About this Event
'TRACING THE UNSEEN'
CREATIVE HEALTH CAMDEN
IN COLLABORATION WITH THE POORLY PROJECT
OCTOBER 2026 - FEBRUARY 2027
PRIVATE VIEW: 21ST OCTOBER 2026, 18:30 -20:30PM
AT THE KENTISH TOWN HEALTH CENTRE,
2 BARTHOLOMEW ROAD, 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 and , ‘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 Creative Health Camden
Creative Health Camden is a pioneering charity supporting arts and community initiatives within Kentish Town Health Centre in Camden, North London. Our aim is to relieve mental and physical suffering through the use of the arts and holistic care.
We work in partnership with the James Wigg and Queens Crescent GP practices as part of a social prescribing model.
We provide a range of projects and services - from various arts workshops to dance classes for people with Parkinson’s, as well a a Benefits Advice service for all patients.
Our award winning exhibition space on the first floor displays work on themes surrounding health and well-being from various perspectives.
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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Creative Health Camden, 2 Bartholomew Road, London, United Kingdom
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