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Lamentation

Lamentation after Martha Graham

Wax wire scrim found natural object from sea and hedgerow.

W 22cm x H 21cm x D 18cm

Carolyn Savidge 2026.

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Lamentation

The body of the sculpture is an imagined extension of Lamentation inspired by Martha Graham signature work. (1930)

​The body of wax is shaped as an extension of grief in a kinetic dialogue, moulded into the essence of sorrow.

​The passion, the contraction and release of the body is encased  in wax, motionless, off kilter, emotionless in entwined rope, seeds, leaves and twigs.

​The work is autobiographical, it is primal.

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Biscuit Tin of Memories

Our memories often make us who we are.

​They confirm, a sense of belonging, that we exist.

​What fragments of the past do we preserve, informing our vision, how it was, back then, colouring it, and how it felt?

​Memories live on in what you leave behind and who, and how you were, in other people’s eyes.

​With the discovery of my childhood archival 1960 cine camera footage, I was moved to uncover the memory, shape my own narrative. Pages unfolded, words and images touched, gathered into a sense of belonging, preserved as a visual and material memory. The fragrance, touch, love, sounds, joy, grief, grit, and scars, placed gently, and perhaps the clues I hold most dear to me, inside an old biscuit tin.

I am interested in the recall of things, the gathering, to ask, what senses, the holding of memory would you put in a biscuit tin, as the wind blows in the ashes and dust, tokens of our passage, and how you are now, before the fragments take flight and land delicately at your feet?

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Carolyn Savidge

An idyllic 1950s childhood observing and exploring the natural world on her grandparent’s Somerset farm still influences the creative output of artist, filmmaker, choreographer, writer, performer, lecturer, teacher & facilitator Carolyn Savidge.

Her mixed-media work explores perennial themes of love and loss, combining the serendipity of found objects in nature with the reality of our lived experience to present an absorbing, distinctive and closely observed artistic vision.

Carolyn challenges and redefines healing, memory and mental health, holistically considering physical, mental and spiritual wellbeing through her art practice.

In a diverse 50-year freelance career, Carolyn has also lived, worked, taught and performed in Africa, the Caribbean, India, Sri Lanka and the USA. She was a lecturer in contemporary dance at Brighton University, Laban Centre at Goldsmiths, University of London and The Place, London, and performed with the Barbados Dance Theatre Company for three years before founding the Carolyn Savidge Dance Company.

Carolyn has been a director, teacher and facilitator in primary and secondary schools, sixth-form colleges, academies and universities at home and abroad, including the American School in Lusaka, Zambia (where she also ran her own dance studio), and was visiting dance director for the annual International Festival of Dance, Music, Speech and Drama in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

As a performance artist she researched the cathartic transformative effects that come about through the simple act of taking unstructured walks in the landscape, which led to an appearance on BBC in Claire Balding on Ramblings: Artists’ Ways and still influences her artistic vision.

Based in Newlyn, Carolyn Savidge has directed Dance-for-Camera films, and hosts exhibitions and workshops at arts festivals, galleries and events throughout south-west England.