Day: 3 August 2025

Together with my friend, colleague, and Luna Arts co-founder Wendy Pye, I’ll be running two creative workshops that open space to talk about death and dying.

Funded by Arts Council England, these sessions are part of our R&D project: Opening Conversations on Mortality Through Creativity.

We’re offering two different workshops — details and booking links are below.
All profits will go directly to St Michael’s Hospice.

Workshop 1: Cloth and Memory Workshop: Reclaiming the Ritual of Shroud
Making 

Sat 20 Sep 2025 11:00 AM – 4:30 PM

St Michael’s Hospice, TN38 0LB

https://www.tickettailor.com/events/lunaarts/1727829

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Workshop 2: Where Memories Live: Workshop on Place & Legacy

Sat 4 Oct 2025 11:00 AM – 4:30 PM

St Michael’s Hospice, TN38 0LB

https://www.tickettailor.com/events/lunaarts/1727887

Buy tickets – Where Memories Live: Workshop on Place & Legacy – St Michaels HospiceVisual Artists Dagmara Rudkin & Wendy Pye (Luna Arts), invite you to reflect on the significance of place in your life – wh…www.tickettailor.com

I’m honoured and deeply moved that my shrouds have been named a finalist for the Good Funeral Awards.

This nomination brings hope that more people might be drawn to the quiet tenderness of a shroud, the softness of cloth, the natural cradle of a willow stretcher. A way of care that honours the body, soothes the grief of those left behind, and returns gently to the Earth.

I was deeply honoured to be invited by the Phoenix Art Space curatorial team, Laurence Hill and Lucy Day, to recreate Feministo Collated Sculpture—originally made by pioneering feminist artist Monica Ross. This commission, funded by the Monica Ross Archive, revisits a work that was sadly destroyed in the 1980s, as so many artists’ works are, due to lack of storage.

While I aimed to stay faithful to the original, it felt more important to honour Monica’s creative sensibility: working with found and salvaged materials, garments that speak of domesticity, patriarchy, and women’s lives. I created 16 panels, drilled 440 holes, and used 60 metres of nylon string to assemble them.

Huge thanks to the Phoenix team and to Monica’s family, Alice Ross and Bernard G. Mills, for their support. The exhibition Monica Ross: Unquiet Woman exploring Monica’s practice and legacy runs at Phoenix Art Space until the end of August 2025.

Monica Ross: Unquiet Woman