Beatrix Villiers

United Kingdom
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I am a 22 year old artist based between London, New York, and Tokyo, with a focus on oil painting, screen printing, digital art, sculpture and animation. Throughout my artistic journey, I have been consistently drawn to exploring states of metamorphosis of the human body, particularly in relation to the nuanced realities of femininity and the female experience. Through a multidisciplinary practice, I aim to explore the uneasy tension between beauty and the grotesque in our hyper-curated digital age, the fragility of the body in the face of global pressures, as well as the ways women navigate medical and institutional systems. In my most recent body of work, I have focused on reproductive health and the often-silenced experiences of hormonal disorders such as Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS). As someone living with PCOS, I am acutely aware of how femininity is performed, medicalized, and pathologized. This has informed my understanding of the body as being something both deeply personal and shaped by larger cultural, technological, and institutional forces. Ultimately, my work seeks to reclaim and reframe the female body in its many forms, resisting both fetishization and erasure, and speaking to the complexity of femininity in a world that both worships and distorts it.

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