Rosetta Life artists

Rosetta Life is an artist led organisation offering four to six sessions at home, in-patient unit or day care, enabling people to explore experiences and feelings through video, photography, drama, poetry, fiction and other art forms.

Recent work includes the creation of a series of Medicine Pills - 12-inch circular art works created by patients, carers and staff at Weldmar, that represent one of the special things they do or think about when they are low or down or in pain. These have been collected together into a book, which is now on sale online.

More about this organisation is available on the Rosetta Life website.

Rosetta Life films on YouTube

Here are a few examples of the video work undertaken by Rosetta Life with patients of Weldmar Hospicecare Trust.

Tessa

A film made with the help of Catherine Batten, of Rosetta Life, at Trimar Day Hospice. Tessa Lees, wife and mother of two young children, died from breast cancer late in 2006. During her final months she made a short film about her life and the things that mattered most to her. The first two sections involve one of Tessas heroes, the singer/song writer Billy Bragg, who kindly visited her to help her record a song. In the second half Tessa talks about how, after years of restless moving, Portland became her home, and about her garden there, a symbol of her love of life and family.

 

Juggler

When Russell Prangnell came to daycare at Trimar, he agreed to make a film about juggling. Over the course of five weekly sessions he gradually rekindled his skill but it was during the final session, when he brought along some music, that he suddenly started to really perform. The magic he brought to that moment has given many people so much pleasure, and it became a wonderful gift that he left for his family and many others to enjoy.

 

But remember this

A film made by Jo Davies, with the help of Catherine Batten of Rosetta Life. Jo made this film to be shown at her funeral, which it was in June 2007. It includes her reading the poem written whilst attending the Day Hospice at Trimar, Weymouth, which was entered into the World Hospice Day poetry competition shortly before she died.. The film starts with Jo's monthly trip to Poole Hospital for chemotherapy, then Jo's poem with stills from her life, ending with shots of her son, friends, family and Jo getting her chemo.