Rhonda Fenwick, a British artist who has had psoriasis since childhood, explores issues of skin and body image in her multimedia work, which includes assemblages, camera, installations, film and text. Her work, which also includes interactive artistic events with psoriasis patients and with school children, has received funding from the (UK) Psoriasis Association. She writes:
Through my skin I have lived and dreamed a life from the inside out; I learn to conceal. I am wrapped and contained from head to toe, enclosed and separated from what is me and what is not me. A boundary between two worlds, a shattered shelter containing my identity, vulnerable, exposed, yet always changing. Every day it sheds its memories of changes, texture, scent, temperature and colour.
You can read more and see sample stills and an excerpt of one of her films at Rhonda Fenwick’s website.
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