Angela Samata meets with Mark Storor, the artist behind The Suicide Chronicles project. In this conversation, the pair discuss how this project began as an artistic questioning of civilisation (our most brutal act of barbarism?) and evolved into a body of work through which personal experiences of suicide can be articulated truthfully.

Mark is an artist who specialises in platforming the voices of those we all too rarely choose to hear. He usually works over several years to create extraordinarily beautiful and uplifting work in which community participants and professionals work side by side in genuine partnership. Mark is currently working with Heart of Glass on a twelve year project called Baa Baa Baric, Have you any pull? and over the past four years of this work he’s been focused on The Suicide Chronicles, which seeks to develop a collective and creative language for the complex experience of suicide.

Angela Samata is a mental health campaigner working in the fields of suicide prevention and postvention. She is a consultant on the Suicide Chronicles project and has also contributed to this project as a participant.

A full transcript of this episode can be viewed on our website.

Helplines:

Samaritans: 116123 A safe place for you to talk anytime (24h, free).

Papyrus: 0800 068 41 41 Prevention of Young Suicide (free & confidential).

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The Suicide Chronicles: ConversationsBy Heart of GlassAug 25, 2022