trust’s care include Charlton House & Gardens, Charlton Assembly Rooms, Tudor Barn, and the Museum Collections & Archive of the Royal Greenwich, as well as memorials across the Borough. Its aim is to ensure the future of the Royal Greenwich’s rich heritage whilst bringing that heritage to life for everyone, through exhibitions, tours, walks and activities.