Rhianna Hanworth’s sculptural practice explores what it means to have, or to be, a body. She works with hybrid and fragmented forms that disrupt function and familiarity, inviting viewers to reflect on their own embodiment. She considers the body inseparable from lived experience: at once material, social and in constant transformation.

Her work draws on metaphors of the prosthetic and the cyborg but resists techno-utopian fantasies of perfectibility. Instead, Rhianna is interested in limitations and the ways they anchor us to our bodies. She uses prosthetic-like forms to question how tools shape identity and desire. Fascinated by the space between body and object, her work functions as a bridge between the two, inviting both maker and viewer to experience a displacement of self.

Through processes of deconstruction and reimagining, she works to break down binaries between human and nonhuman, subject and object, body and thing. Using scale, material shifts and dysfunctional design, she unsettles expectations to cultivate more empathetic and collective understandings of the body.

Ultimately, her sculpture aims to evoke a visceral response: a mediated recognition of our own bodily limits and possibilities. By destabilising objects and their meanings, she invites viewers into a more fluid, imaginative relation with their own sense of self.