Tag: personal narrative art

Abigail Hammond creates unapologetically raw work that confronts the realities of menopause through sculpture, video, sound, and installation. After a 35-year career in costume design for dance and theatre, her practice shifted into something deeply personal, using her own body as both subject and material. Through detailed Jesmonite casts, performative video, and immersive installations, she captures the physical and emotional intensity of menopause without softening or aestheticizing it. Her work challenges silence and stigma, prioritizing truth over comfort, and often sparks powerful conversations in both gallery and public spaces. Rooted in…

Cristina Rodriguez creates collages that transform torn paper fragments into powerful reflections on women’s identity and lived experience. Working entirely by hand, she cuts, tears, and layers found images to build compositions that feel both chaotic and deeply intentional. Her process mirrors the fragmentation of memory and the complexity of personal and collective narratives, where meaning emerges through juxtaposition and reconstruction. Influenced by literature, art, and lived experience, her work moves between vulnerability and resistance, inviting viewers to find themselves within the layers. Rather than presenting complete or resolved images, her…

Selected for our Faces exhibition, Lisa Matway creates bold abstract faces layered in vivid pinks, purples, and oranges that pulse with emotion. Her work is deeply rooted in her husband Jerry’s journey with Parkinson’s, exploring the gap between a face that appears still and the life that continues beneath it. Through exaggerated features, layered textures, and unapologetic color, she restores expression where the condition tries to take it away. Each piece begins with shared conversations, translating lived experience into visual form. What started as a personal outlet has grown into modart4pd,…