Mick Hartley

The overall winner of the Wellcome Image Awards 2017:

The full title of the piece is Stickman – The Vicissitudes of Crohn’s (Resolution) by Spooky Pooka:

This image is part of a series called Stickman – The Vicissitudes of Crohn’s. Its images are based around the character Stickman, a proxy or alter ego of the artist, who suffers from Crohn’s disease. He is made of sticks rather than bones and references the associated symptoms of weight loss, the body’s fragility following a flare-up, and the abrupt, transformative nature of Crohn’s.