Famous paintings are reimagined in exhibition about end-of-life care
PAINTINGS by famous artists have been reimagined in an exhibition showcasing the importance of end-of-life care.
Charity Marie Curie has commissioned artist Lisa Buchanan, also known as Dangerosa, to create the series of works, which will be auctioned for its Great Daffodil Appeal.
Included in those paintings is Zeb Un-Nisa Ali, a Marie Curie nurse based at the Marie Curie Bradford hospice. She first started working in a hospice as a student in January 2021 and whilst she was originally hesitant she found it felt more like home than a hospital.
The Daffodil Collection, which will be free to visit at a gallery in London’s Mayfair, depicts Marie Curie’s famous daffodil emblem alongside members of the charity’s nursing team, providing care and support to the dying and those close to them.
Tomorrow’s exhibition will be attended by Gavin and Stacey star Alison Steadman, whose mother was supported by the UK’s leading end-of-life charity.
“I’m really looking forward to seeing the new reimagined masterpieces this week, and what a wonderful way to tell the story of what Marie Curie nurses do,” she said.
“Their work is so important, and we’re still in a position where one in four people don’t get the care they need at the end of their lives.
“Marie Curie supported our family and my dear mum at their Liverpool hospice and I’ll always be grateful for how wonderful they were and how much they helped when she most needed it.
“It’s only right that some of the charity’s nurses and healthcare assistants have been immortalised in these beautiful paintings.”
The collection includes a reimagining of a painting by The Scream artist Edvard Munch, called The Dead Mother And Child. In the new painting a Marie Curie healthcare assistant is seen caring for a patient in bed while a nurse comforts a child.
There is also a version of Munch’s By The Death Bed, which now depicts a senior nurse providing emotional support to family and friends. Elsewhere, The Death of Gericault by Ary Scheffer, which shows the death of French painter Theodore Gericault, has been reimagined as a nurse making a patient comfortable in their dying hours.