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Tracy Bickley is the artist behind Care Home for Punks, a body of work that fuses raw text, urban intervention, and social reflection. She can often be seen wandering the streets with cans of black paint, climbing over discarded furniture, and plastering her thoughts onto old mattresses abandoned by their owners.

For Bickley, the act is both protest and therapy - a release for the heart and soul.
The mattress becomes her canvas and metaphor. Worn, stained, and thrown away, it carries traces of intimacy, illness, rest, and neglect. Onto these surfaces she sprays phrases that are direct, humorous, defiant, or quietly tender. The black paint cuts sharply across faded fabric, creating a visual tension between vulnerability and voice.

Care Home for Punks questions what happens to identity as bodies age and subcultures mature. It challenges invisibility. The work exists somewhere between street art, conceptual text practice and photographic documentation. What begins as an impulsive act in a back alley becomes a carefully framed image, preserving the message long after the mattress itself has disappeared. At its core, the series is about reclaiming space - physically and emotionally - and giving language to thoughts that might otherwise remain unspoken.

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