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Artworking - lighting a candle, arranging flowers, getting a tattoo, wood working, telling a story, stitching or making first steps on a project - has unique potential to provide solace, lessen isolation and open conversations. Through artworking we can experience, express and gradually transform grief and loss. In this deeply personal story, Annie Bolitho describes how, in artworking, she has found ways through her grief and loss and come to thrive. 'Artworking, honouring tremendous loss' also introduces the reader to many artists, musicians, theatre makers, poets and young people who have made work reflecting on loss through personal circumstance, oppression, disruption of societies and environmental disasters.

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'Rich and a pleasure to read, a tender celebration of the power of creativity to provide nourishment in even the bleakest moments.' Enza Gandolfo, textile artist and writer 'In this book it as if a friend materialises. Annie affirms that love doesn't end with death-it shifts. There is no right or wrong way to grieve, and the relationship can continue in powerful, unseen ways. Kelly Manning, artist 'The intimate vignettes in this book feel like whispered stories on an afternoon walk, transforming the lonely terrain of loss into wildflower bouquets of possibility we can pause with now or press between pages for later. Annie illuminates how we might bloom even when no path forward is evident.'​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Maya Haviland, Senior Research Fellow, Australian National University, co-creative and parent 'Annie Bolitho's book navigates the complex territories of grief with sensitivity toward the historical and current landscapes of colonisation, political violence, climate change, diversity, marginalisation and migration. She locates her personal and family narratives of loss, isolation and connection in ways that honour the specificity of her ancestry and culture. Annie weaves the fabric of this account from friendships, art, writing, and everyday interactions with the humans and 'earth others' she loves and re-members.' Sheridan Linnell, Assoc Prof Art Therapy, University of Western Sydney

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Annie Bolitho is a writer and artist who brings people together toappreciate life, strengthen connections and savour experience. Shedelights in friendship and community life, its people and stories.Annie has made books and learned from them since childhood.In her workshops and projects she uses this medium, along withnatural pigment painting, to help people to connect to place andcelebrate nature, in parks, by the river or wetland or communitygarden.Annie has a Doctorate of Creative Arts in writing. She has livedin numerous different places in Australia and worked across sectorsfrom the arts to environment and sustainability, public health andend-of-life care, always with a focus on facilitation and connectingpeople and having conversations about what is difficult. She livesand works on the lands of Naarm.

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