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Free exhibition
Curated by Livvy Murdoch
A new exhibition by Antonia Attwood, examining the ways we try to understand the bodies we inhabit
Artist Antonia Attwood seeks to make the invisible aspects of illness visible, reflecting on the experience of living with chronic illness. She explores how we come to understand the bodies we inhabit, when illness makes the body difficult to comprehend.
Four years ago, Attwood was diagnosed with psoriatic arthritis, a chronic autoimmune condition. Faced with unfamiliar medical language, ongoing appointments and an evolving course of treatment, she found herself having to relearn her relationship with her own body.
Attwood reclaims these experiences using photography, sculpture and video, making visible the aspects of illness that often remain unseen. Intimate spaces of rest are made public, microscopic imagery reveals cellular processes, and signs of stress and damage found in the natural world echo the effects of illness within the body.
Enthesitis, 2024
Skin Cells, 2022
Skin Cells, 2022
Enthesitis, 2024
Antonia Attwood is a London-based artist working around issues of health. Her body of work has developed a focus on illustrating and visually interpreting the phenomenology of illness, and how living with mental or physical illness feels.
She is the Artistic Director at Creative Health Camden, an arts and health charity based in Kentish Town Health Centre, as well as an associate lecturer at the London College of Communication. Recent exhibitions include Rotten, Rotten, Rotten at Peckham Levels, 2024, Nurture at All Is Joy Studios, 2024 and Common Ground at Art Lacuna, 2022.
Supporting four disabled artists to develop their practice and advance their creative careers
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Banner image: Antonia Attwood, Skin Cells, 2022, © the artist. Image courtesy of The Poorly Project.
Images on page all © the artist: 1 ) Antonia Attwood, Enthesitis, 2024. Courtesy the artist. 2) Antonia Attwood, Skin Cells, 2022. Image courtesy of The Poorly Project. 3) Antonia Attwood, Enthesitis, 2024. Courtesy the artist. 4) Antonia Attwood, Skin Cells, 2022. Image courtesy of The Poorly Project.
Part of the project: Sabrina Tirvengadum and Mark Allred, A Posh Summer, 2023, courtesy of the artists.
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