Read the evaluation of the writer-in-residence programme we ran alongside the Durham exhibition.
Living anatomy
Catherine explores the magical-inner workings of our bodies and the breath, through art, movement, and sound.
Bristol exhibition photo tour
Explore this photo tour of the exhibition at Southmead Hospital in Bristol from 24 September to 31 December 2019.
Bristol virtual exhibition
Take a closer look at the Bristol exhibition content.
Letters in the leaves
Elspeth explores the power of letter writing through her workshops in Bristol.
RCP exhibition highlights
Watch a video tour showing some of the highlights of the RCP exhibition.
A matter of life and breath
View presentations from Life of Breath researchers, drawing on a range of different perspectives, including the lived experience of breathlessness, patient accounts of healthcare, concepts of ‘normal’.
Bristol launch in images
Life of Breath’s Jordan Collver shares images of the Catch Your Breath launch at Bristol.
Catching our breath
A summary of Catch Your Breath’s closing day at the Royal College of Physicians’ Open House with artist Jayne Wilton.
Plants and the Lungs trail
The exhibition might have left the RCP, but the medicinal garden is there to stay. Explore RCP medicinal garden with their Plants and the Lungs trail.
Catch Your Breath moves to Bristol
The Bristol exhibition team highlight the themes of Catch Your Breath at Southmead Hospital, Bristol.
Strive and labour more vehemently
RCP’s Katie Birkwood (Rare Books & Special Collections Librarian) and Felix Lancashire (Assistant Archivist) discuss their favourite objects of the London exhibition.
RCP’s Catch Your Breath
Explore this unique version of the Catch Your Breath exhibition and its collections at the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Botanicals for breathlessness
The Royal College of Physicians’ medicinal garden is home to a variety of plants used to cure different respiratory illnesses.
The Soundscape
Life of Breath researcher, music therapist & mindful yoga therapist Kate Binnie discusses her recorded piece ‘The Soundscape’.
The Book of Jo
Theatre maker Viv Gordon explains how she came to create her theatre work The Book of Jo.
‘The Secret’ & ‘To Breathe’
Films created by our writer-in-residence Christy Ducker in collaboration with filmmaker Kate Sweeney.
We come here for fun!
Watch the premiere of ‘The Singing Hospital’, composed by Victoria Hume to celebrate ten years of Singing for Breathing at Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust.
Breath and Breathing booklet
In response to the London version of the Catch Your Breath exhibition, two RCP fellows, Nigel Cooke and Noel Snell decided to
Ohmerometer II
Project Officer Jade talks about North East-based artists Helen Collard and Alistair MacDonald’s art commission and installation ‘Ohmerometer II’.
Making the invisible visible
Writer-in-Residence Christy Ducker writes about the poetry workshop process, and posts some of the public’s poems.
Sharing the unshareable
As part of her residency, Christy Ducker ran a series of writing workshops with Durham and Derwentside Breathe Easy.
Making ‘Still/Breathing’
North East based filmmaker Matt James Smith discusses the changing process behind his short film ‘Still/Breathing’, commissioned for Catch Your Breath by Life of Breath.
Catch Your Breath moves to London
As our exhibition opens in London find out what to expect and how it differs from Durham.
What’s in a name?
Find out why we chose ‘Catch Your Breath’ as the name for this exhibition.
Time to catch our breath…
After two years of preparation and four busy months, our Durham exhibition draws to a close this week. Curator David Wright reflects.
Catch Your Breath Jukebox
Listen to our breath-inspired Spotify playlist.
‘Sing Sweetly for Tobacco’
Project Manager Sarah looks at some of the work by Life of Breath researcher Prof Andrew Russell.
Johanna Under The Ice
‘Johanna Under The Ice’ by Ian Derry is both beautiful and terrifying.
Breathtaking books
One of the curator’s hardest jobs is choosing what not to include in an exhibition. Find out what we couldn’t include from Palace Green Library’s archives.
Air Transformed
These striking objects by Miriam Quick and Stefanie Posavec represent air pollution data.
Still/Breathing
Project Manager Sarah talks about the Life of Breath commissioned film ‘Still/Breathing’ by Matt Smith.
Breath in Visual Art
How can we make the invisible visible?
Insights into Illness
Brian Callendar on Aneurin Wright’s graphic medicine novel ‘Things To Do in a Retirement Home Trailer Park… When You’re 29 and Unemployed’.
Under The Surface
Award-winning composer Toby Young discusses his creation of ‘Under the Surface’ with Jennifer Thorp.
Respiration as Inspiration
Professor David Fuller explores the ways in which breath inspires the writing and performance of poetry and literature.
Spirometry: Is ‘normal’ what it seems?
Spirometers, like other medical technologies, need a definition of ‘normal’ to quantify ‘abnormal’. But how reliable is this baseline?
Durham exhibition photo tour
A photo tour of Catch Your Breath at Palace Green Library, Durham (24 November 2018 to 17 March 2019).
Kids in Museums Takeover Day
A video tour of Catch Your Breath at Palace Green Library in Durham by Coxhoe Primary School on Kids in Museums Takeover Day.
Breathing like the Iceman
by Sarah McLusky, Project Manager In our Catch Your Breath exhibition there is a pair of shorts. To some they will just
Breathe better (with breathing exercises)
by Kate Binnie, Life of Breath Researcher A key theme of the exhibition is that the way we breathe can change the
Catch Your Breath exhibition sneak peek
by David Wright, Curator Hello and welcome to the Catch Your Breath exhibition blog. We’re just under two months away from the