Chronic pain and illness have required of me a lived art practice, one that is made sustainable through permitting pain the space to show up as my subject, collaborator and constant studio companion. Working between image-making, sculpture, writing, installation and embodied movement, my practice is an emergent process of being with pain in material, seeking to share with it the agency to direct my making process. Challenging orthodox assumptions of pain as something to be suffered, my practice extends to queer and hold, through space and movement, a search for other ways to be with pain and illness.

Sam Davis (they/them) is an artist, writer, and educator living and working in Vancouver, British Columbia on the unceded territory of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations.