About Sudden Cardiac Art

From the passionate, albeit flawed, hearts of fine artist Charlie Kirkham and resuscitation advocates HeartCharged has come a revolutionary art exhibition and events at Kingshill House, September 2024, to end preventable cardiac deaths and gender disparity. 

Bethany & Hannah, the girls from HeartCharged, live with the deadly heart condition, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Hannah is a sudden cardiac arrest survivor. They realized awareness before and quick actions during a sudden cardiac arrest from everyday citizens determines life or death. They went on a mission to train and inform people, children through adults, on using defibrillators and performing CPR. 

Then they discovered to their horror that women had significantly lower survival rates because, even when they could, people were choosing not to help women, basically because of their breasts. It seemed unconscionable women were left to die. They vowed to change that.

Charlie saw the HeartCharged campaign and knew she needed to join. She too wanted to raise survival rates, for women, children, and men, from the current 10% to the attainable 70%. How could she, as an artist, enact change? Charlie knew that in museums the female breast was on display as art. Why would we keep it covered when it became a matter of life or death? She knew that through art people could see the beauty of saving another human and through awareness, they could learn how. 

Sudden Cardiac Art now showcases over 30 artists from around the world - submitting a vast array of art pieces, and presenting their interpretations of rebirth and revival and the heart warrior journey. 

A number of pieces will display not just the beauty of the female physique, but more importantly the beauty of the act of honoring a woman, or man, and reverencing their worth by taking simple actions which could save their life. 

Thanks to support from Cosimo - an online marketplace and platform where artists can sell their work - we're offering prints from this year's exhibition for sale through this online store.