Home Body is a new series of paintings by Damien Worth that reveal the artist’s preoccupation with worlds in flux, adaptation, and how systems constrain and choreograph behaviour. Moving away from the traditional view of the body as sanctified, static vessel, Worth channels his own experience with fluctuating health concerns to investigate the temple as a body, suggesting that our infrastructural support systems are frail, living, and subject to illness and uncertainty. Informed by the visual language of sci-fi illustration and the intersection of organic form and architecture, Worth constructs vulnerable, absurdist, and unsettled microcosms built from discarded construction materials. 

Combining disparate elements into structural yet abstract ‘emerging realities’, Home Body reflects upon an inherent unruliness in the world, aiming to capture the tension between real and imagined spaces, monuments and ruins, and regeneration and mutation.  Providing a tactile counterpoint to our era’s increasing reliance on technology and the necessity of the handmade in a digital age, the series reflects upon the passage of time, action, and consequence - offering a space to contemplate discovery, play, and strategies of rebuilding—concepts that resist neat resolution and search for beauty found in acts of reinvention.