Where do our memories of the dead live? Leeds-based artist and performance maker Ellie Harrison, is on a month-long journey to find out as she brings her Journey with Absent Friends to Lighthouse, Poole’s Centre for the Arts on Wednesday and Thursday and Saturday this week.

You are invited to add your memories of loved ones to Ellie’s audio archive or embroidered map, have a cuppa and spend some time exploring her caravan full of hidden treasures.

Entrance to the caravan is free and open to people of all ages on June 6 to 7 between 12pm and 7pm and Saturday, June 9 from 10am to 12pm.

Ellie reveals: “In 2002 I scattered my mother’s ashes, probably illegally, on Brownsea Island. There is no lasting monument. I have never been back until now. So my mother has been gone for 17 years but she still surprises me. Because now I don’t meet her as a mother, as someone I need something from, but as an artist.”

A spokesman for the tour said: “On Saturday, June 9 you can join Ellie for a performance meal - a chance to get together and celebrate those we’ve loved and lost over good food and a tipple.

“The Grief Series is a sequence of seven projects, using a seven stage Grief Model from psychology as a starting point, which Ellie uses to normalise the conversation about bereavement and reassure us.”

For more details, visit lighthousepoole.co.uk