This piece responds to the experience of a cancer patient’s partner and focuses our attention on the disease’s wider impact. The redacted embroidered text expresses how cancer transforms families’ lives alongside the patient’s life. How language becomes complicated and incomplete; how we edit our thoughts and select what we share – at first to support or protect our loved ones (the patients), and later in telling our own stories. It explores how we endure hardship, and how we can thrive again.

“In July 2022, global pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca and Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, joined forces on an exciting project. Six employees from AstraZeneca who form part of the Cancer@Work Employee Resource Group – a support network, where individuals from across the business are able to connect with others going through a similar experience of cancer, whether it be as a patient, carer or family member – were partnered with six Fine Art graduates. Over the following months, they worked closely together to create six individual artworks, each as unique as the person and story that inspired it. The result was Within – a collection that provides a deep connection to the work that AstraZeneca does in the field of Oncology by acting as a reminder, primarily to its employees, of the organisation's commitment to discovering, developing and delivering life-changing treatments that have a positive impact on the world. All six pieces now reside within the AstraZeneca UK Kings Cross offices.”