Bianca Wallis-Salmon West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
bare those teeth, unfurl those wings
Bianca Wallis-Salmon is a transdisciplinary artist who is currently working across photography, poetry, sculpture, and printmaking. Her practice serves as a mirror to her unconscious and a medium for inner revolution as she moves through a journey of healing and metamorphosis - confronting both the external environment and her own inner battles, transforming her self-perception and, in turn, the world around her.
Through performative photography Bianca employs her body to transgress personal and corporeal boundaries - looking to interspecies transformation and ancient ways of connecting to and receiving wisdom from the ‘more than human’, to explore transitional states of being and becoming. Through her spiritual and instinctive alliance of nature and the female body, Bianca challenges and rejects the identity and gender stereotypes prescribed to us by Western phallocentric discourse, drawing upon the remembrance of anthropomorphic female archetypes from mythology and folklore as a vehicle for self-reclamation, empowerment, and healing.
Artwork
I dream and shake in acts of quiet resistance, performance photographs, 2022
tender animal , performance photography, 2023
The edges cannot hold , photograph, 2023
albedo, screenprint on fabric, 2024
I no longer feel afraid , Photograph, 2024
mycelium sings to me, photograph, 2024
massa confusa, Risograph, 2024
In my end is my beginning , photomontage, 2024
courage , sculpture, 2024
Projects and exhibitions
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Gathering28/09/2024 |
Leeds | Details |
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Next Gen: Postgraduate Showcase18/09/2023 — 23/09/2023 |
Leeds Arts University, Leeds | Details |
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Inside Out19/05/2023 — 23/06/2023 |
Leeds Arts University, Leeds | Details |
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Ones To Watch11/03/2023 — 30/04/2023 Ones to Watch returns to the Gallery for its tenth year in 2023, showcasing some of the most exciting emerging talent Yorkshire has to offer. The exhibition brings together work by artists from across disciplines, from painting to sculpture, film, photography, ceramics, design and more. After several testing years, these 38 students are truly... [Read more] |
Sunny Bank Mills, Leeds | Details |