Drawing the Last Breath: Portraits of My Father
Poignant exhibition at Conway Halls of drawings of his dying father by Daniel Fooks.
The pictures
record the final illness of Fooks father, Chris Fooks, who died aged 76. The
early pictures show a defiant face during chemotherapy but you gradually see
the person disappear in the death bed pictures.
These pictures
were in a room in which I was doing a one day workshop and I must admit they
were quite hard to sit with for that long. However I came back a week later for
another workshop and it was lovely to see them again. They became more
beautiful on a second look, once the shock value had worn off.
Closes on 31
March 2018
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