Episode 5 - Artist & Photographer Carli Adby-Notley

Episode 5 of the Creative Health Camden Podcast has arrived. In this episode, we welcome our exhibiting artist Carli Adby-Notley.

Carli Adby-Notley’s practice is rooted in feminist thinking and grounded in lived experience, continually exploring questions of self hood and the performance of Gender. More recently, it adopts a heavily research-based approach, challenging the medicalisation of the “female” body and ageing, particularly when, for the most part, we are considered reproductive or maternal by default.

Working in the intersections between photography, contemporary art, health, feminist research and lived experience; Carli uses the language of the body to question how women are seen, spoken about and treated. Across these projects runs a sense of reclamation: an attention to the continuity and fragility of women’s experience, the language and legacy of medicine and motherhood, and the ways our bodies hold memory, trauma, resilience and invite conjecture.

‘Inherited Bodies’ is a semi-retrospective exhibition by Carli Adby, with photographic, archival, and experimental works exploring how women’s health — and the language that surrounds it — is experienced, represented, and inherited.

Grounded in lived experiences of PCOS (Polycystic Ovary Syndrome), POI (Premature Ovarian Insufficiency), Menopause and severe PMDD (Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder) - ‘Inherited Bodies’ questions who determines and defines what is “normal” or “dysfunctional”.

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