Nicola Turner is an artist known for creating large scale, visceral installations from wool and waste horsehair, often made in response to their surroundings. Her works touch upon the history and memory of materials and explore life and death, human and non-human, attraction and repulsion.
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Artist Statement for Warped and Wasted
‘Unknowns. Knowing the unknowns. Unknowing the knowns. Questioning the beginnings. Listening to the now. Imagining the ends. Toward an Elsewhere arose out of searching in the dark corners of the studio for existing hoarded, recycled, reused, scavenged and salvaged materials; materials used previously for apparel, bedding and furniture and, in that regard, alive with history. The work aims to provoke attention to embedded memories and the correspondences between materials. The work invites participation in acts of listening to past, present and future, examining the vital and thriving microcosmos of our lives, comprised of human and non-human agents, which functions mostly beyond our conscious contemplation.’
Details of individual work
Toward an Elsewhere, 2025
Materials: Mixed media including discarded garments, assorted fabrics, horsehair and wool
Dimensions: 140cm x 40cm x 400cm
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