Patient Property Bag is about the universality of the items we choose to ease us through the process of dying. No matter our class, wealth, race, background, job, or political outlook, when we’re near death and go into a care home or hospice we all need similar things; dressing gown, pyjamas, toothbrush, slippers, pictures of loved ones, religious tokens. In those last few weeks of life with our status symbols of life stripped away, our commonality as humans becomes much clearer.

After someone dies in a hospice or care home, their loved ones receive their personal items in a 'patient property bag'. This piece uses the contents from my Mum's patient property bag after she died in hospice care in 2024. I have displayed them on a human body bag to indicate that these everyday items are the stuff of death for us all.