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A Graceful Death blog for Dying Matters and Other Fab Things I set up the exhibition a week today.  A week tomorrow, the exhibition opens, and in the evening we will host a small Opening Event, which will be filmed by EBS, Educational Broadcasting System, South Korea.

EBS are making a documentary in three parts to bring to the attention of the South Korean audience, the importance of not avoiding end of life discussions and preparations.  A Graceful Death is a very small part of their filming schedule, they are filming many different events during Dying Matters Awareness Week, and they are asking questions and listening to very eminent speakers in the UK on end of life matters.  The film crew, the producer and the organiser/translator from the documentary Docuprime were here in the studio yesterday filming and they are a good, professional, interesting and very high thinking outfit.  They flew in from South Korea to film in the UK, and we will see them again at the Opening Event next Tuesday.

I am delighted to have Dying Matters Association publish a blog about A Graceful Death, and in order for you to have instant access to it, click here -


The programme of events for this A Graceful Death week - to book your place please email Peter Wells on email@example.com or just turn up on the day. Posted by Antonia Rolls at Monday, May 12, 2014 No comments: Links to this post Antonia Rolls

I was always sure I was both an Artist and a Fairy when I was little.  Now, as an artist I don't need to be a Fairy any more.  I became a professional artist when my children were tiny, and have worked as a Commission Artist ever since, building up a client list of which I have been very proud. I live and work in a studio in my garden, and I have a huge family that would take up all my time if I were to visit each one of them.  I have three children that give me both happiness and a hard time.

After the death of my partner in 2007, I created an exhibition of paintings from the end of life, which tours the country promoting a much needed conversation on what it means to die.  The exhibition is called A Graceful Death.  I work on this wonderful exhibition with my colleague Eileen Rafferty, who uses film, recording and photography.  The exhibition includes portraits of those facing the end of their lives, and words to go with it, film and recording of conversations, and has now expanded to include poetry, music, drama, presentations and workshops.  I have trained as a Soul Midwife, and use this in my work for the A Graceful Death exhibition.  Soul Midwives are an emotional and spiritual companion for those facing the end of life, offering compassionate companionship at any point from diagnosis, to the final moments. The A Graceful Death exhibition enables us to see what it means to face the end of life, and that until someone dies, they are alive.  Dying is normal.  It is nothing to be ashamed nor afraid of, it is what happens in life. The exhibition is a full of life, and death, and love.
