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After Love Mapping Heartbreak: A Creative Body-Mapping Workshop
Friday 9 October 2026
3pm- 5pm
Where does heartbreak live in the body? Join artists Jill Mueller and Julie Light for a
playful, reflective art workshop exploring heartbreak through colour, shape, texture
and the body.
About this event
This workshop invites you to explore heartbreak not just as an abstract idea, but as
something that can be felt physically and imagined visually.
We’ll start with a short introduction to Dr Sally Holloway’s After Love research
project, exploring what historians and researchers have discovered about the
experience and expression of heartbreak over time.
We’ll then experiment together with colour, texture, shape and mark, creating a
shared visual “legend” for feelings and sensations associated with heartbreak —
from longing and desire to grief, shame and anger.
Using this as a starting point, you’ll be invited to create your own A2 body map,
combining paint, drawing and collage to explore where and how these feelings might
inhabit the body.
You don’t need to be able to draw or have any previous art experience. The
emphasis is on exploration rather than artistic skill.
You can work from your own experiences, from literature, stories or historic ideas
about heartbreak, or simply from your own imagination. There is no expectation to
disclose anything personal, and you can share as much or as little as you wish.
Come and discover what heartbreak can look like through the lens of creativity.
Key info
Location: OVADA Education Room, upstairs
Duration: 2 hours
Tickets £8/5/3
All materials will be provided
No experience necessary
Limited to 15 participants
Some group sharing is involved, but participation is always your choice
Please note, this event is suitable for ages 18+
Accessibility
This event takes place upstairs in our Education Room.
There is a flight of approximately 20 wooden stairs with a handrail to get to it.
The closest fully accessible toilet is at Courtyard by Marriot Hotel, a 3minute walk from the gallery.
Although we have a range of ticket pricing, please get in touch with us at afterromanticlove@gmail.com if pricing is a barrier to you attending the workshop.
After Love Mapping Heartbreak: A Creative Body-Mapping Workshop
Friday 9 October 2026
3pm- 5pm
Where does heartbreak live in the body? Join artists Jill Mueller and Julie Light for a
playful, reflective art workshop exploring heartbreak through colour, shape, texture
and the body.
About this event
This workshop invites you to explore heartbreak not just as an abstract idea, but as
something that can be felt physically and imagined visually.
We’ll start with a short introduction to Dr Sally Holloway’s After Love research
project, exploring what historians and researchers have discovered about the
experience and expression of heartbreak over time.
We’ll then experiment together with colour, texture, shape and mark, creating a
shared visual “legend” for feelings and sensations associated with heartbreak —
from longing and desire to grief, shame and anger.
Using this as a starting point, you’ll be invited to create your own A2 body map,
combining paint, drawing and collage to explore where and how these feelings might
inhabit the body.
You don’t need to be able to draw or have any previous art experience. The
emphasis is on exploration rather than artistic skill.
You can work from your own experiences, from literature, stories or historic ideas
about heartbreak, or simply from your own imagination. There is no expectation to
disclose anything personal, and you can share as much or as little as you wish.
Come and discover what heartbreak can look like through the lens of creativity.
Key info
Location: OVADA Education Room, upstairs
Duration: 2 hours
Tickets £8/5/3
All materials will be provided
No experience necessary
Limited to 15 participants
Some group sharing is involved, but participation is always your choice
Please note, this event is suitable for ages 18+
Accessibility
This event takes place upstairs in our Education Room.
There is a flight of approximately 20 wooden stairs with a handrail to get to it.
The closest fully accessible toilet is at Courtyard by Marriot Hotel, a 3minute walk from the gallery.
Although we have a range of ticket pricing, please get in touch with us at afterromanticlove@gmail.com if pricing is a barrier to you attending the workshop.