This Artist Hanged Himself Because No One Attended His Art Exhibition

While we are here crying over the hardship in Nigeria, someone is hanging himself because no one showed up at his event

 

An artist hanged himself after no one attended the launch of his new art project, an inquest heard.

Stuart Bennett, 58, organised an opening day at his studio on September 5 last year, as he wanted to start teaching art to children.

But the event clashed with the town's horticultural show - and nobody came, an inquest at Macclesfield Town Hall heard.

A cleaner discovered Mr Bennett's body at the studio on Palmerston Street, Bollington, at 4pm the next day, according to the Manchester Evening News.

He had left a handwritten note, artwork and a heart-shaped chocolate on a desk.

Recording a verdict of suicide, coroner for Cheshire Nicholas Rheinberg said: "Such was his enthusiasm he galloped away with the project rather than plan it in care and detail.

"He changed the date of the open-day and it clashed with the horticultural show.

"It must've been quite a blow when the day came and went and not a single person attended."

Mrs Gretton-Wright, an acquaitance said they went for a coffee and a walk after the failed open day, before Mr Bennett took a takeaway back to the studio at around 8.30pm and planned to stay the night there.

She said: "He wasn't used to no one turning up.

"In Congleton he had a following, hangers on.

"He was taken back by the disappointment but after our walk had snapped out of it.

"Stuart was very restless.

"He always had a project on the go in order to feel valuable.

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