Let us disturb… diagnosis/experience…trauma/visibility… subjectivity/objectivity…
(Observational note: autoethnographic engagement with psychiatric illness.)

Let us disorder…normalisation/deviation…authority/disobedience…illness/health…
(Observational note: Examines historical and cultural frameworks of classification.)

Let us disorganise… power/autonomy… competition/access…restriction/freedom…
(Observational note: Engages institutional systems of documentation and control.)

Let us disrupt …surveillance/invisibility…censorship/expression…containment/release…
(Observational note: Interrogates methods of observation, representation and control.)

Let us make… dance draw process empathise communicate connect sing create learn cry laugh adapt rest eat resist relate play understand empower love share experiment materialise dance make eat sing share process adapt rest play love connect empower
(Observational note: Situated within the medical humanities, exploring material-led approaches to language and knowledge, informed by drawing, printmaking, and installation, using found material, hospital records, microscopy, landscape, and embodied memory.)

About

Francesca Pease is an artist based in Cornwall. Her practice centres on psychiatric illness, working across drawing, printmaking and installation. Engaging with themes of relationality, representation and embodiment, she invites reflection on the complexities of illness and trauma while examining structures shaped by control, observation and authority.

Driven by material experimentation, her practice explores the entanglement of play and vulnerability, order and disorder. Through this, she interrogates systems of restriction, normalisation, and bureaucracy, seeking to open space for expanded understandings of illness.

She is interested in the intersection of art and medicine, exploring the many subjective facets of health, contributing to the field of medical humanities.