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Selected projects
Buckland-Willis' practice could be described as a kind of distorted self-portrait of the artist and their complicated relationship with their own healing journey. Having undergone significant orthopedic surgery in their early teens, the artist lives in a body that is not entirely their own, supported by titanium rods and screws they exist in a strange liminal space between the natural and artificial.
"In some ways, I consider pain which becomes chronic, a kind of memory of an action. A recurring trauma embedded in the nervous system to be flared and triggered throughout our lives. My work is my attempt to explore these themes, creating my own visual language for discomfort I apply my practice as a means to ritualise what is otherwise meaningless and explore what it means to be 'healed'."
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