Material and multidisciplinary artist Bea Buckland-Willis’s Soft Hurts exhibit at the Chrissie Cotter Gallery offers a contemplative investigation into how representations of pain are mediated through body and mental experience.

Working with traditional relief printing techniques and plaster, Bea’s practice operates at the meeting point of body and object, performance and print. Through ritualised, performative acts and their re-enactment, she explores alternative ‘crip’ temporalities—spaces shaped by the lived experiences of disability and queerness

Bea draws from Crip Theory and the concept of the ‘bodymind,’ rejecting the medical model of pain in favour of artistic ritual as a means of understanding and memorialising the lived experience of pain.

Image courtesy of Inner West Council.