Elspeth Vince
About
Elspeth Vince (b.1993, London) is a British artist based in London.
Her practice is rooted in tension and instability, not in collapse itself, but in the feeling that collapse is possible.
The body is bound, contorted, and cramped, holding both tension and stillness. Figures twist into shapes that feel simultaneously alive and suspended, like a breath held too long. These gestures speak to constraint and ritual, how we honour, mourn, and move through what it means to be human.
In this constant tension between stillness and movement, the body resists containment. As figures dissolve and reassemble, caught between states of life and death, the frame itself becomes a threshold – revealing the shifting, entropic force of the body that defies resolution.
Through the intricacies of her own inner world and self-portraiture, she pushes at the edges of female identity, reclaiming the authorship of women’s bodies that Western culture long ascribed to male genius. Making this work now serves as a reminder that many of the struggles faced by women today have yet to be fully resolved.
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