Video installation shows carer's experience

Lost Memories draws on Gary Thomas' experience of being a carer to his mother

A new video installation draws on a man's experiences of caring for his mother, who had Alzheimer's disease.

Combining documentary phone footage with dramatised sequences, Gary Thomas's installation is currently touring five locations across the UK.

The screenwriter and filmmaker, from Epsom in Surrey, said the aim of the work was to provide recognition for the carers who look after their own relatives.

"When my mother was diagnosed, and even before, I began recording and filming moments of our life...both the good times and difficult emotional times," he said.

The video installation will also include dramatised sequences

Audiences will be able to walk through the three-screen installation, titled Lost Memories.

Mr Thomas is also inviting members of the public to submit either 500 written words or a video diary, detailing their own experiences of being a carer.

The accounts will be incorporated into the film installation at a later date.

The tour, which is funded by the National Lottery through Arts Council England, is now set to head to Sussex.

It will be displayed at Colonnade House in Worthing, West Sussex, from 3 to 7 September, and then Victoria Pavilion in Uckfield, East Sussex, in October.

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