Home Body
Damien Worth
June 11 - July 25, 2026
This Town Is Small at The Arts Guild
111 Queen Street
Charlottetown, PE
This Town is small is pleased to present
home body, a solo exhibition by damien worth
Home Body is a series of artworks by Damien Worth that takes the artist's preoccupations with the body and his own experience with fluctuating health concerns and channels them into otherworldly, vulnerable, and sci-fi-esque creations built from discarded construction materials. Home Body reflects on an inherent unruliness in the world, aiming to capture the tension between real and imagined spaces, monuments and ruins, and regeneration and mutation.
Worth is interested in the idea of “the temple as a body”, a reversal that suggests that our infrastructural support systems are frail, living, and subject to illness and uncertainty. The handmade and modelled qualities of the series provides a tactile counterpoint to our era’s increasing reliance on technology, offering a space to contemplate discovery, play, and strategies of rebuilding; resisting neat resolution in search of the beauty found in acts of reinvention.
about The Artist:
Damien Worth is a multi-disciplinary artist living and working in rural Prince Edward Island/Epekwitk . A graduate of NSCADU, Worth’s interest in experimental approaches to art production are focused in the media of painting, sculpture, video, and installation. His work explores the tensions that exist between worlds; the dynamics of natural and manufactured sites, reality and fiction, and the perils of certainty. He has participated in various solo and group exhibitions in national and international venues and has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards. Worth has his work held in various private and public collections including the Confederation Centre Art Gallery permanent collection(PE), University of New Brunswick Art Centre permanent collection (NB),The Rooms provincial art bank (NL), The Prince Edward Island art bank (PE), and Global Affairs Art collection for embassies and consulate offices.
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the City of Charlottetown, and Innovation PEI through the PEI Culture Action Plan.