Age is a Privilege, Unless You Forget at St. Patrick's Hospital

Age is a Privilege, Unless you Forget! is an exhibition by artist Debbie Castro in collaboration with her father, Charles, and it explores dementia from the perspective of a person living with it. At the core of the exhibition, Castro considers the life of her father Charlie and elements of it that she was previously unaware of before he was diagnosed with dementia 11 years ago.

Age is a Privilege, Unless You Forget! encourages visitors to find their own unique way of responding to the exhibition and to experiences they may have had of witnessing the decline in memory of people in their lives. It is through engaging with the exhibition that visitors will learn more about the experience and practice of the artist, while discovering more about themselves.

Through illustrating the development of her father’s dementia and giving a physical form to his experience, Debbie invites visitors to the exhibition to gain a profound and meaningful insight into memory loss.

This exhibition will be open to the public on a drop-in basis between 11am and 4pm on Saturday, 11 May and Sunday, 12 May.

For more information about this exhibition visit: https://www.debbiecastro.com/age-is-a-privilege-unless-you-forget