Bille M Vigne
Billie M. Vigne is an artist and metalsmith based in Margate, Kent. Billie’s work uses world-building and non-linear storytelling to articulate the notion of dwelling as an all-encompassing methodology, nurturing personal mythologies that draw parallels between the bed and the seashore as ‘the First and Last place’. Through installation, sound, performance, animation and an array of historical, artisanal and folk/vernacular craft techniques Billie’s works communicate the temperamental intricacies of chronic illness, orientating hand-making as a fundamental conduit for memorialising embodied experience in external objects.
Billie also runs the Beer Can Votive project @beercanvotives. BCV is a travelling forum of embossing workshops in which people make their own votive offerings from used aluminium drinks cans and offer them to communal shrines.