EXHIBITION

A body of work delving into narratives surrounding disability, the body, and identity. It takes shape through her artistic creations following a life-altering incident in November 2020 when she was shot and left paralyzed while innocently standing on Broadway Market.

Bignell fuses emotive mark making, medical scans, photography and cartograph. Playing with scale to underscore the significance of mobility aids, and the empowering aspects of disability as a source of creativity.

This collection exposes the monochrome theater of Bignell’s life-saving surgery layered with the lush foliage of exotic plants. Themes of growth and resilience abound, displaying beauty flourishing through the unexpected and the painful splitting, splintering and breaking that growth often entails.

In addition to her drawings and paintings, Bignell utilizes eye gaze and voice dictation, to create digital works. Her distinctive process, involving a multitude of creative adaptive devices and the use of light for layering, bridges the realms of emotion and physicality in her adaptation to a life transformed by paralysis.

This autobiographical body of work has deeply rooted social and political implications, as it stimulates reflections on independence, bodily autonomy, fragility and growth through world shaking events.