Arch of Solace | Carly Marchment | 1 x 1.4m | Original

Carly Marchment’s practice is grounded in portraiture and figurative painting, using oil and mixed media to explore the relationship between people and place while opening up honest conversations about disability, inaccessibility, and discrimination. Living with a progressive neuromuscular disease, Carly’s work is shaped by continual adaptation physically, emotionally, and creatively and she approaches these shifts as a powerful process of transformation rather than limitation. For Becoming, Carly joins the exhibition to share a deeply personal perspective on change: finding beauty and belonging through evolving capacity, experimenting with new ways of making, and allowing the work to hold both vulnerability and resilience. Her contribution invites viewers to sit with the reality of change and consider how we grow into ourselves through what we navigate, endure, and reimagine.