COLE-LEVI KLIMT presents: Paul Freud, Meryl Donoghue and Eva Yates
With Guest artists: Charlotte Worthington, Orly Kritzman and Ana Luiza Rodrigues
Curated by Chelsey Chase
Grief, fatigue, apprehension - quiet forces that settle into the body and shape how we move through the world. Often unseen, they dull presence, narrow possibility, and turn life inward when left unacknowledged.
No Life Without Death considers loss not as an endpoint, but as an inseparable condition of living. Death is not something that follows life; it lives within it, informing our fears, our desires, and our capacity to remain open. When grief is resisted, life contracts. When it is faced, life sharpens and is experienced.
Yet within this reckoning lies clarity. Mortality lends urgency to tenderness and meaning to endurance. Life is not diminished by death, but intensified by it—shaped, focused, and made fragile.
Within this inevitability, life reveals its beauty. To live is to create—meaning, connection, new life itself—while knowing it is temporary. Death does not negate this beauty; it gives it weight. Each life is written through choice, presence, and the courage to continue, even in darkness. No Life Without Death recognises that the cycle cannot be interrupted, only inhabited. The exhibition holds space for the depth of human experience, offering a way to look directly at loss without turning away from wonder. It is an invitation to remain engaged with life as it unfolds—to protect it – to love it fiercely, to live it attentively, and to carry on, knowing that the work of living is inseparable from its ending.
Following Extensions of the Soul, Ephemeral Imprints, and Renewal, this exhibition turns toward an uncompromising truth: there is no life beyond death, only life lived because of it.
Preview and artist meet and greet: Saturday 20 June 2026, 2pm to 5pm
Ground Floor Gallery - Free Entry
Banner Image: Paul Freud, Madonna and Child genocide series © The Artist, Image courtesy of COLE-LEVI KLIMT
