Tracing the Unseen: Exhibition with The Poorly Project
‘TRACING THE UNSEEN’
CREATIVE HEALTH CAMDEN IN COLLABORATION WITH THE POORLY PROJECT
EXHIBITED WORKS BY CATRIONA FAULKER, ALICE RORRISON, COCO WARNER-ALLEN, BILLIE M.VIGNE, WENQI ZOU, ANTONIA ATTWOOD AND SARA ULFSPARRE
OCTOBER 2026 - FEBRUARY 2027
PRIVATE VIEW: 21ST OCTOBER 2026 (18:30 - 20:30)
LOCATION: UPPER GALLERY (1ST FLOOR), Kentish Town Health Centre,
2 Bartholomew Rd London · NW5 2BX
‘Tracing the Unseen’ is a group exhibition featuring embroidery, photography, sculpture, painting, needle felting and assemblage. The exhibition explores chronic health conditions and its diverse lived experiences.
Our bodies carry our stories. Sometimes, these stories are recognised through our scars, our skin, or the way our bodies move. Others exist beneath the surface at a cellular level. Art-making offers an exploration of these realities, giving them a new tangible form.
The exhibition examines the delicate details and overlooked realities of chronic health conditions. Often under-researched or misdiagnosed, the majority of these conditions remain difficult to identify. Related health issues and unpredictable symptoms complicate treatment and management.
As awareness and advocacy grow, new understandings emerge, leading to the formation of communities led by acknowledgement, empathy and hopeful change.
Displaying the works of six artists: Catriona Faulkner, Alice Rorrison, Coco Warner-Allen, Wenqi Zou, Billie M.Vigne, Antonia Attwood and Sara Ulfsparre – each artist is united through shared moments, materials and the navigation of chronic health conditions through creative practice.
Everyday items and found materials give insight into experience, collected during short, familiar walks in the world. Beads, sequins, twigs and trinkets are repeatedly incorporated into specific works, bringing intrigue and a sense of ritual. Changed by illness and pain, the body is reimagined through natural and synthetic materials - stitched, stuck, layered, felted and moulded to help our understanding.
A collaborative exhibition between Creative Health Camden and The Poorly Project, ‘Tracing the Unseen’ is a call for community-building, forming a space where artists, patients, health practitioners and advocates come together. In this process there is hope for the unseen to be seen.
About the Artists
Billie M. Vigne
Billie M. Vigne is a Kent-based artist and metalsmith whose works mythologise, archive and memorialise a lifetime of bed culture. Reworking materials harvested from her own life, using both artisanal and hobbyist craft techniques, Billie feels her way through unknown illness, searching for answers via the conduit of her alter ego Bill Bones.
Billie also runs The Beer Can Votive Project; a travelling forum of embossing workshops in which people make votive offerings from recycled drinks cans that challenge the historical narrative of their use as curative talismans.
Sara Ulfsparre
Sara Ulfsparre is a London-based multidisciplinary artist, working across watercolour, ink, stitch, needle felting, and soft sculpture. Her practice explores the relationship between body and mind through playful yet mysterious forms.
The complicated relationship with the body is key to Sara’s practice, exploring autobiography in relation to pain. Using repetition, tactility, and symbolic gestures, Sara navigates contrasts—burden and armour, softness and restriction, comfort and unease. Her process is meditative and expressive, blending surreal imagery with fragmented writing to explore vulnerability, resilience, and the tensions that lie between.
Coco Warner-Allen
Coco Warner-Allen is a London-based multi-media artist who combines fine art with traditional craft. Her work takes on a diarist format to explore concepts surrounding identity and conventional representations of femininity.
At the core of her textile practice is a commitment to community, using craft and humour as tools to foster healing within a late-capitalist patriarchal society.
Following a recent diagnosis and treatment for Endometriosis, she utilizes her artistic practice as a vehicle to process her relationship with chronic illness and to investigate the historical oversight on women's healthcare since the advent of modern medicine.
Alice Rorrison
Alice Rorrison is a Camberwell-based printmaker and painter. They graduated from BA Fine Art: Painting at Camberwell College of Art in 2025.
Alice creates personal mythologies in their artworks by intertwining a deep love for the fantastical side of nature and folklore with their lived experience of disability.
The artworks are a space for solace; a reflection of the meandering time and healing Alice finds in nature.
Wenqi Zou
Wenqi Zou is a London-based artist and researcher. She holds an MRes in Fine Art & Humanities from the Royal College of Art and is currently pursuing a practice-based PhD at the University of Edinburgh.
Working across moving image, installation, sculpture and participatory practice, her work explores the intersections of embodied experience, illness, trauma, migration and cultural memory. Drawing on autoethnography, oral histories, sensory research and site-responsive approaches, she examines how personal and collective histories are carried through bodies, materials and places. Her recent practice increasingly engages with care, community and alternative forms of knowledge-making.
Antonia Attwood
Antonia Attwood is a London-based visual artist working with moving image and photography.
Antonia's body of work has developed a focus on illustrating and visually interpreting how living with mental and physical illness ‘feels’. Using still, moving imagery, sound and sculpture, Antonia depicts the phenomenology of illness.
Her work explores how it feels for individuals to be vulnerable and overwhelmed in the world living with a medical condition. It is not about communicating a straightforward message but rather sharing interpretations of experience.
Catriona Faulkner
Catriona Faulkner is a Kent-based artist whose practice explores themes of pain, ritual and devotion.
Using assemblage and hand-stitch techniques, she examines her own experiences living with chronic pain and related health challenges following an accident.
At first glance, Catriona’s work may appear deceptively comfortable and appealing, enticing viewers with its opulence and intrigue. However, a deeper exploration of her material language , use of symbolism and underlying narratives reveals a personal world that confronts chronic pain head on.
About The Poorly Project
The Poorly Project, alternatively known as POORLY is an editorial and curatorial initiative dedicated to creative practitioners contributing to the topics of sickness, health and well-being.
Understanding that sickness remains on the societal side-lines and contemporary conversations on health and well-being are becoming part-time, the exchange of information, experience and wisdom has become evermore valuable.
Manifested through written interviews, in-person studio tours and visual documentation – cumulatively known as ‘tales’ – The Poorly Project aims to bring greater public awareness to the expressions and obstacles associated with these important matters.
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