Lewes Exhibitions - Pay What You Can

Lewes Exhibitions - Pay What You Can

In 1926, Virginia Woolf published her essay 'On Being Ill'. In it she asked why illness, something everyone experiences at some point in their lives, is so rarely written about. Part of the problem, Woolf argued, is language. We have plenty of words for love and grief. But try to describe a headache to a doctor and 'language at once runs dry'. A century later, this exhibition brings together mode