Perfect Imperfection - The Art of Healing
Collection of work exploring the fragility and resilience of the human condition through the violated materiality of the portrait.
First shown as solo exhibition at Riflemaker Gallery, Soho London. April 2017
First shown as solo exhibition at Riflemaker Gallery, Soho London. April 2017
Exhibition catalogue with accompanying essay by Dr Jeremy Spencer available from Amazon |
Press Release Billie Bond presents Perfect Imperfection – The Art of Healing, an exhibition exploring psychological trauma and healing as a physical narrative through the sculpted portrait. Her first London solo exhibition brought together a selection of portraits (some self-portraits) that begin their journey in the traditional sense of realistic representation. Bond then seeks to expand the parameters of the genre beyond a lifelike representation by using a process of destruction and repair to convey a journey of grief and trauma to healing and wellbeing. Emotional encounters are imbued into material form. ‘I try to open the window to the soul, force its pain outside, expose its rawness in an attempt to heal the damage and to make it better. For me, the process or performance of making is the art’ Inspired by the ancient Japanese art of Kintsugi (the repair of broken ceramics with gold), a philosophy of seeing beauty in imperfection, Billie Bond’s work questions the tension between destruction and repair, fragility and resilience and thoughts about what it is to be human. Her fractured portraits seek to consider a critical engagement with the viewer, confronting fundamental questions of the inner self |